Program

Half-Day Workshop FrC4
Room: 35, 36

13:30 – 13:40 Welcome

13:40 – 14:10 Sung-Hee Lee [KAIST, Korea] (slides)
Title: “Damage Minimization of Humanoid Robots by Falling on Targeted Body Segments.”
14:10 – 14:40 Abderrahmane Kheddar [CNRS, France] (slides)
Title: “Reducing Damage in Humanoid Falls using Closed-Loop Posture Reshaping and Active Compliance.”
14:40 – 15:10 Sven Behnke [Univ of Bonn, Germany] (slides)
Title: “Instability Detection and Disturbance Rejection for Bipedal Walking.”

15:10 – 15:20 Poster Session (slides)
1. A. Cully, J. Cline, D. Tarapore, J-B. Mouret [INRIA, France]
“Robots that can Recover from Damage in Minutes”
2. J. Kuehn, J. Vorndamme, M. Schappler, S. Haddadin [Leibniz Univ. of Hanover, Germany]
“Humanoid Collision Reflex Sequences based on an artificial Robot Nervous System including Contact Location and Direction”
3. Y. Zhao, L. Sentis [The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA]
“Robust Optimal Control and High-Level Planner Synthesis for Locomotion over Various Terrain Topologies”
4. B. Tam, N. Kottege [CSIRO, Australia]
“Fall Avoidance and Recovery for a Bipedal Robot with Walking Sticks” and “Real-time Slip Detection and Recovery for a Hexapod Robot”
5. J. Lee, W. Choi, D. Kanoulas, R. Subburaman, D. Caldwell, and N. Tsagarakis [IIT, Italy]
“Development of Modular and Active Impact Protection System for Humanoids Falling”

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 – 16:00 Poster Session [Room M1, outside A1]

16:00 – 16:30 Karen Liu [Georgia Tech, USA] (slides)
Title: “Contact Planning for Minimizing Damage of Humanoid Falls.”
16:30 – 17:00 Zhibin Li [Edinburgh Univ., UK] (slides)
Title: “Online Detection of Balance Status of Legged Robots towards Versatile Whole-body Locomotion.”
17:00 – 17:30 Kenji Hashimoto, Gan Ma [Waseda, Japan] (slides)
Title: “Fall Prevention, Damage Reduction, and Novel Locomotion Style to Avoid Falling for Legged Robot.”
17:30 – 18:00 Libo Meng, Zhangguo Yu, Qiang Huang [Beijing Inst. of Tech., China] (slides)
Title: “Damage Protection for Humanoid Robots Inspired by Human Falling”

18:00 Closing Remarks