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Expert Days

International Expert Days

Program*


Location: SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG
Wilhelm-Maybach-Str. 3
74336 Brackenheim-Hausen
Germany

Wednesday February 18th, 2009

08:30 – 9:30 Registration & Coffee
09:30 – 09:40 Welcome by Mr. Schunk
09:45 – 10:15 Prof. Dr. Henrik I. Christensen
Robotics: the next transformative technology
10:15 – 10:45 Prof. Naoki Muramatsu
Possibility of gripping technology using buckling phenomenon of long column
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Prof. Dr. Axel Gräser
90 minutes independence for disabled people by using rehabilitation robots
11:30 – 12:00 Riccardo Schiavi
DAVID – a rover for the moon
12:00 – 12:30 Luc Degaudenzi
Nao – a humanoid robot
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch & Exhibition
14:00 – 14:30 Dr. Ioannis Iossifidis
Anthropomorphism as a pervasive design
concept for a robotic assistant
14:30 – 15:00 Dipl.-Ing. Markus Fritzsche
LiSA – a robot with a sense of touch
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Dr. Andreas Bley
Intelligent interactive mobile service robots –
today and tomorrow
16:00 – 16:30 Dr. Lorenz Kramer
Developments, trends and challenges of
materials for mobile robotics
16:30 – 18:00 Discover SCHUNK (optional)
18:00 Get-together party
Location: SCHUNK
   

Thursday February 19th, 2009

08:30 – 08:40 Welcome (Moderator)
08:45 – 09:15 Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hägele M.S.
From industrial robots to service robots:
markets, research and product visions
09:15 – 09:45 Dr. Uwe L. Haass
Cognitive technologies pave the way for a new
generation of robots
09:45 – 10:15 Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
A new challenging application for service
robots: problems and experiences at LARM
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 Dr. James English
Configurable manipulation and grasping
11:00 – 11:30 Eric Bayrhammer
Applying virtual engineering in the
development of modular robots
11:30 – 12:00 Martin Wojtczyk
Safe design of service robots
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch & Exhibition
13:30 – 14:00 Dr. Marc Toussaint
Learning in autonomous robots – the new
challenges for machine learning research
14:00 – 14:30 Gernot Kronreif
Robot and play for education and therapy
14:30 – 15:00 M.Sc. Christopher Parlitz
Robotic home assistant “Care-O-bot”:
A case study
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 Close-up & conclusion

Lectures and discussions will be given in English.


* Preliminary program. Changes may occur.
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