IROS2005  Workshop on

Mobile Manipulators:

Basic Techniques, New Trends & Applications

August/ 2/ 2005

ORGANIZERS

 

 

Pedro J Sanz

Jaume-I University, Spain

sanzp@icc.uji.es

Markus Vincze

T. Univ. of Vienna, Austria

vincze@acin.tuwien.ac.at

Raul Marín

Jaume-I University, Spain

rmarin@icc.uji.es

OUTLINE

The intention of organizers is to present a half-day Workshop in the field of “Mobile Manipulators”. After a successful experience organizing a Summer School supported by EURON (i.e. European Robotics Research Network), in Benicassim, Spain (http://ciclop.act.uji.es/Euron04/) within the same topics, we think is time to go beyond the European limits and promote, in an open international scenario, the discussion about this very active field on robotics. Thus, the aim is to present and discuss some of the most important disciplines currently related to mobile manipulators concerning both, universities and industry domains, providing a forum of discussion, exchange, and co-operation within the scope of the international robotics community. Among the different topics related to this field, those concerning with basic techniques, including data fusion, perception-action integration, kinematic foundations, etc., will be discussed. And finally, real applications with different kind of service robots will be presented, including human-robot interaction skills as an emergent issue to be considered.

TENTATIVE SPEAKERS

*     Oussama Khatib (Stanford University, USA)

*     Axel Gräser (Universität Bremen, Germany)

*     Marcus Vincze (Techical University of Vienna, Austria)

*     Danica Kragic (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

*     Gernot Fink (Bielefeld University, Germany )

*     Jorge M. Dias (ISR, Coimbra University, Portugal)

*     Pedro J Sanz (RI-Lab, Jaume-I University, Spain)