RoboTac18: An International Workshop on New Progress in Tactile Perception and Learning in Robotics |
Website | http://www.ics.ei.tum.de/robotac18/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotac18 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 15, 2018 |
Submission deadline | August 15, 2018 |
Objective
The sense of touch plays an important role in our daily lives from perceiving the environment, grasping and manipulating objects to identifying, learning about and interacting with them. Compensating for the lack of touch with other human senses is difficult. For robotic systems that interact with dynamic environments and objects therein, it is crucial to recognize objects via their physical properties (such as surface texture, stiffness, a center of mass, and thermal conductivity) and to be able to safely manipulate them. However, these are difficult to achieve even with advanced vision techniques, which are often marred by occlusion, poor lighting situations, and a lack of precision. As an alternative, tactile sensing can simultaneously provide rich and direct feedback to the robotic systems. Moreover, the robots with the sense of touch need to learn continuously and efficiently from tactile experience and update their models of the objects and environment (Tactile Transfer knowledge). This tactile learning strategy keeps a robot stable and adaptable to respond to new stimuli receiving from the surrounding.
Intended Audiences
Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions regarding any robotics application where tactile sensing modalities are used. As we aim to encourage meaningful discussion in the tactile perception and learning domain, work that is unpublished, recently published or under review can be accepted for presentation depending on the novelty, significance and contributions of the work to the workshop theme.
We solicit contributions in the form of extended abstracts (min 2 pages, max 4 pages) in IEEE paper format (author information available here), to be presented at the workshop as posters. Outstanding contributions will be selected for oral presentations.
Accepted papers and eventual supplementary material will be made available on the workshop website. However, this does not constitute an archival publication and no formal workshop proceedings will be made available, meaning contributors are free to publish their work in archival journals or conference.
Please submit your contribution via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotac18
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2018
Camera-Ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018
Invited Speakers
- Prof. Roland Johansson, Umeå University, Sweden
- Prof. Allison Okamura, Stanford University, USA
- Prof. Ravinder Dahiya, University of Glasgow, UK
- Prof. Akihiko Yamaguchi, Tohoku University, JAPAN
- Dr. Robert Haschke, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Prof. Alberto Rodriguez, MIT, USA,
- Prof. Huaping Liu, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Prof. Oliver Kroemer, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
- Prof. Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Dr. Lorenzo Natale, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
- Dr. Yasemin Bekiroglu, Vicarious AI, CA, USA
- Dr. Mohsen Kaboli, Technical University of Munich, German
List of Topics
Tactile Learning and Control
- Touch physiology from the skin to brain
- Haptic Perception
- Action and Perception Loop
- Perception of Learning
Tactile Learning and Control
- Tactile exploration
- Tactile-based object modeling and recognition
- Tactile based grasping and in hand manipulation
- Tactile Transfer Learning
- Tactile Human-Robot Interaction
Tactile Perception in Robotics
- Contact Level Information
- Object Level Information
- Action Level Information
- Tactile Information Processing
- Tactile Feature Extraction / Feature Learning
Tactile Sensing in Robotics
- Flexible and Stretchable Tactile Sensors
- Multimodal Tactile Sensors
- Pre-touch Sensing
- Sensor Coverage
Organizing committee
- Dr. Mohsen Kaboli, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS), Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Prof. Jeannette Bohg, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
- Dr. Qiang Li, Senior Researcher Neuroinformatics Group / CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Filipe Veiga, Research Assistant, Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Harry Zhe Su, Research Assistant, Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab, University of Southern California, USA
- Prof. Gordon Cheng, Professor, Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS), Technical University of Munich, Germany
Venue
We propose a full day workshop on October 1, 2018, Madrid, Spain.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to mohsen.kaboli@tum.de