Program

The Pioneers poster session will be open to the public. The rest of the workshop is by invitation only.

Workshop Location: Georges-Köhler-Allee 105, Technische Fakultät, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110

Pioneers Poster Session Location: Georges-Köhler-Allee 101, Technische Fakultät, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110

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Pitch Talks 1: Multi-Agent and Interactive Systems


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira: Social Robots For Stimulating Children’s CreativityKim Baraka: Enabling Role-reversible Human-robot InteractionKathleen Fitzsimons: Information-based Control Of Human-robot MotionSandy Huang: Optimizing For Robot TransparencyKaja Kowalczewska: Dehumanization Of Warfare – Coding Law Of Armed ConflictsChristian Pek: Ensuring Motion Safety Of Autonomous Vehicles Through Online Fail-safe VerificationSarah M Sebo: Enhancing Social Collaboration In Human-robot TeamsYoonchang Sung: Multi-robot Coordination For Hazardous Environmental Monitoring

Pitch Talks 2: Perception and Learning


Zi Wang: Human Intelligence Assisted Robot LearningSomil Bansal: Safe, Learning-enabled Decision-making For Autonomous Navigation In Unknown EnvironmentsDarren Chan: Designing Robots To Visually Infer Salient Objects Without SupervisionS. Hamidreza Kasaei: Object Perception And Grasping In Open-ended DomainsChaitanya Mitash: Scene-level Pose Estimation For Multiple Instances Of Densely Packed ObjectsNoha Radwan: Multitask Learning For Reliable State EstimationStefan Schubert: A Neurologically Inspired Sequence Processing Model For Mobile Robot Place RecognitionDavid M Rosen: Towards Provably Robust Machine Perception

Pitch Talks 3: Manipulation, Planning, and Control


Daniel K Bruder: Leveraging Data And The Koopman Operator To Build Control-oriented Models Of Soft RobotsKhen Elimelech: Efficient Belief Space Planning Using Sparse ApproximationsDavid Fridovich-Keil: Toward Robust Autonomy In Uncertain Safety-critical SystemsShreyas Kousik: Provably Correct Operation Of Autonomous RobotsYu-Chi Lin: Humanoid Contact Planning For Multi-contact Motion Using Centroidal Dynamics PredictionValentin Peretroukhin: Improving Robot Localization Through Deep Probabilistic LearningSuresh Ramasamy: Geometry Of Locomotion