IROS-EPHRC 2020: IROS 2020 Workshop on Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration: Opportunities and Challenges CAESARS FORUM Las Vegas, NV, United States, October 25, 2020 |
Conference website | https://hri.iit.it/news/organizations/iros2020-workshop |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irosephrc2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 1, 2020 |
Submission deadline | September 1, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance | September 15, 2020 |
3rd Full-day Workshop on Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration: Opportunities and Challenges.
October 25, 2020 - - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - Las Vegas, NV, USA
Notification
The workshop will be updated/revised following the IROS 2020 plans (please see FAQs about the IROS 2020 organisation here). The workshop organisers will thus announce, no later than early September (7-weeks before IROS) the final format of the workshop e.g. live/in-person, virtual, hybrid, etc.
Call for Contributions
We would kindly like to invite you to participate in IROS 2020 Workshop on Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration: Opportunities and Challenges. We will welcome prospective participants to submit extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) to be presented as posters. The manuscripts should use the IEEE IROS two-column format. A PDF copy of the manuscript should be submitted through our EasyChair platform. Each paper will receive a minimum of two reviews. The papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance to the workshop topics, contributions, technical clarity, and presentation. Accepted papers require that at least one of the authors register to the workshop.
Submission website: [HERE]
Important dates
- Submission deadline for extended abstracts: 1st of September, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: 15th of September, 2020
- Workshop Date: 25th of October, 2020
Organizers
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Wansoo Kim, Post Doc, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
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Luka Peternel, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Arash Ajoudani, Principal Investigator, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
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Eiichi Yoshida, Co-director, Intelligent Systems Research Institute (IS-AIST), AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Topics of interest include
, but are not limited to:
- Physical Human-Robot Collaboration
- Human Modelling
- Human Ergonomics
- Physical Interaction Control
- Adaptation and Learning
- Industrial Robots
- Exoskeleton Robots
- Wearable Sensors
- Feedback Devices
- Shared Control
Objectives
In many industrial countries, work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) are associated with high costs to employers such as lost productivity, worker's compensation costs, and so on. WMSD risk factors include awkward posture, repetition, mechanical compression, vibration, etc. To tackle such risk factor, a workplace ergonomics assessment comprises of intervention descriptions for WMSD and the intervention strategy for reducing, eliminating, or controlling worker exposure to the WMDS risk factor. These measures aim to ensure workers' health and safety. Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) a promising concept that can potentially help with maintaining and improving ergonomics and working conditions of human co-workers. However, the traditional HRC technologies mostly focus safety in terms of collision avoidance and impact safety, while ergonomics potential is largely under-exploited. Therefore some of the major challenges and opportunities to exploit such potential are: collaborative robots have to be aware of co-worker's state and predict his/her actions; the interactive motion has to be able to reconfigure the human working conditions; the methods must operate online.
The above-mentioned challenges and opportunities present a novel research topic for the community. We previously organized two successful workshops to establish the field and to discuss this topic. We held a workshop at ICRA 2018 to introduce and discuss the concept in terms of collaborative robotics. Then we held a workshop at IROS 2019 to review the initial research progress based on the goals set at the first workshop and identify major ongoing research problems. Now it is time to discuss those problems and come up with solutions to make progress towards robust and applicable methods for ergonomic human-robot collaboration.
The proposed workshop will first follow up by reviewing the progress of the research that was initiated in the previous workshop. Then, we will focus on how to solve the problems that emerged during the research and development based on the goals that were set at the previous workshop. In addition, we will discuss potential novel research directions, ergonomic metric and robot control methods. Finally, we will discuss and design new validation methods that can be used for objective benchmarking within the field. Such an approach requires experts from various research fields and interdisciplinary discussion. For this purpose, we assemble a diverse set of organizers and speakers, who are leading experts in their respective areas that are highly relevant to this workshop topic.
In summary, the workshop goal is to bring together researchers, industry engineers, human factors researchers and medical doctors of different backgrounds and provide an opportunity to discuss and solve challenges related to developing the concept of ergonomic human-robot collaboration.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to wan-soo.kim@iit.it.