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Find all on-demand videos on our YouTube channel or on gCon virtual conference system. See the replay from the unofficial live session with Júlia Borràs and Dmitry Berenson.

Contents of the live sessions

    Unofficial online live session - Tuesday Sept. 14, 14:00 CEST on Teams:
  • Dr. Júlia Borràs (CSIC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) "Encoding cloth manipulation tasks as graphs of states and transitions"
  • Pr. Chedli Bouzgarrou (Institut Pascal - SIGMA Clermont) "Approaches for robotic manipulation in MROD project"
  • Pr. Dmitry Berenson (University of Michigan) "Planning and control with unreliable dynamics models for deformable object manipulation"
  • Q&A and discussion with speakers
    Official online live session - Monday Sept. 27, 14:00 CEST on gCon virtual conference system:
  • Chia-Yu Tsai (TU Delft) "Wrinkle contraction direction: a useful feature for learning robotic fabric manipulation from demonstration"
  • Daniel Seita (Carnegie Mellon University) "Initial Results on Grasping and Lifting Physical Deformable Bags with a Bimanual Robot"
  • Round table with all participants
Don't forget to check invited speakers presentations, available on-demand on our YouTube channel or gCon virtual conference system.

Invited speakers presentations

  • Pr. Kaspar Althoefer

    Queen Mary University of London

    Tactile sensors for robot hands: Towards intelligent manipulation of soft objects

  • Pr. Dmitry Berenson

    University of Michigan

    Planning and control with unreliable dynamics models for deformable object manipulation

  • Dr. Júlia Borràs

    CSIC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    Encoding cloth manipulation tasks as graphs of states and transitions

  • Pr. Chedli Bouzgarrou

    Institut Pascal - SIGMA Clermont

    Approaches for robotic manipulation in MROD project

  • Pr. Christian Duriez

    Inria Lille - University of Lille

    Towards soft robots manipulation through model-based sensing and control

  • Pr. Pablo Gil

    University of Alicante

    Tactile perception to detect interaction and accomplish a stable grasping

  • Pr. Yan-Bin Jia

    Iowa State University

    Grasping and cutting of deformable objects

  • Pr. Youcef Mezouar

    Institut Pascal - SIGMA Clermont

    SoftManBot: Advanced robotic technology for handling soft materials in manufacturing sectors

  • Pr. David Navarro-Alarcon

    The Hong Kong Polythechnic University

    Behold, I teach you visual shape servoing

  • Pr. Gianluca Palli

    University of Bologna

    The REMODEL project: Current challenges and novel approaches for automation in wiring industry

  • Dr. Diego Perez Losada

    Dionisis Andronas

    AIMEN - University of Patras

    Simulation for enhanced perception and planning

  • Pr. Hesheng Weng

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Vision-based automatic control of deformable objects

Scope and Objectives

Deformable objects are encountered in a wide variety of industrial, service and health applications. However, robotizing tasks that involve deformable objects requires specific contributions, as the behavior of such objects affects all aspects of a robotic system: perception, actuation, planning and control.
In particular, it seems to the organizers that planning, control and perception require significant contributions, since the usual tools that apply for rigid body manipulation in those fields cannot be used anymore.
Hence, we propose to gather works on these subjects that bring agility and performance to robotic systems performing real-world applications.

    Here are some examples of topics that could be targeted:
  • Taking into account contacts and interactions with the environment
  • Proposing low-dimensional representations for deformation state
  • Using sensor information for planning and control
  • Using learning methods to cope with deformation
  • Understanding manipulation from human demonstration and reproducing it
  • Dealing with objects that are unknown or exhibit changeable behavior
  • Enabling versatility through hardware and software choices

Important Dates

  • June 25 Invited speakers abstracts
  • Aug. 13 Contributed papers submission
  • Aug. 27 Contributed papers acceptance
  • Sept. 5 Video recordings submission
  • Sept. 12 On-demand presentations available
  • Sept. 14 14:00-16:30 CEST Unofficial live session
  • Sept. 27 14:00-16:00 CEST Contributed papers presentations
  • Sept. 27 14:00-16:00 CEST Round table

Organizers

  • Dr. Adrien Koessler, postdoc fellow at LCFC, Université de Lorraine, France (main organizer)
  • Dr. Jihong Zhu, Postdoctoral Fellow at Cognitive Robotics (CoR), TU Delft and Honda Research Institute, Europe
  • Dr. Juan Antonio Corrales Ramon, postdoc fellow at CiTIUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Dr. Syed Haider Jawad Abidi, postdoc fellow at Institute Italiano de Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
  • Dr. Gabriele Marchello, postdoc fellow at Institute Italiano de Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
  • Nicolas Roca Filella, PhD student at SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
  • Pr. Chedli Bouzgarrou, professor at SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
  • Pr. Youcef Mezouar, professor at SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France

Contact

For all questions plase sollicitate the main organizer: Adrien.Koessler[AT]sigma-clermont[DOT]fr