[robocup-nao] HUMANOIDS 2015 Workshop on Reusable and Open-Source Modules for Humanoid Robots

Oskar von Stryk stryk at sim.tu-darmstadt.de
Wed Oct 21 17:25:24 EDT 2015


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    Call for Participation
    IEEE-RAS HUMANOIDS 2015 Workshop
    Reusable and Open-Source Modules for Humanoid Robots
    November 3rd, 2015, 9:15AM to 1PM, Seoul, Korea
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FORMAT

The workshop features nine contributions on highly capable hardware
and software modules for humanoid robots in a combination of
oral presentations with in-depth interactive sessions.


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVE

Humanoids are capable of incredibly sophisticated motion, perception, and 
interaction with their environments. They are also well-suited for executing 
complex tasks in constrained, human-engineered environments with applications 
as robotic co-workers, service robots, and avatars for human response forces 
for disaster recovery. The recent DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a dramatic 
demonstration of the state-of-the-art of humanoids in the last category.

However, the complexity of humanoid robots still challenges our best software 
for dynamic motion planning, control, perception, and mission operation. Our 
ability to deploy these systems in real-world scenarios will depend strongly on 
our ability to successively build on available and proven hardware and software 
modules. This workshop is intended to promote this topic by featuring talks and 
live demonstrations about several recent projects and approaches related to 
both software (control, planning, estimation, interfaces) and hardware 
(sensors, actuators, and robot designs).


CONTRIBUTIONS

I. Ha (ROBOTIS, Korea): Introduction to THORMANG: An Open Platform Humanoid 
Robot

B. Shrewsbury (IHMC, FL, USA): IHMC's Open Source Simulator, Diagnostics 
Utilities, and Humanoid Whole Body Controller

R. Deits (MIT, MA, USA): Reusable Planning, Control, and Interface Software for 
Humanoids

E. Mingo Hoffman, Nikos G. Tsagarakis (IIT, Italy): The Robotic Software 
Developed by WALK-MAN Team for the DRC Finals

A. Stumpf, S. Kohlbrecher, A. Romay, P. Schillinger, O. von Stryk (TU 
Darmstadt, Germany), S. Maniatopoulos (Cornell Univ., USA), F. Bacim, D.A. 
Bowman (Virginia Tech, USA), D.C. Conner (Christopher Newport Univ., USA): DRC 
Team ViGIR’s Modular, Open-Source, ROS-based Software for Humanoid Robots

P. Allgeuer, H. Farazi, M. Schreiber, S. Behnke (Univ. Bonn, Germany): igus 
Humanoid Open Platform: A Modular 3D Printed Humanoid Robot

S. Traversaro, F. Romano, N. Kuppuswamy, A. Del Prete, J. Eljaik, N. Lorenzo, 
F. Nori (IIT, Italy): wholeBodyInterface: An Open-Source Software Abstraction 
Layer for Whole-Body Motion Control

K. Hauser (Duke Univ., NC, USA): Robust Simulation and Trajectory Optimization 
for Humanoids

Jong-Wook Kim (Dong-A Univ. Korea): ROBOTIS-OP MATLAB Simulation and Middleware 
Codes for Motion Generation and Biped Walking


MORE INFORMATION
including abstracts and links to software repositories
http://www.sim.tu-darmstadt.de/humanoids2015


Best,
Jong-Wook Kim, Dong-A University, Korea
Scott Kuindersma, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Oskar von Stryk, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany


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