Explore Urban Robotics with our workshop at IROS 2015
Urban Robotics is a new challenging area of robotic applications, which will have an impact in key urban areas: Collaborative Society, Mobility, Information and communications technology, Energy and Environment. Robots will have an impact on the transportation of people and goods, urban services (like maintenance or cleaning), environment monitoring, road repairing and urban surveillance.
The workshop on Friday, 2nd October 2015 (location: hall 6), at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Hamburg will include a Key Note about the state of the art of Urban Robotics and presentations from selected invited speakers. From the Open Call for papers five selected papers will be presented during the workshop. The papers will be compiled in workshop proceedings and be distributed among the audience. We are also preparing a Special Issue on Urban Robotics in a journal indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
Moreover, we will present an overview of the ECHORD++ project and the current state of the Experiment and PDTI (Public end-user Driven Technological Innovation) calls.
Topics of interest for the workshop are:
- Navigation, planning, perception and control techniques in urban environments
- Social urban robots
- Urban manipulation
- Transportation of goods
- Autonomous mobility for people
- Monitoring, inspection and surveillance
- Repairing streets, sidewalks, etc.
- Urban cleaning
- Urban trees and plants maintenance
- Urban animals and pests control
- Underground: sewage cleaning, inspection and management systems
Programme for Friday, 2nd October 2015, location: hall 6
08:30 – 08:40 Workshop opening and welcome
Part I. Invited Talks
08:40 – 09:00 Alois Knoll and Marie‐Luise Neitz: Overview of the ECHORD++ project
and PDTI
09:00 – 09:30 Alberto Sanfeliu: Urban Robotics
09:30 – 10:00 Norihiro Hagita: Human‐Robot “Harmonious” Interaction
Considering Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Social
urban robots.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
Part II. Paper presentations
10:30 – 10:50 Edmundo Guerra, Yolanda Bolea, Rodrigo Munguia and
Antoni Grau: Human‐assisted mapping of urban
environments in a robotic framework
10:50 – 11:10 Aiko Dinale, David Gonzalez, Guillaume Trehard, Joshue
Perez Rastelli, Matteo Zoppi, Dimiter Zlatanov, Fawzi
Nashashibi and Rezia Molfino: Autonomous docking for a
novel fully‐electrical vehicle for urban freight transport
11:10 – 11:30 Cynthia Sung and Daniela Rus: Data‐Driven Task
Assignment for Multi‐Vehicle Package Delivery
11:30 – 11:50 F. Cavallo, R. Esposito, R. Limosani, A. Manzi,
R. Bevilacqua, E. Felici, F.Marcellini, P. Dario: On the use of
urban robots for ageing population: acceptability and
usability evaluation
11:50 – 12:10 Wiwei Huang, Xiaoli Meng, Usman Qayyum, Ning Wu,
Xiaojun Wu and Bingbing Liu: Autonomous Driving with
Jump‐Free GPS Localization and DDP Path Planner
12:10 – 12:30 Round Table
Organisers of the workshop: Alberto Sanfeliu, Antoni Grau, Ana Puig-Pey
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