NOTICE: This program is only a preliminary draft. Final program may be subjected to changes.
NOTICE: Regular and Special Session oral presentations are 15min+5min Q/A each.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

November 6 (Monday)	November 7 (Tuesday)
08:30-08:40 | Welcome and introduction	09:00-10:20 | Special Session - Human centered physical and social interaction with robots
08:40-10:20 | Regular Session - Robot Control and Manipulation	10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break
10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break	10:50-11:50 | Keynote Speaker - Ciro Natale "The role of tactile sensing in human-robot interaction"
10:50-11:50 | Keynote Speaker - Oussama Khatib "Ocean One: A robotic avatar for Oceanic discovery"	11:50-12:50 | Regular Session - Learning II
11:50-13:10 | Regular Session - Shared Control and Teleoperation	12:50-14:00 | Lunch break
13:10-14:10 | Lunch break	14:00-15:20 | Regular Session - Human-Robot Collaboration
14:10-15:50 | Regular Session - Natural Human-Robot Interaction	15:20-15:30 | Closing
15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break	15:30-18:30 | Lab visit (PRISMA Lab and ICAROS Center)
16:20-17:20 | Keynote Speaker - Rachid Alami "On decisional abilities for a cognitive and interactive robot"
17:20-18:40 | Regular Session - Learning I
19:30-23:00 | Social Dinner

 

DETAILED PROGRAM

 

November 6 (Monday)

 

08:30-08:40 | Welcome and introduction

08:40-10:20 | Regular Session - Robot Control and Manipulation (Chair: Fanny Ficuciello)

Pietro Balatti, Luca Muratore, Luka Peternel, Enrico M. Hoffman, Nikos G. Tsagarakis and Arash Ajoudani
A manipulation framework for debris removal using WALK-MAN humanoid

Marco Monforte, Fanny Ficuciello and Bruno Siciliano               
Multifunctional principal component analysis for human-like grasping

Fabio Vigoriti, Fabio Ruggiero, Vincenzo Lippiello and Luigi Villani           
Tracking control of redundant manipulators with singularity-free orientation representation and null-space compliant behavior

Gianluca Garofalo and Christian Ott
Repetitive jumping control for biped robots via force distribution and energy regulation

Florian Stuhlenmiller, Gernot Perner, Stephan Rinderknecht and Philipp Beckerle
A stiffness-fault-tolerant control strategy for reliable physical human-robot interaction

10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break

10:50-11:50 | Keynote Speaker - Oussama Khatib "Ocean One: A robotic avatar for Oceanic discovery"

11:50-13:10 | Regular Session - Shared Control and Teleoperation (Chair: Fabio Ruggiero)

Firas A. Farraj, Riccardo Spica and Paolo Robuffo Giordano              
Human-subject evaluation of shared-control approaches for robotic telemanipulation

Andrea Passoni, Jacopo Buzzi and Elena De Momi     
Human-robot interaction in teleoperation: Stiffness modulation during a virtual ballistic task

Alejandro Gutierrez–Giles, Marco Arteaga–Perez and Pablo Sanchez–Sanchez
Time-delayed master–slave teleoperation based on a GPIO force estimator

13:10-14:10 | Lunch break

14:10-15:50 | Regular Session - Natural Human-Robot Interaction (Chair: Alberto Finzi)

Lorenzo Sabattini, Valeria Villani, Cristian Secchi and Cesare Fantuzzi   
A general approach to natural human-robot interaction

Mario Daniele Fiore, Federica Scazzola, Christian Scheurer, Shashank Sharma and Uwe E. Zimmermann  
Multi-task redundancy resolution for human-robot interaction on an industrial mobile manipulator

Roberto Meattini, Gianluca Palli and Claudio Melchiorri             
A sEMG-based control for elbow wearable assistive devices during lifting tasks

Filippo Arrichiello, Paolo Di Lillo, Daniele Di Vito, Gianluca Antonelli and Stefano Chiaverini
An assistive robot operated via a P300-based brain computer interface

Alessandro Spada, Marco Cognetti and Alessandro De Luca   
Locomotion and telepresence in virtual and real worlds

15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break

16:20-17:20 | Keynote Speaker - Rachid Alami "On decisional abilities for a cognitive and interactive robot"

17:20-18:40 | Regular Session - Learning I (Chair: Fanny Ficuciello)

Matteo Saveriano, Yuchao Yin, Pietro Falco and Dongheui Lee               
PI-REM: Policy Improvement with residual model learning

Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi and Vincenzo Lippiello     
Enhancing human-robot collaborative task execution via contact force classification

Matthieu Grard, Florian Sella, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming Chen and Romain Brégier    
Leveraging synthetic depth maps and fully convolutional networks for human-guided object segmentation

Fotios Dimeas, Filippos Fotiadis, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Antonis Sidiropoulos and Zoe Doulgeri   
Towards progressive automation of repetitive tasks through physical human-robot interaction

19:30-23:00 | Social Dinner

 

November 7 (Tuesday)

 

09:00-10:20 | Special Session - Human centered physical and social interaction with robots (Chairs: Fei Chen and Chenguang Yang)

Chunxu Li, Chenguang Yang, Yong Li and Fei Chen             
An enhanced teaching by demonstration system for a KUKA robot

Mohammad Arrfou, Boyang Gao and Fei Chen
Towards developing a portable GPU driven stereo vision system for robotics applications

Andrea Incerti Delmonte, Fei Chen, Boyang Gao and Quanbo Ge
A framework for dense semantic mapping using visual SLAM and semantic segmentation

Simone Varrasi, Santo Di Nuovo, Daniela Conti and Alessandro Di Nuovo        
Social robots as psychometric tools for cognitive assessment: a pilot test

10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break

10:50-11:50 | Keynote Speaker - Ciro Natale "The role of tactile sensing in human-robot interaction"

11:50-12:50 | Regular Session - Learning II (Chair: Fabio Ruggiero)

Oriane Dermy, François Charpillet and Serena Ivaldi
Multi-modal intention prediction with probabilistic movement primitives

Silvia Rossi, Luigi Bove and Giovanni Ercolano             
A deep learning approach for activity recognition and anomaly detection in the UPA4SAR project

Vito Papapicco, Andrea Parri, Elena Martini, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Simona Crea and Nicola Vitiello
Locomotion mode classification based on support vector machines and hip joint angles: a feasibility study for applications in wearable robotics

12:50-14:00 | Lunch break

14:00-15:20 | Regular Session - Human-Robot Collaboration (Chair: Alberto Finzi)

Takafumi Sekido, Ryosuke Sakamoto, Teppei Onishi and Hiroyasu Iwata            
Construction of a cooperative operation avatar robot system to enhance collective efficacy

Francesco Pezzuoli, Dario Corona, Andrea Cristofaro and Maria Letizia Corradini
Development of a wearable device for sign language translation

Marijke Bergman and Maikel Zandberg      
Close encounters of the fifth kind? Affective impact of speed and distance of a collaborative industrial robot on humans

Iveta Eimontaite, Ian Gwilt, David Cameron, Jonathan Aitken, Joe Rolph, Saeid Mokaram and James Law 
Dynamic graphical signage improves response time and decreases negative attitudes towards robots in human-robot co-working

15:20-15:30 | Closing

15:30-18:30 | Lab visit (PRISMA Lab and ICAROS Center)

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