Research
Workshops
- Benchmarking of robotic grasping and manipulation: protocols, metrics and data analysis
- Advances in Space Robotics and Back to Earth
- New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Interactive Perception, Control, and Learning
- Increasing Safety for Human-Robot Interaction using Tactile and Proximity Perception
- WORKSHOP ON MANAGING DEFORMATION: A STEP TOWARDS HIGHER ROBOT AUTONOMY
- RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects
- Why robots fail to grasp? Failure causes in robot manipulation
- Increasing Safety for Human-Robot Interaction using Tactile and Proximity Perception
- SOCIAL AI FOR HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS
Robotic Assembly – Recent Advancements and Opportunities for Challenging R&D
Organizers (Keywords: Assembly; Sensor-based Control; Manipulation Planning):
- Joe Falco
- Elena Messina
- Maximo A. Roa
Experimental Robotic Grasping and Manipulation: Benchmarks, Datasets, and Competitions
Organizers:
- Yu Sun (University of South Florida, USA)
- Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
- Joe Falco (NIST, Japan)
- Berk Calli (Yale University, USA
Hands in the Real World: Connecting End-Effector Design, Sensitivity, and Behavior
Organizers:
- Hannah Stuart (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Manuel Giuseppe Catalano (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
- Francesca Negrello (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manipulation: Advancements and Challenges
Organizers:
- Valerio Ortenzi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Marco Controzzi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
- Naresh Marturi (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Yasemin Bekiroglu (Vicarious AI, USA)
- Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Andrea Cherubini (LIRMM - Universite de Montpellier, France
1st Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics
Organizers:
- Stefan Escaida Navarro (INRIA, France)
- Stephan Mühlbacher-Karrer (Joanneum Research - Robotics, Austria)
- Hubert Zangl (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria)
- Björn Hein (KIT, Germany), Hosam Alagi (KIT, Germany)
Examining Sensing Modalities for Robust and Dexterous Object Manipulation.
Organizers:
- Kaiyu Hang (Yale University, USA)
- Hao Ding (ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany)
- Miao Li (Wuhan University, China)
- Danica Kragic (KTH, Sweden)
- Aaron Dollar (Yale University, USA)
Task-Informed Grasping for Rigid and Deformable Object Manipulation
Organizers:
- Amir Masoud Ghalamzan Esfahani (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Farshid Alambeigi (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Sahba Aghajani Pedram (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Renaud Detry (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
- Veronica J. Santos (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Rustam Stolkin (University of Birmingham, UK)
Research
- Environmental Constraints Exploitation
- dataset for learning bimanual manipulation from human demonstration
- dataset of labelled videos of subjects performing activities of daily living
- U-Limb: A multi-modal, multi-center database on arm motion control
- The Acoustic Sensing Starter Kit
- 3D Granular RFT
- Benchmarking in manipulation research
- Handcorpus: an open access repository to collect human and robot hand data
- KIT Whole-Body Human Motion Database
- IEEE RA-L. Learning and Control for Robot Compliant Manipulation with Human in the Loop. 2021 - publication in 2022
- IEEE RA-L. Robotic Handling of Deformable Objects. 2021 – publication in 2022
- IEEE RA-L. Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Challenges and Progress. Publication: July 2021.
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Planning, Control and Perception of Soft Robotics End-Effectors. Published: July 2021.
- IEEE RAM. Emerging Paradigms for Robotic Manipulation: from the Lab to the Productive World. Published: June 2021.
- Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation. Published: February 2020.
- IEEE RA-L. Soft Haptic Interaction: Modeling, Design, and Application. Published 2019.
- Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Mapping Human Sensory-Motor Skills for Manipulation onto the Design and Control of Robots, 2019
- RAM Floating-base Manipulation 2018
- RAL Learning and Control for Autonomous Manipulation Systems: the Role of Dimensionality Reduction 2018
- RAL Aerial Manipulation 2018
- RAL Control and Motion Planning for Nonprehensile Dynamic Manipulation 2018
- Journal on Advanced Robotics: Special Issue on Advanced Manipulation– Survey Papers 2017