11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Workshop on humanoid service robot navigation in crowded and dynamic environments
During the Humanoids 2011 conference in Bled Slovenia, PAL Robotics is organizing a full day workshop! A great opportunity to meet PAL’s navigation team!
Date: October 26th, 2011 Bled, Slovenia
General Scope of the event
Humanoid service robotics is a challenging robotics application where the frontier of science meets that of technology. Safe navigation is a core skill these robots must meet in order to be able to deploy these technologies to the mass market. Recent advances in humanoid robot navigation, either wheeled or legged, have shown successful navigation in moderately complex environments. However, safe, reliable, long-term, robust navigation is still an open challenge to robotics scientists.
This workshop will discuss innovative solutions and show state of the art results that address the problem of humanoid robot navigation in dynamic and crowded human-like environments such as, office spaces, homes, shopping malls, etc. Some of the difficulties in solving this problem include safe obstacle avoidance in 3D, robust localization in dynamic environments, people-aware motion planning, and situation awareness; all of them guaranteeing systems integrity as well as human safety.
Main Topics
- Localization in real environments (highly dynamic and crowded)
- Gait and step planning
- Full body motion planning in crowded environments
- 3D collision avoidance
- Human-aware navigation
- Human-robot emphatic behaviours
- Semantic navigation
- Environment perception
Preliminary Program
Opening ceremony (morning)
Chairman: Ricardo Tellez from PAL Robotics
Session I (morning): Invited speakers
Chairman: Juan Andrade-Cetto
Talks to be confirmed
Session II (afternoon): REEM demonstration
Chairman: Luca Marchionni
REEM will perform a demonstration of its navigation abilities in crowded environments.
Organizers
Luca Marchionni
PAL Robotics,
+34 934 145 347
luca.marchionni@pal-robotics.com
Ricardo Téllez
PAL Robotics,
+34 934 145 347
ricardo.tellez@pal-robotics.com
Juan Andrade-Cetto
Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial
CSIC-UPC
+34 934010775
cetto@iri.upc.edu
Prospective Speakers
- Sebastien Lengagne (confirmed)
- Oliver Stasse (confirmed)
- Nikolaos Tsagarakis (confirmed)
- Kenji Hashimoto (confirmed)
- Ricardo Tellez (confirmed)
- Maren Bennewitz (confirmed)
- James Kuffner
- Oussama Khatib
- Kazuhito Yokoi
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