4th SCHUNK Expert Days
Service Robotics

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

• Martin Hägele
  Introduction
• Prof. Henrik I. Christensen
  Reshaping robotics to address new opportunities
• Dr. Robert Boesecke
  Computer aided surgery research projects at the University Hospital Heidelberg
• Dr. Marc Ronthaler
  Mobile robots are actors in the internet of things
• Florian Weißhardt
  Care-O-bot-Research: Providing robust robotics hardware to an open source community
• Sorin Grigorescu
  FRIEND – Robust machine vision in assistive robotics tasks
• Prof. Bruno Siciliano
  Fast visual grasp of unknown objects with a multi-finger hand
• Thomas Haase
  Intelligent control and reactive grasping for multi-finger grippers
• Prof. Rezia Molfino
  Robotic handling of limp, soft, near 2D material
• Prof. Darius Burschka
  GRASP – Cognitive grasping through emulation, introspection and surprise
• Dr. Stefano Saliceti / Dr. Ryad Chellali
  Environment for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of grasping effectiveness using embedded sensory feedback / Mapping human hand motion to 3-finger robotic hand – preliminary results

Thursday, February 25, 2010

• Prof. Antonio Bicchi
  Variable impedance actuators for adaptive robotics
• Sami Haddadin
  Next Generation Robots: From robotic co-workers to
  intrinsic compliance
• Eric Berger
  ROS and PR2 - Platforms for personal robotics
• Dr. Danijela Ristic
  RoboWalker – A mobile robot-assisted gait rehabilitation system
• Prof. Mike Stilman
  Physical intelligence for humanoid robots
• Rainer Bischoff
  Towards closer academia-industry cooperation and
  faster technology transfers in robotics
• Thomas Bömer
  Safety of collaborative robots in industry
• Diego Compagna
  The insertion of service robots in environments of
  high social complexity
• Prof. Bruno Siciliano
  ECHORD – European clearing house for open robotics development
• Prof. Michael Hofbaur
  Modular Machines – reconfigurable mobile robots for
  research and education