The program will include one invited talk, oral presentations of referred contributions, a student-paper/poster presentation as well as robot presentations and a tutorial session. The basic structure of the workshop will be organized as follows:

All sessions will be held at HS001, UMIT, ground floor.

Day1: mobile robots & robot demonstrations (RoboCup, Rescue Robots, Service Robots)

Registration:

Opening Speech:

Invited Talk:

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break

Session M1:

10.30 – 10.55 Dietmar Schreiner, iRIS - Towards a Robotic Immune System
10.55 – 11.20 Gerald Steinbauer, Robust Robotics Using History-Based-Diagnosis in IndiGolog
11.20 – 11.45 Franz Wotawa, (Still) open research questions to be solved in the context of smart autonomous systems
11.45 – 12.10 Justus Piater, Grasp Generalization Via Predictive Parts
12.10 – 12.35 Joachim von Zitzewitz, A user-cooperative, reconfigurable tendon-based robot: design, synthesis, and applications
12.35 – 13.00 Markus Quaritsch, FAMUOS: A Multi-UAV System for Aerial Reconnaissance in Rescue Scenarios

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Session M2:

14.00 – 14.20 Norbert Rath, Being specialized, a role based approach for a new robot platform
14.20 – 14.40 Michael Kollar, The application of pneumatic actuators in RoboCup's Middle Size League
14.40 – 15.00 Markus Eger, Kick it like Beckham - Learning kicker parameters using reward-weighted regression
15.00 – 15.20 Christof Hoppe, Keyframe-Based Visual SLAM in Large-Scale Environments
15.20 – 15.40 Wolfgang Pointner, Formal Methods-based System Development for General Aviation and Autonomous Aircraft

15.40 – 16.00 Coffee break

Afternoon of Robotics:
16.00 – 18.00 Demonstrations (public event)

Social Event:
19.00 (approx.) social event, historic center of Hall

Day 2: serial / industrial robots & tutorial

Session T1:

09.00 – 09.25 Johannes Karl Eberharter, Multi-Body Dynamics for Large-Scale Manipulators with distinct Topologies utilizing Kinematical Transformers
09.25 – 09.50 Markus Bader, A Visual Servo Control Overhead Crane
09.50 – 10.15 Brian Moore, Robotic grasping through human visuomotor learning

10.15 – 10.30 Coffee break

Session T2:

10.30 – 10.55 Andreas Pichler, LOCOBOT: Toolkit for building low cost robot co-workers in assembly lines
10.55 – 11.20 Sebastian Klug, Performance of a Service Robot as Surgical Assistant
11.20 – 11.45 Georg Nawratil, Self-motions of parallel manipulators associated with flexible octahedra

Session P (Poster):

11.45 – 11.50 Thomas Höll, Vision-based grasping of objects from a table using the humanoid robot Nao
11.50 – 11.55 Mathias Hubrich, ForBot - Scalable Research Robotics System
11.55 – 12.00 Daniel Lehrner, Consensus and time synchronization between mobile robots
12.00 – 12.05 Stefan Enderle, First Investigations of a novel ARM Board for LabVIEW-driven Mobile Robots
12.05 – 12.10 Georg Rauter, Robot-assisted human motor learning in sports
12.10 – 13.00 Discussion

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Tutorial:
14.00 – 17.00 Andrew Coles, Temporal and Continuous Planning

Invited Talk: Prof. Vijay Kumar, Autonomous Flight and Cooperative Control of Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles. University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, USA. (Homepage)

PhD-Student Tutorial: Andrew Coles, Temporal and Continuous Planning. University of Strathclyde - Glasgow, Scotland. (Homepage)