RoboTac2019: New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Learning in Robotics: Emerging Materials and Technologies for Manipulation International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2019) Macau, China, November 4, 2019 |
Conference website | https://robotac19.aau.at |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotac2019 |
Submission deadline | September 1, 2019 |
Notification of Acceptance | September 10, 2019 |
Camera-Ready Deadline | September 20, 2019 |
Objectives
The sense of touch is a crucial capability for us to cope with manipulation related challenges in everyday life. It enables grasping, manipulation, learning, and decision-making based on the information we get from the hundreds of mechanoreceptors distributed over our skin. This sense of touch is a capability, which robotic systems of the future need to provide in order to be able to safely collaborate and physically interact with humans. Tactile sensing is also essential to perform a variety of other tasks including industrial applications, consumer services, and other highly dynamic environments such as assistance and care for elderly, housekeeping, etc.
For many such applications, tactile sensation, perception, and learning play a crucial role. Soft, compliant, and highly integrated systems, often also suitable for large areas (sensor skins), are becoming increasingly relevant and are considered the future of robotic manipulation and interaction. These systems provide the necessary prerequisites for ubiquitous robotics and the integration of tactile sensors into existing robotic systems. This enables safe interaction and co-existence between humans and robots including novel assistive robotic devices. Thus, this year’s workshop puts an emphasis on tactile sensing and the development of sensor devices and integration strategies based on conformal and compliant approaches.
Similar to the sense of touch in humans, robot sensation and the resulting capabilities do not end at the fingertip. Rather, robot sensation can be viewed as a complex process which is based on the interplay of a variety of components.
In our current workshop, we are focusing mainly on new advances in materials and technologies in tactile sensing with the application in grasp and manipulation of soft and deformable objects.
In this workshop we bring together well-established speakers as well as young talents across all technical disciplines that tactile sensing comprises. We provide a platform for researchers working in diverse fields of robotics such as material and technology development, perception, haptics and also high level tasks such as manipulation strategies and learning, to get an insight into the vast expanse of work done in the respective fields. The idea is to connect excellent researchers from different domains to foster fresh ideas through interdisciplinary discussions while paving the way for future collaborations.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions regarding any robotics application where tactile sensing modalities are used. As we aim to encourage meaningful discussion in the tactile perception and learning domain, work that is unpublished, recently published or under review can be accepted for presentation depending on the novelty, significance and contributions of the work to the workshop theme.
We solicit contributions in the form of extended abstracts (min 2 pages, max 4 pages) in IEEE paper format (author information available here), to be presented at the workshop as posters. Outstanding contributions will be selected for oral presentations.
Accepted papers and eventual supplementary material will be made available on the workshop website. However, this does not constitute an archival publication and no formal workshop proceedings will be made available, meaning contributors are free to publish their work in archival journals or conference.
Please submit your contribution via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotac2019
List of Topics
Human Sense of Touch
- Touch physiology from skin to brain
- Haptic Perception
- Action and Perception Loop
- Perception for Learning
Tactile Sensing Technologies and Materials
- Conformable and compliant materials
- Features enabled by conformable sensors
- Biomimetics
- Sensor effects
- Integration and read-out strategies
- Self-healing properties and strategies
- Sensor skins: design, fabrication and integration strategies
- Integration strategies for sensors in robotics
- Enabling technologies for fully integrated robotic systems
Visio-Tactile Exploration, Interaction, & Learning
- Exploitation of contact constraints
- Novel contact models
- Object perception for the exploitation of contact
- Tactile information processing
- Tactile feature extraction / feature learning
- Tactile-based object modeling
- Tactile object localization
- Tactile shape reconstruction and recognition
- Tactile object classification
- Tactile exploration
- Trends in combining of vision and touch sensing
- Roles of vision and touch sensing in different object perception tasks
- Modeling and representation of sensing modalities
- Integration of visio-tactile sensing modalities
Visio-Tactile Grasp and Manipulation
- Linear/rotational slip detection
- Grasping planning
- Grasp stability assessment
- In-hand/whole body manipulation
- Tactile planning interplay between touch sensing and vision
- Tactile knowledge/skill transfer
- Tactile transfer learning
- Soft manipulation
- The meaning and function of different sensing modalities in object manipulation
- Sensing and planning in object manipulation
- Multi-robot manipulation and coordination
- Control strategy for object manipulation and collaborative assembly
- Learning object manipulation skills from human demonstration
- Novel approaches to grasp and manipulation planning
- Whole-body, multi-contact planning and control
- Design and characterization of contact-exploiting, compliant hands
Invited Speakers
Human Sense of Touch
- Dr. Lynette Jones , Sensor Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
- Prof. Etienne Burdet, Human Robotics Lab, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK (Confirmed)Tactile Sensing Technologies and Materials
Visio-Tactile Sensing Technologies
- Prof. Takao Someya, Riken Center for Emergent Matter Science and University of Tokio, Japan
- Prof. Ravinder Dahiya, leader of Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies, University of Glasgow, UK
- Dr. Benjamin Tee, The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapor
- Prof. Michael Dickey, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, US
- Prof. Dae-Hyeong Kim, Translational Flextronics Group, Seoul National University, South Korea
Visio-Tactile Perception, Iteraction, and Learning
- Prof. Bruno Siciliano Director of PRISMA Lab and ICAROS Center Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Italy
- Prof. Charles Kemp, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, US
- Dr. Hongbin Liu Center for Robotics Research, King's College London, UK
- Prof. Hyungpil Moon Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
- Dr. Michael Wurtenberger BMW Research Germany
Visio-Tcatile Tactile Grasp & Manipulation
- Prof. Oliver Brock Robotics and Biology Lab, Department of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, TU Berlin, Germany
- Prof. Antonio Bicchi, Bioengineering and Robotics Research Centre, University of Pisa, Italy
- Prof. Alberto Rodriguez Garci Prof. Robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
- Prof. Alexander Schmitz Prof. at the Sugano Lab, Waseda University, Japan
- Prof. Sami Haddadin Director of Munich School of Robotic and Machine Vision, Germany
Organizing Committee
- Dr.-Ing. Mohsen Kaboli, Senior Research Scientist, The BMW Research, Center of AI, Robotics, and Cognitive Systesm, Germany
- Dr. Lisa-Marie Faller, Postdoctoral researcher, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
- Dr. Lorenzo Natale, Director of the Humanoid Sensing and Perception Lab, IIT, Italy
- Dr. Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Postdoc. Research Associate in Computer Science and Engineering, Uni. of Washington, US
- Dr. Robert Haschke, Senior Research Scientist in Neuroinformatics Institute, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner, Prof. of the Institute of Soft Matter Physics at the Johannes Keppler University Linz, Austria
- Prof. Ravinder Dahiya, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering, the School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK,
Venue
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2019)
Macau, China, November 4th, 2019
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to RoboTac19@aau.at