Workshops and Tutorials

ICRA 2010 features 28 full-day workshops, 9 half-day workshops, 1 full-day tutorial, and 5 half-day tutorials scheduled on Monday, May 3, 2010 and Friday, May 7, 2010. The rooms, time, durations, titles, and organizers are given in the tables below (* indicates the corresponding organizer).

Coffee will be available during coffee breaks (10:30 am – 11:00 am and 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm) in the Egan Center Street Level, main lobby, and the Dena’ina Center second floor lobby.

Lunch is not included in the registration. The participants should make their own lunch arrangements.

Monday Full Day (9:00am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-5:30pm)

Egan Center Lower Level Room 14 W1-MoF Workshop on the Role of Experiments in Robotics Research Raj Madhavan, John Hallam, Angel P. del Pobil, Fabio Paolo Bonsignorio*
Dena’ina Center Kahtnu 1 W2-MoF Workshop on Best Practice Algorithms in 3D Perception and Modeling for Mobile Manipulation Radu Bogdan Rusu, Gary Bradski, Andreas Nuechter, Alexey Zakharov*
Dena’ina Center K’enakatnu Boardroom W3-MoF Workshop on Signals Measurement and Estimation Techniques Issues in the Micro/Nano-World Cédric Clévy*, Micky Rakotondrabe, Nicolas Chaillet
Dena’ina Center Tubughnenq’ 3 W4-MoF Workshop on Meso-Scale Robotics for Medical Interventions Jaydev P. Desai*, Arianna Menciassi
Dena’ina Center Tubughnenq’ 4 W5-MoF Workshop on Representations for Object Grasping and Manipulation Danica Kragic*, Tamim Asfour
Dena’ina Center Tubughnenq’ 5 W6-MoF Workshop on Search and Pursuit/Evasion in the Physical World: Efficiency, Scalability, and Guarantees Geoffrey Hollinger*, Volkan Isler, Timothy H. Chung
Egan Center Street Level Room Cook W7-MoF Workshop on Micro-Nano Robotics and New Evolution Fumihito Arai*, Masahiro Nakajima*, Ari Requicha, Nicolas Chaillet, Sergej Fatikow, Toshio Fukuda
Egan Center Lower Level Room 1 W8-MoF Workshop on Modular Robotics: State of the Art Kasper Stoy*, Wei-Min Shen, Radhika Nagpal
Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12 W9-MoF Workshop on Formal Methods for Robotics and Automation Hadas Kress-Gazit*, Ufuk Topcu, Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn
Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10 W10-MoF Workshop on Mutimodal Human-Robot Interfaces Jose M. Azorin*, Jose Luis Pons
Egan Center Lower Level Room 5/6 W11-MoF Workshop on New Variable Impedance Actuators for the Next Generation of Robots Albu-Shaeffer, Bicchi, Vanderborght
Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga W12-MoF Workshop on Achieving Robust, Compliant, Interactive Humanoid Robots via Active Force Control Michael Mistry*, Jonas Buchli, Luis Sentis, Sang-Ho Hyon
Dena’ina Center Kahtnu 2 W13-MoF Workshop on Snakes, Worms and Catheters: Continuum and Serpentine Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery Pierre Dupont*, Mohsen Mahvash
Egan Center Lower Level Room 4 W14-MoF Planetary Rovers Workshop Richard Volpe*
Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8 W15-MoF Workshop on Softening Rehabilitation Robotics Eduardo Rocon*, Jose Luis Pons
Egan Center Lower Level Room 3 W16-MoF Workshop on Communication, Control, and Perception for Teams of Small Robots Brian Sadler*, Nathan Michael, Yasamin Mostofi

Monday Morning, Half Day (9:00am-12:30pm)

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13 W17-MoA Workshop on Innovative Robot Control Architectures for Demanding (Research) Applications – How to Modify and Enhance Commercial Controllers Daniel Kubus*, Klas Nilsson, Rolf Johansson
Egan Center Lower Level Room 2 T1-MoA Tutorial on Kinematic Information Theory Gregory Chirikjian*
Egan Center Second Level Room Boardroom W18-MoA Workshop on the European Effort to Strengthen Academia-Industry Collaboration Alois Knoll, Bruno Siciliano, Reinhard Lafrenz*

Monday Afternoon, Half Day (2:00am-5:30pm)

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13 W19-MoP Workshop on Robotics Research Towards Better Quality of Life Imin Kao*, Makoto Kaneko
Egan Center Lower Level Room 2 W20-MoP Workshop on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing and Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems Yan Meng*, Yaochu Jin

Friday Full Day (9:00am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-5:30pm)

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook W21-FrF Workshop on Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Blake Hannaford, Ron Alterovitz*, M. Cenk Cavusoglu, Ken Goldberg
Dena’ina Center Kahtnu 2 W22-FrF Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-robot Autonomy Sameera Poduri*, Volkan Isler, Andreas Terzis, James McLurkin, Daniela Rus, Mac Schwager
Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8 W23-FrF Workshop on Micromanipulation and Characterization on Biological Cells Pasi Johannes Kallio, Mehdi Boukallel*
Egan Center Lower Level Room 2 W24-FrF Workshop on Robotics and Intelligent Transportation System Philippe Martinet*, Ming C. Lin, Christian Laugier, Urbano Nunes
Egan Center Lower Level Room 14 W25-FrF Fifth Full-day Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR-V) Davide Brugali*, Christian Schlegel, Azamat Shakhimardanov
Dena’ina Center Tubughnenq’ 5 W26-FrF Workshop on Mobile Microrobots Bradley Kratochvil*
Dena’ina Center Tubughnenq’ 4 W27-FrF Workshop on Robotics and Automation Technologies for Energy and Security Applications Lixin Dong*, Toshio Fukuda
Dena’ina Center Tubughnenq’ 3 W28-FrF Workshop on Mobile Manipulation Patrick Pfaff*, Wolfram Burgard, Kris Hauser, Sachin Chitta, Oliver Brock
Dena’ina Center K’enakatnu Boardroom W29-FrF Workshop on Stochasticity in Robotics & Biology Harry Asada, Gregory Chirikjian, M. Ani Hsieh*
Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10 W30-FrF Workshop on Interactive Communication for Autonomous Intelligent Robots (ICAIR): “Making robots articulate what they understand, intend, and do.” Marc Hanheide*, Hendrik Zender, Geert-Jan Kruijff
Egan Center Lower Level Room 4 W31-FrF ICRA 2010 Robot Challenge Event: Outcomes and Future Directions William Smart, Raj Madhavan*, Stephen Balakirsky
Egan Center Street Level Room La Perouse T2-FrF Tutorial on ROS: from Nodes and Messages to Sensing, Planning, and Control Brian Gerkey*, Gary Bradski, Ken Conley, Morgan Quigley
Egan Center Lower Level Room 5/6 W32-FrF Workshop on Omnidirectional Robot Vision Emanuele Menegatti*, Tomas Pajdla

Friday Morning, Half Day (9:00am-12:30pm)

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3 W33-FrA Workshop on Advanced Surgical Service Robotics in the European Union 6th and 7th Framework Programs Elena De Momi*, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Egan Center Lower Level Room 13 W34-FrA Workshop on Networked and Mobile Robot Olfaction in Natural, Dynamic Environments Amy Loutfi*, Achim, J. Lilienthal
Egan Center Second Level Room Boardroom T3-FrA Tutorial on Robots for Children with Special Needs: Technology and Design Challenges for an Effective Integration in Therapeutic and Educational Environments Ben Robins*, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Gernot Kronreif, Patrizia Marti
Egan Center Lower Level Room 1 W35-FrA Workshop on Guaranteeing Safe Navigation in Dynamic Environments Thierry Fraichard*, James Kuffner

Friday Afternoon, Half Day (2:00am-5:30pm)

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3 W36-FrP Workshop on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robots for an Aging Society Michelle J. Johnson*, Loredana Zollo, Kazuyoshi Wada
Dena’ina Center Kahtnu 1 W37-FrP Workshop on RoboEarth Marinus Jacobus Gerardus van de Molengraft*, Oliver Zweigle, Raffaello D'Andrea
Egan Center Lower Level Room 13 T4-FrP Tutorial on Computational Geometry Algorithms for Robot Manipulators, with Applications Ileana Streinu
Egan Center Second Level Room Boardroom T5-FrP Tutorial on Robot Learning from Demonstration Sonia Chernova*, Brenna Argall, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz
Egan Center Lower Level Room 1 T6-FrP Tutorial on Real-Time Planning in Dynamic and Partially-Known Domains Maxim Likhachev*, Sven Koenig