Conference Program Sep 2, 2011

General Information

Web site: http://aass.oru.se/Agora/ECMR2011/index.html

Contact: Monica Wettler (Conference Coordinator): +46 - 70 - 257 13 12

Local Organization:

Monica Wettler (Conference Coordinator) Barbro Alvin (Local Organization) Per Sporrong (Local Organization) Marcello Cirillo (Local Organization)

Conference Organisation:

Tom Duckett (Program Chair) Achim J. Lilienthal (General Chair)

Conference Board:

Adam Borkowski Wolfram Burgard Primo Zingaretti

Program Committee:

Kai Arras, Tamim Asfour, Alexander Bahr, Nicola Bellotto, Juan Andrade Cetto, Raja Chatila, Antonio Chella, Marcello Cirillo, Grzegorz Cielniak, Andreu Corominas Murtra, Mark Cummins, Robert Cupec, David Filliat, Thierry Fraichard, Udo Frese, Emanuele Frontoni, Javier Gonzalez, Roderich Gross, Horst-Michael Gross, Dongbing Gu, Dirk Holz, Luca Iocchi, Patric Jensfelt, Dermot Kerr, Maarja Kruusmaa, Martin Magnusson, Lino Marques, Tomás Martínez-Marín, Stefan May, Emanuele Menegatti, Ivan Petrovic, Cedric Pradalier, Libor Preucil, Dario Lodi Rizzini, Alessandro Saffiotti, Thomas Schön, Antonio Sgorbissa, Piotr Skrzypczynski, Cyrill Stachniss, Adriana Tapus, Rudolph Triebel, Andrzej Typiak, Jasmin Velagic, Markus Vincze

Sponsors:

ABB Atlas Copco Robotdalen Volvo Construction Equipment

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

19:30-21:00 Welcome Cocktail at Stadsträdgården

Stadsträdgårdens Restaurang & Café

Floragatan 1, Örebro

019-13 98 35

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

08:00-09:30 Registration (in front of Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

08:45-09:00 Opening

09:00-10:00 Invited Talk 1 (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

Per-Erik Forssén, Linköping University Dynamic and Situated Visual Perception

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break, Registration

10:20-11:20 Session 1 – Shared Environments (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

10:20-10:40 Cipriano Galindo, Javier Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal, Alessandro Saffiotti Robots That Change Their World: Inferring Goals from Semantic Knowledge

10:40-11:00 Arne Kreutzmann, Immo Colonius, Lutz Frommberger, Frank Dylla, Christian Freksa, Diedrich Wolter On Process Recognition by Logical Inference

11:00-11:20 Aydemir Alper, Moritz Göbelbecker, Andrzej Pronobis, Kristoffer Sjöö, Patric Jensfelt Plan-based Object Search and Exploration Using Semantic Spatial Knowledge in the Real World

11:20-12:00 Session 2 – Comparative Evaluation (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

11:20-11:40 Todor Stoyanov, Athanasia Louloudi, Henrik Andreasson, Achim J. Lilienthal Comparative Evaluation of Range Sensor Accuracy in Indoor Environments

11:40-12:00 Dirk Holz, Nicola Basilico, Francesco Amigoni, Sven Behnke A Comparative Evaluation of Exploration Strategies and Heuristics To Improve Them

12:10-13:20 Lunch at restaurant Kraka and (in parallel) Conference Board Meeting at the Faculty Club

Hörsal T and Lunch Restaurant Kraka at the University Campus

Session Chair: Alessandro Saffiotti

Session Chair: Dirk Holz

13:25-13:40 Invited Talk 2 (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

Wolfram Burgard, Freiburg University Robot Control Based on System Identification: A Presentation in Honour of Ulrich Nehmzow

13:40-14:20 Session 3 – Tracking (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

13:40-14:00

Srećko Jurić-Kavelj, Ivan Marković, Ivan Petrović People Tracking with Heterogeneous Sensors using JPDAF with Entropy Based Track Management

14:00-14:20 Aamir Ahmad, Pedro Lima Multi-Robot Cooperative Object Tracking Based on Particle Filters

14:20-14:45 Coffee Break, Registration

14:45-16:05 Session 4 – Navigation (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

14:45-15:05 Bernd Kitt, Jörn Rehder, Andrew Chambers, Miriam Schönbein, Henning Lategahn, Sanjiv Singh Monocular Visual Odometry using a Planar Road Model to Solve Scale Ambiguity

15:05-15:25 Boris Lau, Christoph Sprunk, Wolfram Burgard Incremental Updates of Configuration Space Representations for Non-Circular Mobile Robots

15:25-15:45 Maximilian Beinhofer, Jörg Müller, Wolfram Burgard Landmark Placement for Accurate Mobile Robot Navigation

15:45-16:05 Francesco Capezio, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonello Scalmato, Antonio Sgorbissa, Paolo Vernazza, Tullio Vernazza, Renato Zaccaria Mobile Robots in Hospital Environments: an Installation Case Study

16:05-16:25 Invited Talk 3 (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

Torbjörn Martinsson, VolvoCE Construction Equipment is a Mobile Robotic Market

16:40-22:15 Volvo CE Visit, Eskilstuna (Demo, Museum and Dinner)

16:40 Bus leaves from Örebro University 17:50 Arrival at Volvo CE demo centre. Presentation and basic demo. Sandwiches are served. 18:40 Bus leaves towards Munktell museum 19:00 Drink at Munktell museum 19:10 Volvo CE movie 19:20 Museum tour 20:00 Dinner ≈22:15 Bus leaves toward Örebro

Session Chair: Andreas Nüchter

Session Chair: Ivan Petrović

Thursday, September 8, 2011

08:30-09:30 Registration

09:00-10:00 Invited Talk 4 (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

Markus Vincze, Vienna University of Technology Robot Object Classification

10:00-10:40 Session 5 – Visual SLAM (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

10:00-10:20 John McDonald, Michael Kaess, Cesar Cadena, José Neira, John J. Leonard 6-DOF Multi-session Visual SLAM using Anchor Nodes

10:20-10:40 Gerardo Carrera, Adrien Angeli, Andrew Davison Lightweight SLAM and Navigation with a Multi-Camera Rig

10:40-11:10 Coffee Break, Registration

11:10-12:00 Poster Spotlight Session 1 – Shared Environments, Navigation (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

11:10-11:15 Abir Karami, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib A Decision Model of Adaptive Interaction Selection for a Robot Companion

11:15-11:20 Jonas Firl, Quan Tran Probabilistic Maneuver Prediction in Traffic Scenarios

11:20-11:25 Jens Kessler, Andrea Scheidig, Horst-Michael Gross Approaching a Person in a Socially Acceptable Manner Using Expanding Random Trees

11:25-11:30 Amir Aly, Adriana Tapus Speech to Head Gesture Mapping in Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction

11:30-11:35 Hatice Kose-Bagci, Rabia Yorganci, Hatice Esra Algan Evaluation of the Robot Sign Language Tutor Using Video-Based Studies

11:35-11:40 Agustin Ortega, Juan Andrade-Cetto Segmentation of Dynamic Objects From Laser Data

11:40-11:45 Erik Einhorn, Christof Schröter, Horst-Michael Gross Monocular Detection and Estimation of Moving Obstacles for Robot Navigation

11:45-11:50 Robert Cupec, Emmanuel K. Nyarko, Damir Filko Fast 2.5D Mesh Segmentation to Approximately Convex Surfaces

11:50-11:55 Janusz Bedkowski Data Registration Module - A Component Of Semantic Simulation Engine

11:55-12:00 Ernesto H. Teniente, Juan Andrade-Cetto FaMSA: Fast Multi-Scan Alignment with Partially Known Correspondences

12:00-13:00 Lunch at restaurant Kraka

Session Chair: Tom Duckett

Session Chair: Primo Zingaretti

13:00-14:20 Session 6 – Perception (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

13:00-13:20 Sebastian Scherer, Daniel Dube, Philippe Komma, Andreas Masselli, Andreas Zell Robust Real-Time Number Sign Detection on a Mobile Outdoor Robot

13:20-13:40 Marcel Häselich, Marc Arends, Dagmar Lang, Dietrich Paulus Terrain Classification with Markov Random Fields on fused Camera and 3D Laser Range Data

13:40-14:00 Andrzej Pronobis, Patric Jensfelt Hierarchical Multi-Modal Place Categorization

14:00-14:20 Luís Osório, Gonçalo Cabrita, Lino Marques Mobile Robot Odor Plume Tracking Using Three Dimensional Information

14:20-14:50 Coffee Break, Registration

14:50-15:30 Session 7 – Planning (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

14:50-15:10 Jan Faigl, Vojtech Vonasek, Libor Preucil A Multi-Goal Path Planning for Goal Regions in the Polygonal Domain

15:10-15:30 Jörg Stückler, Ricarda Steffens, Dirk Holz and Sven Behnke Real-Time 3D Perception and Efficient Grasp Planning for Everyday Manipulation Tasks

15:30-16:30 Poster Spotlight Session 2 – Perception, Planning, Visual Mapping, SLAM, Applications

15:30-15:35 Gonçalo Cabrita, Pedro Sousa, Lino Marques Odor Guided Exploration and Plume Tracking - Particle Plume Explorer

15:35-15:40 Miriam Schönbein, Bernd Kitt, Martin Lauer Environmental Perception for Intelligent Vehicles Using Catadioptric Stereo Vision Systems

15:40-15:45 Dominik Belter, Przemyslaw Labecki, Piotr Skrzypczynski On-Board Perception and Motion Planning for Legged Locomotion over Rough Terrain

15:45-15:50 Vojtech Vonasek, Jan Faigl, Tomas Krajnik, Libor Preucil A Sampling Schema for Rapidly Exploring Random Trees using a Guiding Path

15:50-15:55 Rainer Palm, Abdelbaki Bouguerra Navigation of Mobile Robots by Potential Field Methods and Market-Based Optimization

15:55-16:00 Feras Dayoub, Grzegorz Cielniak, Tom Duckett A Sparse Hybrid Map for Vision-Guided Mobile Robots

16:00-16:05 Marco A. Gutiérrez, Pilar Bachiller, Luis J. Manso, Pablo Bustos, Pedro Núñez An Incremental Hybrid Approach To Indoor Modeling

16:05-16:10 Hemanth Korrapati Efficient Topological Mapping with Image Sequence Partitioning

16:10-16:15 Thomas Feraud, Roland Chapuis, Romuald Aufrere, Paul Checchin Kalman Filter Correction With Rational Non-Linear Functions: Application To Visual-SLAM

16:15-16:20 Paolo Raspa, Emanuele Frontoni, Adriano Mancini, Primo Zingaretti, Sauro Longhi Helicopter Safe Landing Using Vision and 3D Sensing

Session Chair: Adam Borkowski

Session Chair: Achim J. Lilienthal

Session Chair: Abdelbaki Bouguerra

16:20-16:25 Klas Hedenberg, Björn Åstrand Safety Standard for Mobile Robots - A Comparison Study of Different Virtual Bumpers

16:25-16:30 Wajahat Kazmi, Morten Bisgaard, Francisco Garcia-Ruiz, Karl Damkjær Hansen, Anders la Cour-Harbo Adaptive Surveying and Early Treatment of Crops with a Team of Autonomous Vehicles

16:30-18:00 Poster Session (in front of Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

19:30-23:00 Social Event at Örebro Castle

Örebro Castle (entrance from the court yard)

Kansligatan, Örebro

Friday, September 9, 2011

08:30-09:30 Registration

08:40-09:20 Session 8 – New Design Concepts (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

08:40-09:00 Shahriar Asta, Sanem Sariel-Talay A Differential Steering System for Humanoid Robots

09:00-09:20 Christian Mandel, Udo Frese Annelid - A Novel Design for Actuated Robots Inspired by Ringed Worm's Locomotion

09:20-10:40 Session 9 – SLAM (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

09:20-09:40 Andreas Nüchter, Seyedshams Feyzabadi, Deyuan Qiu, Stefan May SLAM à la carte - GPGPU for Globally Consistent Scan Matching

09:40-10:00 Andreja Kitanov, Ivan Petrovic Generalization of 2D Slam Observability Condition

10:00-10:20 Anssi Kemppainen, Janne Haverinen, Ilari Vallivaara, Juha Röning Near-optimal SLAM Exploration in Gaussian Processes: Scalable Optimality Factor and Model Quality R

10:20-10:40 Eduardo Lopez, Caleb De Bernardis, Tomás Martínez-Marín An Active SLAM Approach for Autonomous Navigation of Nonholonomic Vehicles

10:40-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-12:30 Session 10 – Localization (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

11:10-11:30 John Folkesson Robustness of the Quadratic Antiparticle Filter for Robot Localization

11:30-11:50 Stéphane Bazeille, Emmanuel Battesti, David Filliat Qualitative Localization Using Vision and Odometry For Path Following In Topo-Metric Maps

11:50-12:10 Keisuke Matsuo, Jun Miura, Junji Satake Stereo-Based Outdoor Localization using a Line Drawing Building Map

12:10-12:30 Alessandro Benini, Adriano Mancini, Emanuele Frontoni, Primo Zingaretti, Sauro Longhi Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Indoor/Outdoor Localization using a 802.15.4a Wireless Network

12:30-13:00 Closing: Next ECMR and Best Paper Ballot (Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

13:00-14:30 Lunch at restaurant Kraka

14:30-16:00 Demos at AASS (meeting point in front of Hörsal T, Teknikhuset)

Session Chair: Tomás Martínez-Marín

Session Chair: Udo Frese

Session Chair: Emanuele Frontoni