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INNOROBO 2012 - CONFERENCES THEMES
7 conferences will give an in depth look to some of the most promising fields of application of service robotics to identify the changes ahead and turn them into opportunities !
1. SYNERGIES AND CONVERGENCE BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE ROBOTICS
Industrial robotics is known for its applications in welding, soldering, handling, painting and assembling, for the automotive, electronics, metal, plastic and chemical industries. But industrial robotics is evolving towards new industries as well as smaller firms. It needs to reinvent itself and produce more flexible, mobile, easily trainable robots to work hand in hand with human workers. The human robot interactions (HRI) in factories and Cobotics are hot topics demonstrating the synergies and convergence that are likely to happen between industrial and service robotics technologies and solutions.
Martin HÄGELE
Chairman of the Service Robot Group in the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). He is also head of the Robot Systems Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Frank TOBE
Owner and publisher of “The Robot Report”. After selling his business and retiring from 25+ years as consultant to the DNC and major presidential, senatorial, congressional, mayoral campaigns and initiatives all across the U.S., Canada and internationally, he has energetically pursued a new career in researching and investing in robotics.
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2. Cobotic: from the robot assistant to the robot co-worker
Rachid ALAMI
Senior Scientist at CNRS. His main research contributions fall in the fields of robot architectures, task and motion planning, multi-robot cooperation, and human-robot interaction. Rachid Alami is currently the head of the Robotics and AI Department at LAAS.
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Jean-Christophe BAILLIE
Founder of Gostai. He worked at Sony Computer Science Lab before creating the Cognitive Robotics Lab at ENSTA in France, where he developed the Urbi open-source robotics operating system during several years with a team of experts in Robotics. Gostai has developed JAZZ, a telepresence robot.
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Philippe FRAISSE
Professor at the University of Montpellier, France. He is the head of robotics department (LIRMM) and co-chair of French National Workgroup (GDR Robotique) working on Humanoid Robotics (GT7). His research interests include humanoid robotics, robotics for rehabilitation and mobile manipulators as well as networked robots.
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3. HUMAN ROBOT PERCEPTIONS AND INTERACTIONS
User-centered design is a must for robots to truly become a mass market. Although technologies progress rapidly, and despite the impressive demonstrations of humanoid robots from Japan or elsewhere, we are not there yet. Hence the shape of robots has to be driven both by its functions and by our human expectations. A robotic dog which doesn’t sense my approach remains a gadget, a humanoid robot which cannot engage in a natural conversation will be a disappointment. What is the correct level of interactions with a robot? What is the ideal form factor associated to the functions it performs? What kind of robots are we ready to accept and cooperate with in our daily life?
Takanori SHIBATA
Senior Research Scientist at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He is the inventor of the seal robot named PARO. His research interests include human-robot interaction, robot therapy, and humanitarian de-mining.
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Valérie BAUWENS
Valérie Bauwens is a specialist in “human centric” decision processes, and particularly those based on ethnographic field research. In 2011, in collaboration with the EPFL, she applied to the robotic world her expertise about adoption of technology, as she studied how families integrated or not a vacuum-cleaning robot in their daily routines. Since 2010, she is also leading her own company, www.human-centricity.com.
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Habib HEYDARIAN
Principal Program Manager in the Microsoft Robotics group. Before joining the robotics group, Habib worked in the Microsoft Developer Division on the debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications.
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4. CLOUD ROBOTICS
Every file, document, database and digital information is now going through the “Cloud” (distant servers). What does it mean for our future, with machine to machine communication, connectivity for each and every of our daily life object? The imaginary world of Matrix is not so far away: your personal robot can learn with a simple download from the Cloud how to fly a helicopter or cook the perfect dinner.
Tim FIELD
Founder of the Heaphy project at Willow Garage. He has been a core author of ROS, the world’s leading open source Robot Operating System. Tim has built tools for analyzing large-scale robot datasets and designed web-based teleoperation interfaces.
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Robert S. BAUER
Executive Director at Willow Garage. Bob has over 30 years of leadership in turning innovative technologies into profitable strategic advantages. Dr. Bauer earned MS and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Stanford.
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5. HEALTH AND MEDICAL ROBOTICS
The growth of medical robots and surgeon/doctor augmentation devices since the mid-80s has been overwhelming, both as a field of innovation and research but also as a market for new products and services. Medical robotics is considered one of the success-stories of service robotics. It is a prominent segment of growth driven by demographic shifts, rising prosperity in developing countries and advances in medical technology.
Yoshisuki SANKAI
Professor of the Graduate School of Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba, Director of Cybernics Center and president and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc. He is the inventor, creator and driving force behind the advanced robotics, Robot Suit HAL® (Hybrid Assistive Limb ®) and various Cybernics, medical, care and welfare technologies.
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Colin ANGLE
Chairman of the board, chief executive officer and co-founder of iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT). Angle is an industry pioneer with more than two decades of experience. Under his guidance, iRobot is at the forefront of the growing robot industry, delivering home and military robots that are making a difference.
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Soya TAKAGI
After a Master of Engineering at Waseda University in 1975, M. TAKAGI entered Toyota Motor Corporation in the Production Engineering Development division. From 1991 to 1995, he worked in Europe to manage collaborative research projects with various European research institutions. Since 2005, M. Takagi is the Senior General Manager of the Partner Robot Development Division (PRDD) within Toyota Motor Corporation.
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6. URBAN ROBOTS: MOBILITY ROBOTIC SOLUTIONS FOR CITIZENS
One vision for the future features a generation of robots designed to play various roles in urban society. Some robots will be guides, others will help the elderly, some will make sure megacities are safe and others will collect our rubbish and do various daily chores. Beyond this we envision intelligent robotics to solve our major societal challenges: mobility with an overwhelming urbanization, and sustainable development for our planet to survive to our demanding energy consumption.
Claude LAURGEAU
Founder of the Robotics Centre at Mines ParisTech in 1988 and its Director until 2008, Award winner in 2004 of the Engelberger Award, the highest international distinction in robotics and author of the book : "Le siècle de la voiture intelligente" – The Century of the smart car”. Claude Laurgeau is a renowned consultant for international scientific institutions and government highest representatives.
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7. ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES FOR TERRESTRIAL VEHICLES
One of the biggest challenge of roboticians is to master autonomous robots in a complex, uncertain and dynamic environment. The Working Group 2 : Terrestrial vehicles, of the Robotics Research Group (www.gdr-robotique.org) reveals the latest research results and associated industrial benefits on mobility and conception of robots for urban or outdoor natural environments.
Philippe BIDAUD
Director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR). His main researches focus on emerging applications of robotics and intelligent systems in the fields of biology, neuroscience and cognitive science.
Roland LENAIN
Research fellow in Cemagref on the topic of off-road robotics. His research interests include the modeling and the control of mobile robots submitted to uncertain effects.
Patrick RIVES
Research Director at INRIA Sofia Antipolis Méditerannée center. He is one of the pioneers in the field of Robotics vision and control. He is a member of the IEEE and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics magazine; he is also member of the GDR scientific committee and co protagonist of the GT2 “land robots/ terrestrial vehicles”.
Simon LACROIX
Research scientist at LAAS/CNRS, where he animates the field robotics activities. His research is focused on the deployment of teams of multiple heterogeneous autonomous robots for exploration, surveillance or intervention missions.
Philippe BONNIFAIT
Professor at the University of Technology of Compiegne and with the lab Heudiasyc UMR UTC/CNRS 7253.
Faiz BEN AMAR
Associate professor-HDR at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC). He focuses his researches within the ISIR and since 2008 he is in charge of a Master in Advanced Systems and Robotics at the UPMC. For the last 10 years, he has been leading the project of “mobility in complex environments” at the Paris Research Laboratory and then at the ISIR.
Youcef MEZOUAR
Youcef Mezouar received the MS. and Ph.D. degrees in automation and computer science from the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1998 and from the University of Rennes 1, France in 2001 respectively. He spent one year as Postdoctoral Associate in the Robotic Lab of the Computer Science Department of Columbia University, New York. He currently co-leads the GRAVIR research group (over 80 persons) and the ROSACE (RObotic and Autonomous ComplEx System) team (around 20 persons).
