PROGRAM
Days: Thursday, August 29th Friday, August 30th Saturday, August 31st
Thursday, August 29th
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09:00-09:15 Opening remarks
Chair:
Genya Ishigami (Keio University, Japan)
Location: Main Conference Room
09:15-09:20Short Break
09:20-10:20 Session Keynote #1
Chair:
Keiji Nagatani (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Location: Main Conference Room
09:20 | Field Robotics: Ready Now for Dull, Dirty and Dangerous? (abstract) |
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Session #1: Ground Vehicles
Chairs:
Location: Main Conference Room
10:40 | Airborne Particle Classification in LiDAR Point Clouds Using Deep Learning (abstract) |
11:00 | Improvement in measurement area of three-dimensional LiDAR using mirrors mounted on mobile robots (abstract) |
11:20 | Tethered dual-wheeled robot for exploration of volcanic fumaroles on steep slopes (abstract) |
11:40 | Obstacle climbing of tracked robot for unfixed cylindrical obstacle using subtracks (abstract) |
12:00-13:00Lunch (Foyer)
13:00-14:20 Session #2: Service and Transportation
Chair:
Hiroki Nakanishi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Location: Main Conference Room
13:00 | Lessons Learned From Deploying Autonomous Vehicles at UC San Diego (abstract) |
13:20 | Pre-Robotic Navigation Identification of Pedestrian Crossings \& Their Orientations (abstract) |
13:40 | Robotic Reliability Engineering: A Story of Long-term TritonBot Development (abstract) |
14:00 | Towards Precise Robotic Grasping by Probabilistic Post-grasp Displacement Estimation (abstract) |
14:20-14:40Coffee Break
14:40-16:00 Session #3: Agriculture & Forest 1
Chairs:
Location: Main Conference Room
14:40 | Smooth Local Planning Incorporating Steering Constraints (abstract) |
15:00 | Experimental validation of structured receding horizon estimation and control for mobile ground robot slip compensation (abstract) |
15:20 | Development of HYDROVER, a Torque-Controlled Hydraulic Rover (abstract) |
15:40 | The Hulk: Design and Development of a Weather-proof Vehicle for Long-term Autonomy in Outdoor Environments (abstract) |
16:00-16:20Coffee Break
16:20-17:40 Session #4: Agriculture & Forest 2
Chairs:
Location: Main Conference Room
16:20 | Ridge-tracking for Strawberry Harvesting Support Robot According to Farmer's Behavior (abstract) |
16:40 | Automatic 3D Mapping for Tree Diameter Measurements in Inventory Operations (abstract) |
17:00 | Predicting GNSS satellite visibility from dense point clouds (abstract) |
17:20 | Large-scale 3D Mapping of Sub-arctic Forests (abstract) |
17:40-19:10Light dinner (Foyer)
Friday, August 30th
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09:00-10:20 Session #5: Space Robotics
Chairs:
Location: Main Conference Room
09:00 | Effects of Turning Radius on Skid-Steered Wheeled Robot Power Consumption on Loose Soil (abstract) |
09:20 | Actively Articulated Wheel-on-Limb Mobility for Traversing Europa Analogue Terrain (abstract) |
09:40 | Ray Tracing and Use of Shadows as Features for Determining Location in Lunar Polar Terrain (abstract) |
10:00 | Multi-Rover Exploration Strategies: Coverage Path Planning with Myopic Sensing (abstract) |
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Session #6: Aquatic robotics 1
Chair:
Francois Pomerleau (Laval University, Canada)
Location: Main Conference Room
10:40 | Multi-session lake-shore monitoring in visually challenging conditions (abstract) |
11:00 | Meander Based River Coverage by an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (abstract) |
11:20 | Dynamic Autonomous Surface Vehicle Controls Under Changing Environmental Forces (abstract) |
12:00-13:00Lunch (Foyer)
13:00-14:00 Session Keynote #2
Chair:
Kazuya Yoshida (Tohoku University, Japan)
Location: Main Conference Room
13:00 | Challenges for Social Implementation of Innovative Cybernic Systems (abstract) |
14:00-14:20Coffee Break
14:20-15:00 Session #7: Aquatic robotics 2
Chair:
Naohiro Uyama (Shimizu Corp., Japan)
Location: Main Conference Room
14:20 | Autonomous 3D Semantic Mapping of Coral Reefs (abstract) |
14:40 | Machine Learning Techniques for AUV Side Scan Sonar Data Feature Extraction as Applied to Intelligent Search for Underwater Archaeological Sites (abstract) |
15:00-15:30 Move to TechTour
6 min walk from the conference venue.
17:10-17:30 Move to Banquet
12 min walk from the conference venue.
6 min walk from the Shimizu Corp (for those who join the TechTour).
Saturday, August 31st
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09:00-10:40 Session #8: Aerial Robotics and UAVs 1
Chairs:
Location: Main Conference Room
09:00 | P-CAL: Pre-computed Alternative Lanes for Aggressive Aerial Collision Avoidance (abstract) |
09:20 | Autonomous Visual Assistance for Robot Operations Using a Tethered UAV (abstract) |
09:40 | A Planning Framework for Persistent,Multi-UAV Coverage with Global Deconfliction (abstract) |
10:00 | Fast Exploration using Multirotors: Analysis, Planning, and Experimentation (abstract) |
10:20 | Revisiting Boustrophedon Coverage Path Planning as a Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (abstract) |
10:40-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Session Keynote #3
Chair:
Genya Ishigami (Keio University, Japan)
Location: Main Conference Room
11:00 | Are We Ready for Autonomous Drones? (abstract) |
12:00-13:40Lunch (Off-campus)
13:40-14:40 Session #9: Aerial Robotics and UAVs 2
Chairs:
Satoko Abiko (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)
Wennie Tabib (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
Wennie Tabib (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
Location: Main Conference Room
13:40 | VI-SLAM for Subterranean Environments (abstract) |
14:00 | Field-hardened Robotic Autonomy for Subterranean Exploration (abstract) |
14:20 | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of Subterranean Voids with Gaussian Mixture Models (abstract) |
14:40-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:20 Session #10: Construction & Inspection
Chairs:
Location: Main Conference Room
15:00 | Tactile Inspection of Concrete Deterioration in Sewers with Legged Robots (abstract) |
15:20 | ANYmal in the Field: Solving Industrial Inspection of an Offshore HVDC Platform with a Quadrupedal Robot (abstract) |
15:40 | Autonomous Driving of Six-Wheeled Dump Truck with Retrofitted Robot (abstract) |
16:00 | Planning for Robotic Dry Stacking with Irregular Stones (abstract) |
16:20-16:30Short Break
16:50-17:30 Break & Move to Farewell dinner
8 min walk from the conference venue.
17:30-19:30 Farewell dinner
Location: Cafe Haus