Conference Programme - Thursday, September 3

  • 08:30-09:00 REGISTRATION at the EMMTEC building

  • 09:00-10:10 KEYNOTE TALK 2
    • Roland Siegwart:
      Design and navigation of robots that roll, run and fly
      • Robots are rapidly evolving from factory work-horses, which are physically bound to their work-cells, to increasingly complex machines capable of performing challenging tasks as search and rescue, surveillance and inspections, planetary exploration or autonomous transportation of goods. This requires robots to operate in unstructured and unpredictable environments and various terrains. This talk will focus on design and navigation aspects of wheeled, legged, and aerial robots operating in complex environments.
  • 10:10-10:40 COFFEE BREAK

  • 10:40-12:00 ORAL SESSION 3: LONG-TERM AUTONOMY
    • Session chair: Jan Faigl, Czech Technical University, CZ
    • [10:40-11:00] Lenka Mudrova, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes
      An Integrated Control Framework for Long-Term Autonomy in Mobile Service Robots

    • [11:00-11:20] Tayyab Naseer, Benjamin Suger, Michael Ruhnke, Wolfram Burgard
      Vision-Based Markov Localization Across Large Perceptual Changes

    • [11:20-11:40] Peer Neubert, Peter Protzel
      Local Region Detector + CNN based Landmarks for Practical Place Recognition in Changing Environments

    • [11:40-12:00] Tomas Krajnik, Pablo Cristoforis, Matias Nitsche, Keerthy Kusumam, Tom Duckett
      Image Features and Seasons Revisited

  • 12:00-13:30 LUNCH

  • 13:30-14:30 ORAL SESSION 4: EXPLORATION
    •  Session chair: Dirk Holz, Bonn University, Germany
    • [13:30-13:50] Jan Faigl, Miroslav Kulich
      On Benchmarking of Frontier-Based Multi-Robot Exploration Strategies

    • [13:50-14:10] Ignacio Perez-Hurtado, Jesus Capitan, Fernando Caballero, Luis Merinol
      An Extension of GHMMs for Environments With Occlusions, Automatic Goal Discovery for Person Trajectory Prediction

    • [14:10-14:30] Tomas Krajnik, Joao M. Santos, Tom Duckett
      Life-Long Spatio-Temporal Exploration of Dynamic Environments

  • 14:40-15:40 POSTER SESSION 2: SPOTLIGHTS (3 min)
    •  Session chair: Grzegorz Cielniak, University of Lincoln, UK
    • [Poster #16] A.D. May, C. Dondrup,M. Hanheide
      Show Me Your Moves! Conveying Navigation Intention of a Mobile Robot to Humans

    • [Poster #17] A. Mancini, E. Frontoni, P. Zingaretti
      Development of a Low-cost Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Digital Survey

    • [Poster #18] M.S. Karthik, S. Mittal, G. Malik, K.M. Krishna
      Decision Theoretic Search for Small Objects through Integrating Far, Near Cues

    • [Poster #19] R. Stricker, S. Mueller, H.M. Gross
      R2D2 Reloaded: Dynamic Video Projection on a Mobile Service Robot

    • [Poster #20] M. Lora, S. Ghidoni, M. Munaro, E. Menegatti
      A Geometric Approach to Multiple Viewpoint Human Body Pose Estimation

    • [Poster #21] J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez
      OLT: A Toolkit for Object Labeling Applied to Robotic RGB-D Datasets

    • [Poster #22] S.Di Lucia, G.D. Tipaldi, W. Burgard
      Attitude Stabilization Control of an Aerial Manipulator using a Quaternion-Based Backstepping Approach

    • [Poster #23] J. Laechele, J. Venrooij, P. Pretto∗, A. Zell, and H.H. Buelthoff
      Novel approach for calculating motion feedback in teleoperation

    • [Poster #24] R.T. Chadalavada, H. Andreasson, R. Krug and A.J. Lilienthal
      That’s on my Mind! Robot to Human Intention Communication through on-board Projection on Shared Floor Space

    • [Poster #25] J. Prado, S. Felipe, L. Marques
      Bayesian Sensor Fusion for Multi-Platform Landmines Detection

    • [Poster #26] J. Ernits, E. Halling, G. Kanter, J. Vain
      Model-based integration testing of ROS packages: a mobile robot case study

    • [Poster #27] V.K. Ghorpade, P. Checchin, L. Trassoudaine
      Line-of-Sight-based ToF camera’s range image filtering for precise 3D scene reconstruction

    • [Poster #28] M. Himstedt, E. Maehle
      Geometry matters: Place Recognition in 2D Range Scans using Geometrical Surface Relations

    • [Poster #29] T.P. Kucner, M. Magnusson, A.J. Lilienthal
      Where am I? An NDT-based prior for MCL

    • [Poster #30] A.A. Khaliq, F. Pecora, A. Saffiotti
      Inexpensive, Reliable, Localization-free Navigation using an RFID Floor

    • [Poster #31] N.D. Reddy, A.K. Mondal
      Incremental Real-time Multibody VSLAM with Trajectory Optimization Using Stereo Camera

    • [Poster #32] T. Krajnik, J. Blazicek, J.M. Santos
      Visual Road Following Using Intrinsic Images

    • [Poster #33] C. Manss, D. Shutin, A.V. Ruiz, T. Wiedemann, J. Mueller
      Exploration under Sparsity Constraints

    • [Poster #34] I. Cvisic, I. Petrovic
      Stereo odometry based on careful feature selection and tracking

    • [Poster #35] A. Ramaswamy and B. Monsuez, A. Tapus
      Model-Driven Self-Adaptation of Robotics Software using Probabilistic Approach

  • 15:40-16:10 COFFEE BREAK at the MINERVA building

  • 16:10-17:30 POSTER DISPLAY at the MINERVA building

  • 19:00-22:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

    • The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 3rd at 19:00 at DoubleTree by Hilton reachable by 10 mins walk from the conference site.

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