Activities

Name of grant: Travel grant for accepted paper

Name of recipient: Oliver Lemke

• ICRA 2022: 2nd Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects. Organized by Martina Lippi, Daniel Seita, Michael C. Welle, Hang Yin, Danica Kragic, Alessandro Marino, David Held, Yiannis Karayiannidis.
• ICRA 2022 Tutorial: Tools for Robotic Reinforcement Learning. Organized by Jelle Luijkx, Bas Van der Heijden, Antonin Raffin, Jens Kober.
• IROS 2021: Impact Aware Robotics. Organized by Yan Gu, Alessandro Saccon, Abderrahmane Kheddar.
• ICRA 2021: Bimanual Manipulation: Learning, Planning and Control. Organized by Fei Chen, Miao Li, Sylvain Calinon, Huan Tan, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yunhui Liu.
• ICRA 2021: Robot learning in real-world applications: beyond proof of concept. Organized by Andrej Gams, Takamitsu Matsubara, Anna Valente, Dikai Liu, Kazuhiro Kosuge.
• ICRA 2021: Learning for Caregiving Robots. Organized by Zackory Erickson, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Charles C. Kemp, Yiannis Demiris, Carme Torras, Tomohiro Shibata.
• ICRA 2021: Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects. Organized by Anastasiia Varava, Hang Yin, Michael C. Welle, Rika Antonova, Florian T. Pokorny, Danica Kragic, Yiannis Karayiannidis, Ville Kyrki, Martina Lippi, Alessandro Marino, Julia Borras, Guillem Alenya.
• ICRA 2021: Recent advances in MPC and RL for legged robots. Organized by Majid Khadiv, Farbod Farshidian, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti.
• ICRA 2021: Machine Learning for Motion Planning. Organized by Xuesu Xiao​, Ahmed H. Qureshi​, Anastasiia Varava​, Michael Everett, Michael C. Yip, Peter Stone​.
• ICRA 2021: Connected Devices for Aggregating Distributed Benchmark Performances. Organized by Peter So, Joe Falco, Adam Norton, Sami Haddadin.
• ICRA 2021: Task-Informed Grasping: Agri-Food manipulation (TIG-III). Organized by Sariah Mghames, Tommaso Pardi, Fumiya Iida, Mehmet Dogar, Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani.
• ICRA 2021: Bridging the Gap between Data-driven and Analytical Physics-based Grasping and Manipulation II. Organized by Yasemin Bekiroglu, Marc Deisenroth, Florian Pokorny, Naresh Marturi, Miao Li, Yiannis Karayiannidis, Robert Platt.
• IROS 2020: Bringing Geometric Methods to Robot Learning, Optimization and Control. Organized by Noémie Jaquier, Leonel Rozo, Søren Hauberg, Hans-Peter Schröcker, Suvrit Sra.
• IROS 2020: Managing Deformation: A Step Towards Higher Robot Autonomy. Organized by Jihong Zhu, Andrea Cherubini, David Navarro-Alarcon, Claire Dune.
• IROS 2020: Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration: Opportunities and Challenges. Organized by Wansoo Kim, Luka Peternel, Arash Ajoudani, Eiichi Yoshida.
• IROS 2020: Learning impedance modulation for physical interaction: Insights from humans and advances in robotics. Organized by Giuseppe Averta, Franco Angelini, Meghan E. Huber, Jongwoo Lee, Manolo Garabini, Matteo Bianchi.
• IROS 2020: New horizons of Robot Learning – from industrial challenges to future capabilities. Organized by Kim Daniel Listmann, Elmar Rueckert.
• IROS 2020: Trends and advances in machine learning and automated reasoning for intelligent robots and systems. Organized by Abdelghani Chibani, Craig Schlenoff, Yacine Amirat, Shiqi Zhang, Jon-Hwan Kim, Ferhat Attal.
• ICRA 2020: Emerging Data Association Techniques in Robotics and Computer Vision. Organized by Kaveh Fathian, Jonathan How, Alec Koppel, Ethan Stump, Roberto Tron.
• ICRA 2020: Shared Autonomy: Learning and Control. Organized by Mario Selvaggio, Marco Cognetti, Serena Ivaldi, Bruno Siciliano.
• ICRA 2020: Shaping the quality metric of a grasp with the manipulation task: grasping as a sub-action of object manipulation. Organized by V. Ortenzi, T. Pardi, M. Controzzi, F. Cini, M. Roa, M. Bianchi, P. Corke, J. Leitner.
• ICRA 2020: Interactive Robot Learning. Organized by Carlos Celemin Paez, Harish Ravichandar, João Silvério, Jens Kober, Maya Cakmak, Sonia H Chernova, Sylvain Calinon.
• ICRA 2020: Learning of Manual Skills in Humans and Robots. Organized by Aude Billard, Dagmar Sternad.
• ICRA 2020: Towards Curious Robots: Modern Approaches for Intrinsically-Motivated Intelligent Behavior. Organized by Soshi Iba, Matt Barnes, Heni Ben Amor, Joshua Tenenbaum.
• ICRA 2020: Brain-PIL2020 – New Advances in Brain-Inspired Perception, Interaction and Learning in Robotics. Organized by Tansu Celikel, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, David Filliat, Pablo Lanillos, Mohsen Kaboli.
• RO-MAN 2019: TransLearn: Robot Skill Transfer from Simulation to Real World Deployment in Manufacturing Industries and Warehouses. Organized by Daniel Braun, Manuel Kaspar, Jonas Kiemel, Swagat Kumar, Laxmidhar Behera, Pascal Meißner, Rajesh Sinha.
• Humanoids 2019: New Challenges in Humanoid Grasping and Manipulation. Organized by Cosimo Della Santina, Matteo Bianchi, Yu Sun.
• IROS 2019: Different approaches, the same goal: Autonomous object manipulation. Organized by Giulia Vezzani, Lorenzo Natale, Valerio Ortenzi, Tamim Asfour, Danica Kragik, Peter Corke.
• IROS 2019: Open-Ended Learning for Object Perception and Grasping: Current Successes and Future Challenges. Organized by Hamidreza Kasaei, Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani.
• IROS 2019: Progress in Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration. Organized by Wansoo Kim, Arash Ajoudani, Luka Peternel, Dana Kulić, Eiichi Yoshida.
• IROS 2019 Tutorial: SIGVerse: Cloud-based VR platform for Human-Robot Interaction. Organized by Tetsunari Inamura, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshiaki Mizuchi.
• IROS 2019: Workshop on Deep Probabilistic Generative Models for Cognitive Architecture in Robotics. Organized by Takato Horii, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Tetsunari Inamura, Lorenzo Jamone, Takayuki Nagai, Yiannis Demiris.

The technical committee regularly organizes special sessions associated with the “Robot learning” RAS keyword. If you want your paper to be considered for such a session and have used the above keyword in your submission, please forward an email to the TC co-chairs (contact info at: http://www.ieee-ras.org/robot-learning/contact). The technical committee will not be involved in the reviewing process but will organize the session based on the list of accepted submissions with this keyword.

• ICRA 2022: Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation. Organized by Lin Shao, Danica Kragic, Hui Li, Quang-Cuong Pham, Vikash Kumar.
• NeurIPS 2021: Physical Reasoning and Inductive Biases for the Real World. Organized by Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Rika Antonova, Kevin Smith, Hsiao-Yu Tung, Florian Shkurti, Christin Jeannette Bohg, Josh Tenenbaum.
• RSS 2021: RSS Pioneers Workshop. General Chairs: Andrea Bajcsy, Georgia Chalvatzaki. Program Committee Chairs: Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Rika Antonova.
• RSS 2021 Tutorial: End-to-end GPU-accelerated Learning and Control for Robotics with Isaac Gym at the Robotics. Organized by Viktor Makoviychuk, Viktor Makoviychuk, Viktor Makoviychuk, Rika Antonova, Yuke Zhu, Josiah Wong, Josiah Wong.
• RSS 2021, 2020: Workshop on Visual Learning and Reasoning for Robotics. Organized by Kuan Fang, David Held, Yuke Zhu, Dinesh Jayaraman, Animesh Garg, Lin Sun, Yu Xiang, Greg Dudek.