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International Expert Days

Program*


Location: SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG
Wilhelm-Maybach-Str. 3
74336 Brackenheim-Hausen
Germany

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

07:00 p.m. Welcome Reception

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

08:30 – 09:15 a.m. Registration & coffee
09:15 – 09:25 a.m. Welcome by Henrik Schunk
09:25 – 09:45 a.m. Introduction by Martin Hägele
  SESSION 1
09:45 – 10:15 a.m. Prof. Henrik I. Christensen
Reshaping robotics to address new opportunities
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Prof. Markus Schwarz / Dr. Robert Boesecke
Industrial robot and custom made solutions for orthopaedic and trauma / Computer aided surgery research projects at the University Hospital Heidelberg
10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Dr. Marc Ronthaler
Mobile robots are actors in the internet of things
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Florian Weißhardt
Care-O-bot-Research: Providing robust robotics hardware to an open source community
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Sorin Grigorescu
FRIEND – Robust machine vision
in assistive robotics tasks
12:30 – 02:00 p.m. Lunch & Exhibition
  SESSION 2
02:00 – 02:30 p.m. Prof. Bruno Siciliano
Fast visual grasp of unknown objects
with a multi-finger hand
02:30 – 03:00 p.m. Thomas Haase
Intelligent control and reactive grasping
for multi-finger grippers
03:00 – 03:30 p.m. Prof. Rezia Molfino
Robotic handling of limp, soft, near 2D material
03:30 – 04:00 p.m. Coffee break
04:00 – 04:30 p.m. Prof. Darius Burschka
GRASP – Cognitive grasping through emulation, introspection and surprise
04:30 – 05:00 p.m. Dr. Stefano Saliceti / Dr. Ryad Chellali
Environment for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of grasping eff ectiveness using embedded sensory feedback / Mapping human hand motion to 3-finger robotic hand – preliminary results
05:00 – 06:30 p.m. Discover SCHUNK (optional)
06:30 p.m. Get-together party

Thursday, February 25, 2010

09:00 – 09:15 a.m. Recap Day 1 by Martin Hägele
  SESSION 3
09:15 – 09:45 a.m. Prof. Antonio Bicchi
Variable impedance actuators for adaptive robotics
09:45 – 10:15 a.m. Sami Haddadin
Next Generation Robots: From robotic co-workers to intrinsic compliance
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Eric Berger
ROS and PR2 - Platforms for personal robotics
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Dr. Danijela Ristic
RoboWalker – A mobile robot-assisted gait rehabilitation system
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Prof. Mike Stilmann
Robotics and intelligent machines
12:00 – 01:15 p.m. Lunch & Exhibition
  SESSION 4
01:15 – 01:45 p.m. Rainer Bischoff
Towards closer academia-industry cooperation and faster technology transfers in robotics
01:45 – 02:15 p.m. Thomas Bömer
Safety of collaborative robots in industry
02:15 – 02:45 p.m. Diego Compagna
The insertion of service robots in environments of high social complexity
02:45 – 03:00 p.m. Coffee break
03:00 – 03:30 p.m. Dr. Reinhard Lafrenz
ECHORD – European clearing house for open robotics development
03:30 – 04:00 p.m. Prof. Michael Hofbaur
Modular Machines – reconfigurable
mobile robots for research and education
04:00 p.m. Close-up & conclusion

Lectures and discussions will be held in English.


*Preliminary program: Subject to change without notice.

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