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 deployment of civil robots will extend to increasingly harsh environments in domains including remote inspection and search and rescue. Applications in such environments demand robots with novel perception and cognitive abilities which require approaches different from those that work in structured or semi-structured environments under normal conditions. In this workshop, speakers will present such novel approaches in terms of new hardware, algorithms for scene interpretation and requirements from a non-academic – end user or a system integrator – perspective. A goal of the workshop is to spark extensive discussions and summarize them in domain specific requirements and predictions about future development that will be communicated to relevant topic groups (potentially including Aerial Robots, Autonomous Navigation, Civil Robots, Field/Service Robots in Unstructured Environments, Maintenance and Inspection, Perception, and Telerobotics and Teleoperation).
Agenda of the workshop
16.15 – 16.18 : Introduction by the moderator (Achim J. Lilienthal, Örebro University)
16.18 – 17.30 : Presentations by selected participants (6 times 9 min + 3 min discussion): Stefan Lang, Fraunhofer Wachtberg, Germany / Daniel Serrano, Eurecat Technology Center, Spain and Shashank Govindaraj, Space Applicaton Services, Belgium / Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany / Michael Schmuker, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK / Stefan Kohlbrecher, TU Darmstadt, Germany / Andreas Ciossek, Cobham Mission Systems, Germany
17.30 – 17.45 : Round table discussion (moderated discussion with all participants including drafting a summary and conclusions for the SPARC/H2020 roadmapping process)