ERF 2016 / Programme
Organiser
SILVER (Supporting Independent Living for the Elderly through Robotics) consortium
Contact person: Anne-Mari SANDELL, Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland
The EU funded SILVER project seeks new technologies to assist elderly people in their everyday...
As in all previous annual ERFs, the Opening Session is an opportunity to shed light on “the state of robotics” by forecasting disruptive innovations made possible by scientific developments,...
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Marko Munih, Faculty of Electrical Enginering, University of Ljubljana, Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slovenian robotics started in late seventies by developing industrial robot manipulators. Today, a number of enterprises in Slovenia...
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Uwe HAASS, Consultant, Germany
It is important that Europe is not falling apart into those regions which have high tech industries, high employment and wealth, and those with mostly manual labour, low...
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Ali, MUHAMMAD, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
The session will focus on match making between the business needs of manufacturing SMEs and robotics technology suppliers. The session will also advertise...
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Martin Haegele, Head of Department Robot and Assistive Systems, Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart
The euRobotics Technology Transfer Award, now in its 13th edition, is seen as one of the ERF’s most prominent activities.
Successful...
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Gerhard KRAETZSCHMAR, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, Germany
The Georges Giralt PhD Award in Robotics (GGA) is the most prestigious PhD award in the robotics area in Europe. The award winner gets the opportunity to...
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Gianluca ANTONELLI, University of Cassino, Italy
Francesco BASILE, University of Salerno, Italy
Pedro LIMA, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Alan WINFIELD, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
The workshop is aimed at opening a discussion...
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Cécile HUET, European Commission, Luxembourg
Don’t miss the official presentation of the new H2020 Robotics projects and their contribution to the SPARC strategy!
In 90 minutes you will have the full overview...
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Olivier DA COSTA, Cécile HUET, Franco MASTRODDI, European Commission, DG CONNECT, Unit A2 – Robotics
The objectives of the session are:
1) To demonstrate the contribution of EU funding to the field...
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Piotr KASZA, AGH University of Science and Technology Cracow, Poland
• Presentation of the mining TG
• Determine the specific characteristics and requirements of mining robotics by end user
• Presentation of robotic (mechatronics,...
Organisers
Anibal Ollero, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Ekkehard Zwicker, Alstom Inspection Robotics, Switzerland
The interest of the application of Aerial Robotics to Inspection and Maintenance is very evident today, including industrial plants, the...
Organisers
Achim J. LILIENTHAL, Örebro University, Sweden
Jesús ALFONSO, ITA, Spain
Todor STOYANOV, Örebro University, Sweden
This workshop is being organised by the euRobotics Topic Group for robots in logistics and transport. The main...
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Amit Kumar PANDEY, Aldebaran Robotics, SoftBank Group, Paris, France
Alberto SANNA, eServices for Life and Health, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Smart City, Milano, Italy
Liming CHEN, Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, The...
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Anders Billesø Beck, DTI, Danmark
Thilo Zimmermann, GPS, Germany
The fourth Industrial Revolution was a main theme at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos and the topic has reached worldwide attention.
Digitising...
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Jon AZPIAZU, SINTEF, Norway
Lars Dalgaard, DTI, Denmark
Adam Dabrowski, PIAP, Poland
A key element when bringing some of the newer robotic applications into industry is to do it in an efficient way....
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Cécile HUET, European Commission
Mariusz BALDYGA , European Commission
Magdalena SZWOCHERTOWSKA , European Commission
This session will explain the concept of Robotics Innovation Hubs (RIH) and present existing instantiations funded by FP7-H2020 (Echord++,...
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Cécile Huet – European Commission
Mariusz Baldyga – European Commission
Magdalena Szwochertowska – European Commission
The EU has put in place a series of measures within the framework of the Horizon 2020 programme...
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• Anne Bajart – European Commission
• Bjoern Juretzki – European Commission
• Magdalena Szwochertowska – European Commission
This workshop will introduce a pillar of the new EC policy “Digitising the European Industry”:...
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Anne Bajart - European Commission
Bjoern Juretzki – European Commission
This workshop will introduce the new EC policy “Digitising the European Industry”, in particular the pillar on “smart regulation for smart industry”. There...
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Petra KOUDELKOVÁ DELIMOGES, Aldebaran, France
Universities, engineering schools, primary and specialized schools have started using robot-enhanced programs as new pedagogical paths. Using robotics in education motivates students for technical studies. It opens...
Organisers
Christophe Leroux, CEA Tech, France
Francesco Maurelli, TUM Munich, Germany
Ali Muhammad, VTT, Finland
Brane Semolic, TCS with LENS Living Lab, Slovenia
The objectives of the workshop are to inform the participants about existing...
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• Antonio Puente – European Commission
• Mariusz Baldyga – European Commission
This workshop will introduce the Second Pillar of the new EC policy “Digitising the European Industry”: leadership in platforms for...
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Christophe Leroux, CEA LIST, France
Vincent C. Müller, Anatolia College/ACT
The workshop will be the opportunity to share information about ELS in robotics. The workshop is divided into two sessions presenting two...
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Tamim ASFOUR, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Anne BAJART, European Commission, Robotics
Ales UDE, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Norbert KRÜGER, University of Southern Denmark
The workshop intends to reflect the impact of...
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Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Sweden
Markus Vincze, Technical University Wien, Austria
Vincent C. Müller, Anatolia College, Greece
While many current EU projects are dealing with the use of AI and Cognition technologies in...
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David VERNON, University of Skövde Sweden
Markus VINCZE, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
SPARC - The Partnership for Robotics in Europe - brings together euRobotics aisbl and the European Commission. It is supported...
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David VERNON, University of Skövde Sweden
Markus VINCZE, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
SPARC - The Partnership for Robotics in Europe - brings together euRobotics aisbl and the European Commission. It is supported...
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Ekki Zwicker, GE Inspection Robotics, Switzerland
Hakon Ferkingstad, GASSCO, Norway
Tjibbe Bouma, SPRINT Robotics, Netherlands
The session will give an overview of how robotics is deployed in the process industry today, what the...
Organisers
Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)
Konstantinos Loupos, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)
Juan G. Victores, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid RoboticsLab (UC3M)
The aim of this workshop is to...
Organisers
Michaël GAUTHIER, Institute FEMTO-ST, France
Patrick COURTNEY, tec-connection, Germany
This workshop will reinforce the connections of the TG on Miniaturised Robotics with two other communities:
• the EPoSS platform dealing with Smart Systems Integration;
•...
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Jan VENEMAN; Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain
José PONS; Spanish Research Council, CSIC, Spain
This session intends to support the European development of Wearable Robotics by bringing together academia and the potential user...
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Jon Agirre Ibarbia, Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Renaud Champion, Primnex
Geoff Pegman, R U Robots
The Entrepreneurship workshop provides the ability for small innovative companies to pitch their ideas for the next big...
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Jon Agirre Ibarbia, Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Renaud Champion, Primnex
Geoff Pegman, R U Robots
The Entrepreneurship workshop provides the ability for small innovative companies to pitch their ideas for the next big...
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Jon Agirre Ibarbia, Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Renaud Champion, Primnex
Geoff Pegman, R U Robots
The Entrepreneurship workshop provides the ability for small innovative companies to pitch their ideas for the next big...
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Jon Agirre Ibarbia, Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Renaud Champion, Primnex
Geoff Pegman, R U Robots
Since 2012 at the ERF held in Odense we have organized a series of workshops for promoting Entrepreneurship...
Organisers
Tamás, HAIDEGGER, Óbuda University, Hungary
Paolo, BARATTINI, Kontor 46, Italy
Gurvinder, VIRK, Gävle University, Sweden
This is a two-part workshop. Half of the workshop is dedicated to presentations from leading standardization and research...
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Tamás, HAIDEGGER, Óbuda University, Hungary
Paolo, BARATTINI, Kontor 46, Italy
Gurvinder, VIRK, Gävle University, Sweden
This is a two-part workshop. Half of the workshop is dedicated to presentations from leading standardization and research...
Organisers
Marie-Luise Neitz, TUM, Germany
Francesco Maurelli, TUM, Kosmo Strategio, Germany
An increasing number of Horizon 2020 calls include cascading funding (financial support to third parties, FSTP) in order to allow for a...
Organisers
Andreas, MUELLER, Institute of Robotics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, Association for Robots in Architecture
Construction and demolition have so far seen the least use of robotic technology to date. On...
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Franco Mastroddi, European Commission, Luxembourg
Cécile Huet, European Commission, Luxembourg
Within H2020, robotics appears not only ICT but also in several other topics related to e.g. Factories of the Future, agriculture, marine,...
Organiser
Cécile Huet, European Commission
IoT and Robotics are expected to revolutionize industries and services. This workshop will address the interplay between the two: namely, how can robotics benefit from IoT and the...
Recent Progress in Research Reproducibility in Robotics: A Critical Enabler of Research Exploitation
Organiser
Fabio BONSIGNORIO, The BioRobotics Institute, SSSA and Heron Robots, Italy
Significant progress has been made in the replicability of results in robotics research and their objective evaluation and comparison in recent years....
Organisers
Ales Ude, Jozef Stefan Institute
Igor Kovac, Jozef Stefan Institute
Christian Schlette, RWTH Aachen
Rune Larsen, Blue Ocean Robotics
T. Rajeeth Savarimuthu, University of Southern Denmark
Rapid changes in market demands lead to decreasing...
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Ladislav VARGOVCIK, ZTS VVU KOSICE a.s., Slovakia
Operations in harsh environment represent a typical application of robots protecting human health and life from danger.
But cases like Fukushima, terrorist attacks on chemical...
Organisers
Massimo CACCIA, CNR-ISSIA, Italy
Ahmed CHEMORI, LIRMM-CNRS, France
Vincent CREUZE, GDR Robotics, LIRMM, France
Eleni PATOUNI, CMRE, Italy
This workshop will be dedicated to marine robotics. It follows the three successful previous editions (at...
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Daniel NOELKE, German Aerospace Center (DLR) - Space Administration, GERMANY
The PERASERA consortium developed a roadmap as an input to the EC’s Horizon 2020 Strategic Research Cluster “Space
Robotics Technologies”.
This session will give...
Organisers
Rustam STOLKIN and Ales LEONARDIS, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jeff KUO, National Nuclear Lab, United Kingdom
Mathieu GROSSARD, CEA, France
Nuclear decommissioning is potentially the biggest and most impactful application for real-world service...
Organisers
Ernesto Gambao, Centre for Automation and Robotics. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Dragoljub Surdilovic, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
Tapio Heikilla, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland
The industrial production in Europe is...
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Patrick COURTNEY, tec-connection, Germany
Laboratory Robotics is a neglected application of robotics which nonetheless is a European strength worth some €3bn pa with valid business models and rapidly evolving needs and enabling...
Organisers
Dr. Makris Sotiris (LMS, University of Patras), Greece
Dr. George Michalos (LMS, University of Patras), Greece
Iñaki Maurtua (IK4-TEKNIKER), Spain
Ramez Awad (Fraunhofer IPA), Germany
Continue the dialogue among the projects themselves, as...
Organisers
Dr Ferdinando CANNELLA, AIAL-ADVR - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)
Dr Sotiris MAKRIS, LMS – University of Patras (Greece)
Dr Matteo ZOPPI, DIMEC - Università di Genova (Italy)
Industry 4.0 aims at...
Organisers
Christophe Leroux, CEA LIST, France
Thierry Keller, Tecnalia, Spain
Healthcare is one of the major priorities in Europe. ICT and robotics are key enablers to address the socioeconomic challenges. The TG is highly...
Organisers
Marta Capiluppi, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy
Agnieszka Wykowska, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, Technical University Munich, Germany
This session aims at bringing together researchers from various fields: robotics, cognitive...
Organisers
Marta Capiluppi, University of Verona, Italy
Stefano Stramigioli, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Riccardo Muradore, University of Verona, Italy
Robotics allows surgeons to improve the quality of many critical tasks and make possible...
Organisers
Prof. Paolo Dario, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Dr. Gastone Ciuti, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
The workshop is intended to address state of the art, research...
Organisers
Fabio BONSIGNORIO, The BioRobotics Institue, SSSA and Heron Robots, Italy
Filippo CAVALLO, The BioRobotics Institue, SSSA, Italy
Paolo DARIO, The BioRobotics Institue, SSSA, Italy
Future service robotics will help and assist persons of...
Organisers
Jacek Malec, Lund University, Sweden
Saadia Dhouib
Tamas Haidegger
Alexander Perzylo
Moritz Tenorth
There is intensive research and development activity in providing and making use of semantically meaningful information in robotic systems. In particular, besides the...
Organisers
Dr. Michael SUPPA, Roboception GmbH, Germany
Prof. Darius BURSCHKA, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Prof Achim J. LILIENTHAL, University of Orebro, Sweden
Perception is the key technology allowing automatic adaptation of the...
Organisers
Achim J. LILIENTHAL, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
Lukas SILBERBAUER, taurob GmbH, Austria
Oskar VON STRYK, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Bernardo WAGNER, Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Germany
Gerald STEINBAUER, TU Graz, Austria
In the next few years, the...
ERF 2016 / Call for workshops
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