Robotics Programme.pdf

Registration and Coffee (Main Foyer)
10:30: Welcome and Introduction (G02)
10:45: Keynotes - Tactile Sensing and Manipulation (G02)
+ Nathan Lepora: Biomimetics & AI for tactile robots
+ Hongbin Liu: Intrinsic Tactile Sensing for deformable surfaces
+ Brice Denoun: Our path to robotic dexterous manipulation
12:00: Lunch (Main Foyer)
13:00: Tutorial - Deep-RL for Control (G02) by Jon Scholz
14:00: Poster Talks I (G02)
15:00: Coffee Break & Poster Interactive Session (G31)
15:45: Keynotes - Novel Manipulation Strategies (G02)
+ Edward Johns: Data-Efficient Deep Learning for Visual Manipulation
+ Nicolas Rojas: Beyond human manipulation - Rethinking robotic dexterous manipulation
+ Hussein Mnyusiwalla: A Benchmarking Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Robotic Pick-and-Place Systems
17:00: Laboratory Tours (1h30)
19:30: Workshop Dinner at Woodhouse Suite

Day 2

09:00: Poster Talks II (G02)
10:00: Coffee Break & Poster Interactive Session (G31)
10:45: Keynotes - Haptic-Guided and Semi-Autonomous Manipulation (G02)
+ Amir Ghalamzan: Haptic-guided teleoperation to enable predictive grasping
+ Pietro Valdastri: Lifesaving Capsule Robots
+ Aldo Faisal: TBA
12:00: Lunch (Main Foyer)
13:00: Tutorial - Human-Motor Control (G02)
+ Joseph Galea: The basics of human motor control
+ Xiuli Chen: The cost function during human motor control
+ Ioannis Delis: Computations in human sensorimotor control: Modularity & Active Sensing
14:20: Coffee Break (G31)
14:50: Keynotes - Physics-based and forceful manipulation (G02)
+ Niels Lohse: Learning Human robot collaboration using Ensemble machine learning
+ Mohan Sridharan: Variable impedance controllers for robot manipulation tasks
+ Matthew Howard: Transferring Impedance Behaviours Combining Human and Robot Best Practice
+ Mehmet Dogar & Luis Figueredo: Physical interaction with objects and humans
16:30: Closing Remarks (G02)

Speaker Bios

Nathan Lepora: Reader in Robotics at the University of Bristol
Hongbin Liu: Associate Professor at King's College London
Brice Denoun: PhD student at Queen Mary University of London
Jon Scholz: Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind
Edward Johns: Imperial College London
Nicolas Rojas: Imperial College London
Hussein Mnyusiwalla: Ocado Technology
Amir Ghalamzan: University of Lincoln
Pietro Valdastri: University of Leeds
Aldo Faisal: Imperial College London
Niels Lohse: Loughborough University
Mohan Sridharan: University of Birmingham
Matthew Howard: King's College London
* Mehmet Dogar & Luis Figueredo: University of Leeds