Activities

Special Issues

• Multimodal sensor-based robot control for interaction, soft manipulation and whole body control
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (2017)
  Editors: A. Cherubini (LIRMM), Y. Mezouar (UPB), D. Navarro-Alarcon (CUHK), J. A. Corrales Ramon (UPB)
• Whole-Body Control for Robots in the Real World
  International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR), 13(01), (2016)
  Editors: F.L. Moro (IIT), M. Gienger (Honda RI-EU), A. Goswami (Honda RI-US), O. Khatib (Stanford), E. Yoshida (AIST)
• Whole body control of contacts and dynamics for humanoid robots
  Autonomous Robots, (2016)
  Editors: S. Ivaldi (UPMC), J. Babic (Jozef Stefan Inst.), M. Mistry (Univ. of Birmingham), R. Murphy (Texas A&M)

Workshops

• The Mechatronics behind Force/Torque Controlled Robot Actuation: Secrets & Challenges
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016)
  Organizers: J. Malzahn (IIT), S. Kim (MIT), N. Paine (Univ. of Texas at Austin), N. Tsagarakis (IIT)
• Towards a unified workflow for multi contact motion on legged robots: Challenges in planning, optimization and control
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016)
  Organizers: S. Tonneau (LAAS-CNRS), T. Bretl (U. Illinois), N. Mansard (LAAS-CNRS), I. Mordatch (U. Berkeley)
• See, Touch, and Hear: 2nd Workshop on multimodal sensor-based robot control for HRI and soft manipulation
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016)
  Organizers: A. Cherubini (LIRMM), Y. Mezouar (UBP), D. Navarro-Alarcon (CUHK), J. A. Corrales Ramon (Google)
• Legged Robot Falling: Fall Detection, Damage Prevention, and Recovering Actions
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016)
  Organizers: D. Kanoulas (IIT), S. Yun (SRI), S.-H. Lee (KAIST)
• Robust Optimization-Based Planning and Control for Legged Robots
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016)
  Organizers: A. Del Prete (CNRS), A. Herzog (MPI), R. Tedrake (MIT)
• Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Data Fusion for State Estimation and Whole-Body Control of Humanoid Robots
  IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2015)
  Organizers: F.L. Moro (CNR), D. Kanoulas (IIT), J. Park (SNU), L. Sentis (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
• See and Touch: 1st Workshop on multimodal sensor-based robot control for HRI and soft manipulation
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015)
  Organizers: A. Cherubini (LIRMM), Y. Mezouar (Clermont Univ.), D. Navarro-Alarcon (CUHK), M. Prats (Univ. Jaume-I), J.A. Corrales Ramon (Clermont Univ.)
• Towards a Unifying Framework for Whole-body and Manipulation Control
  Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2015)
  Organizers: F. Nori (IIT), M.A. Roa (DLR), D. Pucci (IIT), E. Farnioli (IIT), M. Gabiccini (UniPi), A. Bicchi (IIT)
• "Get in touch!": tactile & force sensing for autonomous, compliant, intelligent robots
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)
  Organizers: Serena Ivaldi (TU Darmstadt), Lorenzo Jamone (IST), Bruno Siciliano (Univ. Napoli "Federico II")
• Redundancy, inequalities, and the mathematical tools to address them
  IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2014)
  Organizers: A. Escande (AIST), F. Flacco (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza"), N. Mansard (CNRS), L. Righetti (MPI)
• Whole-Body Control for Robots in the Real World
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014)
  Organizers: F.L. Moro (IIT), M. Gienger (Honda RI-EU), O. Khatib (Stanford), E. Yoshida (AIST)