European Robotics Symposium 2008 - EUROS 2008
EURON II Annual Meeting

Diplomat Hotel Prague * Czech Republic
EUROS 2008

EURON II
March 26 - 27, 2008 

March 28, 2008

 
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Program

March 26, 2008 Wednesday
09.30 - 13.30 EUROS 2008 Registration
10.00 - 12.30 Guided Tour of Prague (optional), info
13.30 - 13.40 EUROS 2008 Symposium Opening - Herman Bruyninckx, KUL, Libor Přeučil, CTU
13.40 - 14.05 Adaptive multiple resources consumption control for an autonomous rover
Simon Le Gloannec, Abdel Illah Mouaddib, François Charpillet
14.05 - 14.30 Adaptive Snake Robot Locomotion: A Benchmarking Facility for Experiments
Sigurd A. Fjerdingen, John. R. Mathiassen, Henrik Schumann-Olsen , Erik Kyrkjebø
14.30 - 14.55 Balancing the information gain against the movement cost for multi-robot frontier exploration
Arnoud Visser, Bayu A. Slamet
14.55 - 15.20 Constraint Based Object State Modeling
Daniel Göhring, Heinrich Mellmann, Hans-Dieter Burkhard
15.20 - 15.45 A COTS-based mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SR-H3) for security, environmental monitoring and surveillance operations: design and test
Giorgio Belloni, Michele Feroli, Antonio Ficola, Stefano Pagnottelli, Paolo Valigi
15.45 - 16.10 Grip Force Control Using Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Dexterous Handling
Norinao Watanabe, Goro Obinata
16.10 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 16.55 HNG: a robust architecture for mobile robots systems
Robin Jaulmes, Eric Moliné
16.55 - 17.20 Information Relative Map Going Toward Constant Time SLAM
Viet Nguyen, Roland Siegwart
17.20 - 17.45 Measuring motion expressiveness in wheeled mobile robots
João Sequeira
17.45 - 18.10 Multilayer Perceptron Adaptive Dynamic Control of Mobile Robots: Experimental Validation
Marvin K. Bugeja, Simon G. Fabri
18.10 - 18.35 Path Planning and Tracking Control for an Automatic Parking Assist System
Emese Szádeczky-Kardoss , Bálint Kiss
19.30 -  Meeting Point for Welcome Reception
20:00 Welcome Reception, info



March 27, 2008 Thursday
09.00 - 09.25 Performance Evaluation of Ultrasonic Arc Map Processing Techniques by Active Snake Contours
Kerem Altun, Billur Barshan
09.25 - 09.50 Rat's Life: a cognitive robotics benchmark
Olivier Michel, Fabien Rohrer, Yvan Bourquin
09.50 - 10.15 Reactive Trajectory Deformation To Navigate Dynamic Environments
Vivien Delsart, Thierry Fraichard
10.15 - 10.40 Recovery in Autonomous Robot Swarms
Damien Martin-Guillerez, Michel Banâtre, Paul Couderc
10.40 - 11.05 Robot force/position tracking on a surface of unknown orientation
Yiannis Karayiannidis, Zoe Doulgeri
11.05 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30 Keynote talk
Robots with Biological Brains and Humans with Part Machine Brains
Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, UK, http://www.reading.ac.uk
In this presentation a look is taken at how the use of implant and electrode technology can be employed to create biological brains for robots, to enable human enhancement .... more
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.25 Scalable Operators for Feature Extraction on 3-D Data
Shanmugalingam Suganthan, Sonya Coleman, Bryan Scotney
14.25 - 14.50 Stability of on-line and on-board evolving of adaptive collective behavior
Lukas König, Kristof Jebens, Serge Kernbach, Paul Levi
14.50 - 15.15 A Unified Framework for Whole-Body Humanoid Robot Control With Multiple Constraints and Contacts
Oussama Khatib, Luis Sentis, Jae-Heung Park
15.15 - 15.40 Visual Top-Down Attention Framework For Robots In Dynamic Environments
Ulrich Kaufman, Guenther Palm
15.40 - 16.05 Visual Topological Mapping
Karel Košnar, Tomáš Krajník, Libor Přeučil
16.05 - 16.25 Coffee Break
16.25 - 17.25 Poster session
17.25 - 18.25 Tutorial
Standardization in robotics: how can it help our research?
Martin Hägele, Robot Standards and Reference Architectures (RoSta), http://www.robot-standards.org
18.25 - 18.30 EUROS 2008 Closing session



March 28, 2008 Friday
08.30 EURON II Annual Meeting Registration - Non EUROS attendees only
09.00 - 09.10 Opening - Herman Bruyninckx, KUL, Libor Přeučil, CTU
09.10 - 10.15 Plenary session - Herman Bruyninckx, KUL
  • EURON - last year retrospection
  • Continuation of EURON activities (new EURON)
10.15 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 - 12.00 Keynote talk
ABB's view on future research in robotics
Soenke Kock (ABB Corporate Research)
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 - 15.15 Session I
15.15 - 15.35 Coffee Break
15.35 - 16:35 EURON Poster Session - Ph.D. Meets Industry Event
This session is especially dedicated to the European robotics industry which is looking to hire people with a high-level background in robotics, and, on the other hand, PhD students looking for challenging job opportunities in such companies. more
16.35 - 16.55 Presentation of Good Experimental Methodologies and Benchmarking SIG
16.55 - 17.10 Presentation of Cooperative Robotics SIG
17.10 - 17.30 Award Ceremony
17.30 - EURON II Summary - (end of EURON plenary session)

17.45 - 19:30 SIGs internal meetings
 
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