International Conference on Venice(Italy)
SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING November, 3-7
for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR 2008) 2008
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| Written by Monica Reggiani | |
| Wednesday, 24 September 2008 | |
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Tuesday, November 4 (Ancient Chorus Hall) 14:15 Opening Session 14:30 H. Bruyninckx Simulation, modeling, and programming for autonomous robots: the Open Source perspective 15:30 Y. Nakamura Modeling, understanding, and interacting with humans 16:30.17:00 Coffee Break 17:00 - 17:20 A Mobile Robot Control Framework: From Simulation to Reality Stephen Balakirsky, Frederick M. Proctor, Christopher J. Scrapper, and Thomas R. Kramer 17:20 - 17:50 A Software Platform for Component based RT-System Development: OpenRTM-aist Noriaki Ando, Takashi Suehiro, and Tetsuo Kotoku 17:50 - 18:10 MM-ulator: Towards a Common Evaluation Platform for Mixed Mode Environments Matthias Kropff, Christian Reinl, Kim Listmann, Karen Petersen, Katayon Radkhah, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Arthur Herzog, Armin Strobel, Daniel Jacobi, and Oskar von Stryk 18:10 - 18:30 Developing Robot Motions by Simulated Touch Sensors Fabio Dalla Libera, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Enrico Pagello, and Emanuele Menegatti 18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Reception Wednesday, November 5 8:10 - 8:30 ppPDC Communication Framework A New Tool for Distributed Robotics Grzegorz Polaków and Mieczyslaw Metzger 8:30 - 8:50 Knowledge Processing Middleware Fredrik Heintz, Jonas Kvarnström, and Patrick Doherty 8:50 - 9:10 The Experimental Robotics Framework Joõo Xavier and Helder Araújo 9:10 - 9:40 Implementing Flexible Parallelism for Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots Mirko Bordignon, Lars Lindegaard Mikkelsen, and Ulrik Pagh Schultz 9:40 - 10:00 Real-time Software for Mobile Robot Simulation and Experimentation in Cooperative Environments Andreu Corominas Murtra, Josep M. Mirats Tur, Oscar Sandoval, and Alberto Sanfeliu 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50 From simulated to real scenarios: a framework for multi-UAVs Andrea Cesetti, Adriano Mancini, Emanuele Frontoni, Primo Zingaretti, and Sauro Longhi 10:50 - 11:10 Authority Sharing in a Swarm of UAVs: Simulation and Experiments with Operators Franois Legras, Arnaud Glad, Olivier Simonin, and Franois Charpillet 11:10 - 11:30 Simulation of Multi-Robot Teams with Flexible Level of Detail Martin Friedmann, Karen Petersen, and Oskar von Stryk 11:30 - 11:50 Where Am I? A Simulated GPS Sensor for Outdoor Robotic Applications Benjamin Balaguer and Stefano Carpin 11:50 - 12:10 XPERSim: A Simulator for Robot Learning by Experimentation Iman Awaad and Beatriz Leòn 12:10 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 Departure to Padua 15:00 Arrival in Padua 15:00 G. Sandini Humanoids, Brain and Cognitive Science 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 H. Ishiguro Studies on humanlike robots - Humanoid, android and geminoid 17:30 - 19:00 Visit to Historical Building 20:00 - 22:00 Social Dinner Thursday, November6 8:40 - 9:00 An Introduction to a new commentator for RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation Amin Habibi Shahri 9:00 - 9:20 Towards Automated Online Diagnosis of Robot Navigation Software Alexander Kleiner, Gerald Steinbauer, and Franz Wotawa 9:20 - 9:40 Rescue Robot Navigation : Static Stability Estimation in Random Step Environment Evgeni Magid, Kentaro Ozawa, Takashi Tsubouchi Eiji Koyanagi, and Tomoaki Yoshida 9:40 - 10:00 A Common Framework for Co-operative Robotics: an Open, Fault Tolerant Architecture for multi-league RoboCup Teams Luís Mota and Luís Paulo Reis 10:00 - 10:20 Multilevel Testing of Control Software for Teams of Autonomous Mobile Robots Sebastian Petters, Dirk Thomas, Martin Friedmann, and Oskar von Stryk 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break 10:50 - 11:10 Performance Evaluation of Repeated Auctions for Robust Task Execution Maitreyi Nanjanath and Maria Gini 11:10 - 11:30 Conceptual Framework to Maintain Multiple and Floating Relationship among Coordinate Reference Systems for Robotics Itsuki Noda , Hiroki Shimora, and Hidehisa Akiyama 11:30 - 11:50 An Emphatic Humanoid Robot With Emotional Latent Semantic Behavior Antonio Chella, Giovanni Pilato, Rosario Sorbello, Giorgio Vassallo, Francesco Cinquegrani, and Salvatore Maria Anzalone 11:50 - 12:10 A Software System for Robotic Learning by Experimentation Iman Awaad, Ronny Hartanto, Beatriz Leòn, and Paul Plöger 12:10 - 12:30 YARS: A Physical 3D Simulator for Evolving Controllers for Real Robots Keyan Zahedi, Arndt von Twickel, and Frank Pasemann 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:20 Real-Time Least-Square Fitting of Ellipses Applied to the RobotCub Platform Nicola Greggio, Luigi Manfredi, Cecilia Laschi, Paolo Dario, and Maria Chiara Carrozza 14:20 - 14:40 Conceptual Design of a Power Distribution Line Maintenance Robot Using a Developed CG Simulator and Experimental Robot System Kiyoshi Tsukahara, Yorihiko Tanaka, Yingxin He, Toshihisa Miyamoto, and Kyouichi Tatsuno 14:40 - 15:00 A Multi-Agent 3D Simulation Environment for Clothing Industry Rezia Molfino, Enrico Carca, Matteo Zoppi, Fabio Bonsignorio, Massimo Callegari, Andrea Gabrielli, and Marco Principi 15:20 - 15:40 A Lunar Surface Operations Simulator Hari. Nayar, Bob J. Balaram, Jonathan Cameron, Abhinandan Jain, Christopher Lim, Rudranarayan Mukherjee, Stephen Peters, Marc Pomerantz, Leonard Reder, Partha Shakkottai, and Stephen Wall 15:40 - 16:00 3D Simulation of a motorized operation microscope Markus Finke and Achim Schweikard 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 - 17:30 Discussion 18:00 - 19:00 Farewell Reception |
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