PROGRAM
Days: Friday, October 17th Saturday, October 18th Sunday, October 19th
Friday, October 17th
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10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Location: Sala Caravaggio
11:00-12:30 Session 2A: Workshop: Robotic medical devices for human rehabilitation
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Location: Aula 19
11:00-12:30 Session 2C: Workshop: Translating Robotic Innovation into Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Medical Applications
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Location: Aula Magna
11:00-12:30 Session 2D: Workshop: Robotics and Emerging Technologies in Rehabilitation: The Robot as a Tool for Both Assessment and Personalized Intervention
Location: Aula 20
11:00-12:30 Session 2E: Workshop: Human-Robot Augmentation: A user-centered perspective
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Location: Aula 21
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Location: Sala Caravaggio
12:30-13:30 Session 3A: Poster Session: Robotic medical devices for human rehabilitation
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Design Process of Rigid and Soft Robotic Gloves for Hand Rehabilitation Combining Clinical Research Methodologies and Engineering Practice (abstract) |
Hierarchical Motion Control for Autonomous Wheelchairs moving in a Crowded Environment (abstract) |
Multi-Step Planning via Signal Temporal Logic for Lower Limb Exoskeletons (abstract) |
Towards Green-Aware Assistive Robotics for Sustainable Rehabilitation at UNICAL (abstract) PRESENTER: Simone Leone |
Clinical Validation of AuReha: A Wearable System for Upper-Limb Data-Driven Rehabilitation (abstract) |
Egocentric Vision Module for Adaptive Gait Planning in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons (abstract) |
12:30-13:30 Session 3B: Poster Session: Marine Robotics Workshop
Enhancing Harbor Workers’ Safety through Remote and Immersive Inspection with a Quadruped Robot (abstract) |
Social Robots Nudging in Cruise Terminals: A Large-Scale Field Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucrezia Grassi |
Pedipulation in Quadruped Robots: Toward Autonomous Model-Based Legged Manipulation (abstract) |
A new way to estimate the dynamics of an autonomous underwater vehicle using PINNs (abstract) PRESENTER: Mirco Vangi |
Towards Multi-Floor Autonomous Exploration with Semantic Mapping Integration (abstract) |
12:30-13:30 Session 3C: Poster Session: Translating Robotic Innovation into Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Medical Applications
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Robotic Applications for Safe Operations in Hospital Isolation Rooms (abstract) |
Autonomous Robotic Palpation and Abnormality Detection through Ergodic Exploration (abstract) |
Data-driven and physics-informed adaptive temperature estimation for oncological hyperthermia (abstract) |
Vision-Based Real-Time Estimation of Surgical Tissues Deformation from Video (abstract) |
Vision-Based Framework for Vessel–Instrument Distance Estimation in Robotic Prostatectomy (abstract) |
Dynamic Informed RRT* for TIAGo Service Robot Navigation in Hospital Environments: Preliminary Evaluation with Moving Obstacles (abstract) |
Toward a generalizable framework for robot-aided percutaneous surgery (abstract) |
Slope-Aware Variable Admittance for a Robotic Guide Dog (abstract) |
12:30-13:30 Session 3D: Poster Session: Robotics and Emerging Technologies in Rehabilitation: The Robot as a Tool for Both Assessment and Personalized Intervention
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Experimental Characterization of Pressure Distribution, Bandwidth, and Range of Motion in a Hybrid Elbow Exosuit (abstract) |
FES for restoring terrain-specific human locomotion (abstract) |
Sentry: An Innovative Limb-Tracking device (abstract) |
A Robotic Assessment of Cognitive and Sensorimotor Functions (abstract) |
12:30-13:30 Session 3E: Poster Session: Human-Robot Augmentation: A user-centered perspective
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Quantifying the Perceived Sense of Control in Human-Robot Interaction by Exploiting the Hand Blink Reflex (abstract) |
Evaluating Human Potential to Control Multiple Degrees of Freedom via User-Defined Lower-Limbs Movements (abstract) |
EmoACT: Integrating Identity, Impression, and Emotion for Synthetic Affective Agent (abstract) |
Proactive Motion Planning for Human-Robot Cooperation (abstract) |
Backchanneling Emotions in Human-Robot Interaction (abstract) |
Teleoperating the TIAGo Robot Using Body-Machine Interface: Preliminary Results (abstract) |
Development of an Augmented Reality-based Framework for Robot-assisted Medical Contact-Rich Tasks (abstract) |
SMPL_ROS: A ROS 2 package with Parametric Human Body Models for Robotic Applications (abstract) |
Towards Exploiting EEG in Robot Teleoperation: A Systematic Dataset Protocol for Error-Related Potentials Across Cognitive Load Levels (abstract) |
Mixed-Reality Interface for Robot Teams (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 4: Plenary Event 1 - "The Funding Dilemma in Robotics"
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Location: Aula Magna
15:00-17:30 Session 5A: Workshop: Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO2025) Focus Theme: Planning and Learning for Autonomous Robotics
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Location: Aula Magna
15:00-17:30 Session 5B: Workshop: Industry 5.0: Workplace Transformation with Next Generation Smart Robots
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Location: Aula 21
15:00-17:30 Session 5C: Workshop: How Continual Learning and Generative AI are transforming Robotics
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Location: Aula 20
15:00-17:30 Session 5D: Workshop: Dynamic Manipulation Based on Artificial Vision and Touch
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Location: Aula 19
15:00-17:30 Session 5E: Workshop: Shared Goals, Shared Spaces: Planning and Control for Trustworthy Human-Robot Collaboration
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Location: Sala Caravaggio
16:30-17:30 Session 6A: Poster Session: Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO2025) Focus Theme: Planning and Learning for Autonomous Robotics
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Investigating Knowledge Gain through Ontological Epistemics for Autonomous Robot Exploration (abstract) |
Towards Knowledge-Driven Task Planning for Contextual Autonomy in Rescue Scenarios (abstract) |
Towards a Holistic Human-centered Semantics for Collaborative Planning and Execution (abstract) |
Exploring Failure Patterns in UAVs with Transformer-Based Anomaly Detection (abstract) |
Incremental Acquisition and Composition of Robotic Manipulation Skills from Virtual Demonstrations (abstract) |
Enhanced Whale Optimization Algorithm with Novel Initialization Techniques for Global Optimization Problems in the IntelliWriter.io Tool (abstract) |
Egocentric Blind Mapless Navigation for Cognitive Robotics (abstract) |
What is the Optimal Path for a Drone Exploring a PV Plant? (abstract) PRESENTER: Michele Moriconi |
16:30-17:30 Session 6B: Poster Session: Industry 5.0: Workplace Transformation with Next Generation Smart Robots
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A Handheld Tactile Perception Device Enabling Defect Detection for Quality Inspection. (abstract) PRESENTER: Gionata Salvietti |
Hierarchical Path Planning for Multi-Robot Systems (abstract) |
Exploiting redundancy for jerk minimization in robotic manipulators (abstract) PRESENTER: Giuliano Fabris |
Two-loop decentralized admittance control for a multi-manipulator system (abstract) PRESENTER: Monica Sileo |
The Traveling Salesman Problem in parallel robotics: definitions, optimization and performance (abstract) |
Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Learning with 1D Autoencoders: Three Case Studies (abstract) PRESENTER: Adriano Liso |
Unilateral Telemanipulation System For Operator-Centered Training And Control In Industrial Robotics (abstract) |
Analytic Collision Costs for STOMP: A Geometry-Informed Framework for Manipulator Motion Planning (abstract) |
Test4You: An LLM-based Framework for Enhancing the Software Testing Process (abstract) PRESENTER: Monica Sileo |
Ergodic control for active sensing of 2D Euclidean surfaces (abstract) |
16:30-17:30 Session 6C: Poster Session: How Continual Learning and Generative AI are transforming Robotics
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A Compositional Paradigm for Foundation Models: Towards Smarter Robotic Agents (abstract) PRESENTER: Luigi Quarantiello |
Enhancing Social Robots’ Understanding: Predicate Grounding with Large Language Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Giulia Berettieri |
Empathic Response Generation via LLMs: Measuring Style Differences with Sentiment Metrics (abstract) PRESENTER: Christian Tamantini |
Collision Detection for Paths of 3D Clothoids (abstract) |
Learning Analytical Models for Soft Robot Kinematic Control (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniele Somma |
16:30-17:30 Session 6D: Poster Session: Dynamic Manipulation Based on Artificial Vision and Touch
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HAWK4Label: Efficient Weak-Supervised Method for Object Segmentation Labeling (abstract) |
Mitigating Cultural Underrepresentation in Image Classification: A Comparative Study of Data Augmentation Techniques (abstract) |
Sensorless Localization and Estimation of External Contact Force (abstract) |
Vision-based Robotic Arm Control and Tactile Sensing for Dice Manipulation (abstract) |
Smart Mobile Manipulation for Flexible Manufacturing: GoFaGO (abstract) |
Robot Programming by Demonstration: Segmentation and Via-Set Optimization (abstract) |
Learning Coordinated Pushing Actions for Grasp-Based Occluded Object Retrieval in Cluttered Environments (abstract) |
Compliant Non-Prehensile Pushing Manipulation (abstract) |
16:30-17:30 Session 6E: Poster Session: Shared Goals, Shared Spaces: Planning and Control for Trustworthy Human-Robot Collaboration
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Achieving Human-Like Movements with Neural Network-Based Planner in Collaborative Robotics (abstract) |
Energy-Aware Admittance Control for Human-Robot Interaction (abstract) |
Motion Execution Algorithm for Smooth Dynamic Replanning in HRC (abstract) |
Human Motion Prediction using Interacting Multiple Model Filtering enhanced by a Kinematic Model (abstract) |
Digital Model-Based Optimization of Mobile Manipulators for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks (abstract) |
Grasping moving objects through human-like motions (abstract) |
Sequential Control of Attention and Opinion Dynamics in Human–Robot Systems (abstract) |
Planning with Natural Language for Task-Oriented Robots (abstract) |
Trajectory-Safe Orienteering for Human-Robot Shared Environments (abstract) |
Saturday, October 18th
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10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Location: Sala Caravaggio
11:00-11:30 Session 10: RoboIT
Location: Aula Magna
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Location: Sala Caravaggio
14:30-15:30 Session 13: Plenary Event 2 - "Do we really need humanoids?"
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Location: Aula Magna
15:30-17:00 Session 14A: Workshop: Out of the Lab: Challenges and Opportunities in Field Robotics
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Location: Aula Magna
15:30-17:00 Session 14B: Workshop: Robotics for neurorehabilitation: opportunities and challenges to address unmet clinical needs and promote a sustainable integration with AI
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Location: Aula 20
15:30-17:00 Session 14D: Workshop: Prosthetic limbs: from mechanical design to closed-loop control
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Location: Aula 21
17:00-18:00 Coffee break
Location: Sala Caravaggio
17:00-18:00 Session 15A: Poster Session: Out of the Lab: Challenges and Opportunities in Field Robotics
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Autonomous Forest Navigation and Mapping: Field Validation of a Mobile Robotic System (abstract) |
Extremum Seeking Control for Beacon Detection in Avalanche Disasters using Multiple UAV (abstract) PRESENTER: Joel Enrique Esparza Ramirez |
Towards Social Navigation on a Quadruped Robot: Analyzing DINOv2 Visual Representations for Indoor Scene Understanding (abstract) |
Smart Robotics in Viticulture: Enhancing Monitoring and Manipulation (abstract) |
Towards Intelligent Costruction Machines: the Gigabot (abstract) |
Autonomous quadruped robot for 5G spectrum coverage measurements (abstract) |
Development of a Cable-Driven Hyper-Redundant Robot with Flexure Hinges-Based Modules (abstract) |
VAT4MAV: Visual Active Tracking for Micro Aerial Vehicles (abstract) |
APF-Based Control with Vortex Fields for Precise Robotic Manipulation in Grapevine Winter Pruning (abstract) |
Online Object-Level Semantic Mapping for Quadrupeds in Real-World Environments (abstract) |
Performance Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Learning Navigation in Unstructured Environments (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 15B: Poster Session: Robotics for neurorehabilitation: opportunities and challenges to address unmet clinical needs and promote a sustainable integration with AI
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A Custom 3D-printed Hand Long Finger Exoskeleton (abstract) |
Experimental Setup and Performance Assessment of a Wearable Embedded System for Human Hand Grasp Recognition via Differential Capacitive Sensing and Deep Learning (abstract) |
SMPL-Based Estimation of Gait Joint Angles for Rehabilitation Applications (abstract) |
Identifying Key Parameters in Physiotherapists’ Decision-Making for Robot-Aided Rehabilitation (abstract) |
Advanced digital platform to monitor, assess and train people with neurocognitive impairments (abstract) |
A Smart Robotic Platform for Cognitive Rehabilitation Based on Multimodal User State Monitoring (abstract) |
Preliminary development of AGLAIA platform: toward integrated sensorimotor and cognitive assessment (abstract) |
17:00-18:00 Session 15C: Poster Session: Touch science and Engineering
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Location: Sala Caravaggio
Multi-Modal Fingertip for Contact Detection and Orientation Estimation (abstract) PRESENTER: Olga Pennacchio |
Medical Patch for Haptics-enabled Mechanotherapy (abstract) |
Multi-Touch Characterization of the SoftMag Tactile Sensor (abstract) |
Enabling Tactile Feedback in Robotic Manipulation via FBG Sensors and Haptic Interfaces (abstract) |
An Ultrathin and Lightweight Soft Inflatable Actuator for Natural Tactile Sensory Feedback (abstract) |
Real-time Contact Encoding based on Tactile information (abstract) |
Ergodic tactile estimation of defects (abstract) |
Thunder_Dynamics: an Application to Elastic Systems (abstract) |
A Direct-drive Haptic Thimble for Fine Tactile Feedback in Virtual and Robotic Manipulation (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniele Leonardis |
17:00-18:00 Session 15D: Poster Session: Prosthetic limbs: from mechanical design to closed-loop control
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Compliant element design for shape-adaptive linkage-driven prosthetic fingers (abstract) |
V-Soft Pro: Toward Natural Bionic Limbs via Soft Robotics and Variable Stiffness Actuation (abstract) |
On the integration of strain gauges in an additive manufactured prosthetic phalanx (abstract) |
Preliminary Validation of an Adaptive Prosthesis Wrist-Hand Control Strategy (abstract) |
Lower limb sensory feedback restoration for terrain recognition via TENS (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrea Demofonti |
Sunday, October 19th
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