Thursday May 3 2012

8:00-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:10

Welcome Note

9:10-10:00

Invited  Talk

Prof. Michael Beetz, Cognition-Enabled Control  for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30

Technical Session I - Mechanisms and Control

• Johannes Mayr, Bernhard Oberhuber, Hubert Gattringer and Hartmut Bremer. Development and Control of a Modular Biped Walking Machine

• Johannes Karl Eberharter, Thomas Pfister, Markus Öttl and Robert Amann. Trajectory Control for 3RPR Manipulators

• Igor Kovač and Marko Gračner. An Intelligent Multipurpose End-Effector System for a Hydraulic Telescopic Handler

• Riko Safaric, Gregor Skorc, Jure Cas and David Lukman. From micro precision robots to nano precision robots

• Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner and Thomas Schmickl. Towards Morphological Flexibility: Modular Robotics and Bio-inspired Control

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:30

Technical Session II - Search and Rescue

• Andreas Huber, Markus Vincze, Wolfgang Netzer, Angel Rodriguez and Lukas Silberbauer. TAUROB tracker: A Remotely Operated Robot with a Biological Inspired Steering Assistance System

• Zdenko Kovacic, Marko Cukon, Kristijan Brkic, Goran Vasiljevic, Alan Mutka and Damjan Miklic. A Four-flipper Tracked Robot for Exploration \& Inspection in Life-threatening Environments

• Vera Mersheeva and Gerhard Friedrich. Routing of Multiple Micro UAVs for Rescue Missions

• Daniel Wischounig-Strucl and Bernhard Rinner. Incrementally Generated Wide Area Mosaics for Rescue Scenarios by Networked UAVs

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-18:00

Public Event

• Exhibition Tour

• Poster Session

• First Responder Demo

19:00

Workshop Banquet

presented and hosted by Knapp AG

shuttle bus service to Knapp AG will be organized

Friday May 4 2012

8:00-9:00

Registration

9:00-10:00

Student and Short Paper Session

• Luis Mateos and Markus Vincze. DeWaLoP In-pipe Redevelopment System Design

• Florian Ehrentraut, Christian Landschützer, Dominik Lechner, Christian Matt, Wolfgang Pichler, Bernhard Puchinger, Gerald Steinbauer and Daniel Wimmer. Kombot - An Autonomous Mobile Order Picking Robot

• Walter Wohlkinger, Andreas Baldinger and Markus Vincze. Eva: A Low-Cost Robotic Head for Interactive Learning of Categories from the Web

• Ekaterina Potapova, Michael Zillich and Markus Vincze. 3D Information as a Way to Improve the Quality of Attention Points

• Matevž Bošnak and Sašo Blažič. Graphical glyph-based sparse VSLAM

• Marco Bonini, Kristina Tishchenko, Alice Kirchheim and Wolfgang Echelmeyer. Application of Cognitive Robotics within Logistics

10:00-10:30

Invited Talk

Prof. Jadran Lenarčič, From industrial to human robots and back

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:45

Technical Session III - Intelligent Systems and Solutions

• Robert Kuschnig, Evsen Yanmaz, Ingo Kofler, Bernhard Rinner and Hermann Hellwagner. Profiling IEEE 802.11 Performance on Linux-based Networked Aerial Robots

• Andreas Wendel, Michael Maurer, Mario Katusic and Horst Bischof. Fuzzy Visual Servoing for Micro Aerial Vehicles

• Dietmar Schreiner. Optimizing Compilers for Safety-Critical Robotic Systems

• Matthias Plasch, Andreas Pichler and Martijn Rooker. Simplified Programming of Modular Robotic Systems based on Workflow Modeling

• Markus Bader, Helmut Brunner, Thomas Hamböck, Markus Vincze and Alexander Hofmann. Stable Distributed Background: Approaches to solve the Uniform-Goal-Problem within the SPL League for the RoboCup WC 2012

12:45-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

Panel  Discussion

“Robotics Research – What does Industry expect and what Academia think is needed.”

Panelists (confirmed)

• Manfred Kainz, TCM International, Austria

• Jadran Lenarčič, Jožef Štefan Institute, Slovenia

• Heinz Kammerlander, Knapp Systemintegration GmbH, Austria

• Alessandro Farinelli, University Verona, Italy

• Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Moderation: Katrin Reisinger, Hans-Joachim Schlobach, RS Verlag, Austria

14:30-16:30

Tutorial on Multi Robot Coordination

Dr. Alessandro Farinelli

Workshop Business Meeting