Wednesday July 18th;
9h00-9h30: Registration and Welcome
coffee
Principled and Efficient Methods for Control and
Learning in Robot Teams and Humanoids
M.J. Mataric, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, USA
Coffee break
11h10-11h50: Control Architecture
Control of Movement time and sequential action through
attractor dynamics :
A simulation study demonstrating object interception
and coordination
G. Schöner, C. Santos
CNRS - Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives,
Marseille, France
Keep It Simple, Hybrid! -- A case Study in Autonomous
Office Courier Robot Control
A. Arghir, J. Hertzberg
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology,
Sankt Augustin, Germany
11H50-12h30: Multirobot Planning
Finding solvable priority schemes for decoupled path
planning techniques for teams of mobile robots
M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard
Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg,
Germany
A multi robot system of three manipulators with on-line
path planning abilities : some preliminary notions and Experiments
M. Mediavilla , J.C. Fraile
ETSII - University of Valladolid, Spain
Lunch break
14h-15h40: Robot Control
Classic and Robust PID Heading Control of an Unmanned
Robotic Airship
J. Carvalho, E. De Paiva, J. Azinheira, P. Ferreira,
J. Ramos, S. Bueno, M. Bergerman,
S. Maeta, L. Mirisola, B. Faria, A. Elfes
Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory-LRV/ITI, Campinas-SP,
Brazil
Avoiding self-occlusions and Preserving Visibility
by Path Planning in the Image Space
Y. Mezouar and F. Chaumette
IRISA, Rennes, France
Control aspects of maintaining non-holonomic robots
in geometric formation
A. Paulino, H. Araujo
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra,
Portugal
Tracking Mobile Robot Trajectories Inside a Feedback
Control Loop - Experimental Results
A. Steinicke1, J. Reuter2, S. Schönknecht3
1 Daimler Chrysler Research, Berlin, Germany
2 IAV GmbH, Berlin, Germany
3 TU-Berlin, Germany
Biomimetic Walking Robot Scorpion : Control and Modeling
B. Klaassen, R. Linnemann, D. Spenneberg, F. Kirchner
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology,
Sankt Augustin, Germany
Collective emergent robotics : Towards a design methodology
O. Labbani-Igbida
CREA, Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, Amiens,
France
Robotic Assembly of Naturally Varying Food Items via
Teaching by Example
T. G. Williams, J. J. Rowland, M. H. Lee
Department of Computer Science, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, U.K.
18h-19h30: Reception in the city
hall of Toulouse
Thursday July 19th;10h-10h40: 3D Modelling
Interactive tools for quality enhancement in 3D modelling
from reality
M. Ruggeri, P. Dias, V. Sequeira, J. G.M. Goncalves
European Commission-Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Range Image Registration by using an Edge-Based Representation
A.D. Sappa1, A. Restrepo-Specht2,
M. Devy2
1 RTS Advanced Robotics Ltd., Manchester,
UK
2 LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
3D reconstruction of a static indoor environment by
fusion of sonar and video data
J.M. Leiva, P. Martinez, E.J. Perez, C. Urdiales, F.
Sandoval
Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, University of
Malaga, Spain
Interactive reconstruction from an Omnidirectional
Image
J. Gaspar, E. Grossmann, J. Santos-Victor
Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior
Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
3-D Scene Reconstruction from Cylindrical Panoramic
Images
R. Bunschoten, B. Krose
Computer Science Institute, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Digital Elevation Map Building from Low Altitude Stereo
Imagery
S. Lacroix, I-K. Jung, A. Mallet
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Artificial Landmark Navigation System
I. Hallman, B. Siemiatkowska
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish
Academy, Warsaw, Poland
Vertical world feature detection and mapping using
stereo vision and accelerometers
J. Lobo1, C. Queiroz2, J. Dias1
1 Electrical Engineering Department, University
of Coimbra, Portugal
2 Informatics Engineering Department, Polytecnic
Institute of Tomar, Portugal
Selecting Landmarks for a Visual Based Navigation Task
R. Swain-Oropeza1, D. Burschka2,
D. Kriegman3, G. Hager2, M. Knapek4
1 Tec de Monterryey CEM, Computer Science,
Edo. de Mexico, Mexico
2 Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science,
Baltimore, USA
3 University of Illinois, Computer Science,
Urbana-Champaign, USA
4 Technical University of Munich, Computer
Science, Munich, Germany
Information Sampling for Optimal Image Data Selection
N. Winters1, J. Santos-Victor2
1 Department of Computer Science, University
of Dublin,
2 Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto
Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Analysis of two methods for the estimation of partial
3D velocity
N. Goncalves, H. Araujo
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra,
Portugal
How to self-calibrate a structured light sensor ?
D. Fofi1, E.M. Mouaddib1, J. Salvi2
1 CREA, University of Picardie Jules Verne,
Amiens, France
2 University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
Context-Driven Model Switching for Visual Tracking
H. Kruppa, M. Spengler, B. Schiele
Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision Group, ETH Zurich,
Switzerland
17h10-18.45h: Visit of the Robotics and Artificial
Intelligence Group
of LAAS-CNRS
19h15-20h30: River Boat trip on the Garonne
2030h-23h30: Conference Dinner
Hotel d'Assezat, in the city center
Friday July 20th;
9h-10h:
Invited Talk
Biological mechanisms for navigation, spatial orientation
and gaze control :
common principles with robotic systems
A. Berthoz, College de France, LPPA, Paris, France
10h00-10h40: Medical robotics
Biorobotic design criteria for innovative limb prosthesis
A. Rovetta, M. Canina, G. Campa, S. Della Santina
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Milan,
Italy
Design and control of a robotic assistant for laparoscopic
surgery
D.V.F. Munoz, J. Gomez-De-Gabriel, J. Fernandez-Lozano,
I. Garcia-Morales, R. Molina-Mesa,
C. Perez-del-Pulgar, J. Seron-Barba, M. Azouaghe
Instituto de Automatica y Robotica Avanzada de Andalucia,
University of Malaga, Spain
Navigation in Realistic Environment
G. Zunino, H. I. Christensen
Centre for Autonomous Systems, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Cooperative Localization and Map Building for Multi-Robot
Systems : a Set Membership Approach
M. Di Marco, A. Garulli, A. Vicino
University of Siena, Italy
Design of a Robust Real-Time Dynamic Localization System
for Mobile Robots
G. Borges, M.-J. Aldon
LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France
Real Time Self Localization Using a Single Frontal
Camera
F. Marando, M. Piaggio, A. Scalzo
DIST, University of Genova, Italy
Robot Motion Planning for Model Building under Perception
Constraints
B. Tovar-Lopez, R. Murrieta-Cid, C. Esteves-Jaramillo
ITESM, Campus Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
A Custom IR Scanner for Landmark Detection with the
Autonomous Sewer Robot MAKRO
E. Rome, H. Surmann, H. Streich, U. Licht, K.L. Paap
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology,
Sankt Augustin, Germany
Exploiting the physics : Doppler-based navigation with
a bat-inspired mobile robot
J.M. Carmena, J.C.T. Hallam
Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour, University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Sensor Fusion for Localizing a Mobile Robot Outside
of Buildings
M. Hassel*, J. Hertzberg
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology,
Sankt Augustin, Germany
* Current address : MZ robotics laboratory GmbH, Rheinbach,
Germany
Statistical environment representation for navigation
in natural environments
S. Rolfes, M.J. Rendas
I3S-CNRS,Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis,
France
Topological navigation and Qualitative localization
for indoor environment using multisensory
perception
P. Ranganathan1, J.B. Hayet2, M.
Devy2, S. Hutchinson1, F. Lerasle2
1 Beckman Institute at University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
2 LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Recognition of contexts with scanner-laser for mobile
robot navigation
R. Fernandez, A. Mandow, M.J. Lopez-Baldan, A. Garcia-Cerezo
University of Malaga, Spain
16h50-17h00: Closing session