sáb 02 janeiro 2021

ICRA 2021 ViTac workshop Program

ViTac 2021: Trends and Challenges in Visuo-Tactile Perception

Time: 9am-6pm (GMT+00), Friday 4th June 2021

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The workshop will take place online (live) via Zoom.

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Participation will be free of charge.

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All the following times are in GMT+00 Time. (Please double check the time as this may get confused with local summer time)

Time Speaker Title
Session 1: Theme 1 Tactile sensors for robot tasks
09:00 – 09:25 Shan Luo Opening and Welcome
09:25 – 09:30 Wiley Publisher (Sponsor) Introduction to the Advanced Intelligent Systems journal
09:30-10:20 Aude Billard (Keynote) Tactile information for robust in-hand manipulation
10:20-10:50 Harold Soh Learning and Perception with Event-based Tactile Sensors
10:50-11:20 Lorenzo Jamone Magnetic-based soft tactile sensors for robotic manipulation
11:20-11:40 Break 20-min break & poster session in gather.town
Session 2: Theme 2 The control and design of robotic visuo-tactile systems
11:40-11:50 Kaspar Althoefer
 Session introduction
11:50-12:20 Nathan Lepora
 Soft biomimetic optical tactile sensing for robot dexterity
12:20-12:50 Qiang Li Intelligent Tactile Robots: From Safe Interaction to Dexterous Manipulation
12:50-13:00 Spotlight talks
(3 mins each)
1. S. Funabashi, G. Yang, F. Hongyi, A. Schmitz, L. Jamone, T. Ogata and S. Sugano. Visualization of Tactile Features for Object Recognition with a Multi-Fingered Hand (12:50-12:52)
2. S. Katyara, F. Ficuciello, T. Teng, F. Chen, B. Siciliano, D. G. Caldwell. Intuitive Tasks Planning Using Visuo-Tactile Perception for Human Robot Cooperation (12:53-12:55)
3. F. Palermo, C. Oh, K. Althoefer, S. Poslad, I. Farkhatdinov. Investigation of images of cracks via graph theory for developing an optimal exploration algorithm for a robotic manipulator (12:56-15:58)
13:00-13:50 Break 50-min break & poster session in gather.town
Session 3: Theme 3 Visuo-tactile perception for robot manipulation
13:50-14:00 Gordon Cheng Session introduction
14:00-14:30 Matei Ciocarlie Towards dexterous manipulation with a tactile finger
14:30-15:20 Edward Adelson (Keynote) The Future of Camera-based Tactile Sensing
15:20-15:30 Spotlight talks
(3 mins each)		 4. J. Jiang, G. Cao, D. F. Gomes and S. Luo. Rapid Crack Reconstruction using Tactile Sensing and Vision (15:20-15:22)
5. S. J. Redmond, B. Xia, and H. Khamis. Real-time Friction Estimation for Grip Force Control (15:23-15:25)
6. A. N. Chaudhury, T. Man, W. Yuan, and C. Atkeson. Using collocated vision to improve tactile sensing (15:26-15:28)
15:30-15:50 Break 20-min break & poster session in gather.town
Session 4: Theme 4 Connecting vision and tactile sensing
15:50-16:00 Wenzhen Yuan Session introduction
16:00-16:30 Roberto Calandra Building an Ecosystem for Research on Touch Sensing
16:30-17:20 Roberta L. Klatzky (Keynote) Vision and Touch as Complementary Sensory Systems
Session 5:
17:20-17:50 Group discussion Breakout rooms
(welcome to suggest topics)
17:50-18:00 Wrap up

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