RISE2010 Program (version 9-12-09) Wednesday 20 January (Latest update: 17/12/09)

9.00 Opening:
Welcome by Prof. Chris Care director SHU-MERI
Short introduction to IARP G. Pegman
Short introduction to the Guardians Project, Jacques Penders, Enric Cervera
Short introduction to the ViewFinder Project, Jacques Penders, Yvan Baudoin

9.45-10.30 Towards an Urban Cooperative and Autonomous Navigation System
Prof. Philippe Martinet (Invited Speaker)

10.30-10-45 Coffee break

---Map Building and Reconstruction---
chair: Geoff Pegman

10.45-11.05 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Geo-referenced Images
S.A..Berrabah and Y.Baudoin.

11.05-11.25 Analysis of the local statistics at the centre of fixation during visual scene exploration.
Andrea Carbone and Fiora Pirri.

11.25-11.45 Vision Based 3D SLAM with Plane Landmarks
Lin Li Matteo Matteucci Andrea Bonarini.

11.45-12.05 Comparative Presentation of Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms Using Solely Stereo Vision
Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos.

12.05-12.25 Processing photo-realistic models: Analysis and Simplification
L. Alboul and G. Chliveros

12.30-13.50 Lunch

13.50-14.10 On-line and Off-line 3D Reconstruction for Crisis Management Applications
Geert De Cubber.

--- Swarm Navigation ---
chair: Yvan Baudoin

14.10-14.30 Robocoop: tools for cooperative mobile robots autonomous navigation
Annemarie Kokosy, Hugues Sert, Wilfrid Perruquetti andThierry Floquet

14.30-14.50 Localization of networked mobile sensors and actuators in low-visibility conditions
Sales J., El-Habbal M., Marín R., Witkowski U., Cervera E., Nomdedeu L., Rückert U.

14.50-15.10 GUARDIANS multi-robot team as a self-organising system
Lyuba Alboul, Hussein Abdul-Rachman, Paul Haynes, Jacques Penders, Joăo Duro and Julien Tharin,

15.10-15.30 Coffee Break

---- Users ----
chair: Jacques Penders

15.30-15.50 User interfaces for direct and remote HRI for a swarm of robots assisting fire-fighters
Jeremi Gancet, Elvina Motard, Amir M. Naghsh and Chris R. Roast.

15.50-16.10 Could machines be responsible for a major disaster?
Danny Weston.

16.10-16.30 Robotic Visions: Young people’s views on intelligent robotics
Claire Rocks

16.30-17.10 Demonstrations

DINNER: At the Cutler's Hall, Church Street, Sheffield City Centre from 19.30

Thursday 21 January

9.15 -10.00 Design and Navigation of Wheeled and Flying Robots for Surveillance and Inspection
Roland Siegwart ETH Zurich (Invited speaker)

10.00-10.15 Coffee Break

---Sensing---
chair: Yvan Baudoin

10.15-10.25 Towards biomimetic vibrissal tactile sensing for robot exploration, navigation, and object recognition in hazardous environments

Tony Prescott, Ben Mitchinson, Charles Fox, Mat Evans, Sean Anderson, Martin Pearson, John C. Sullivan, Tony Pipe.

10.25-10.45 Highly Reliable Distributed Fault Diagnosing Module for Robotic Manipulator Joints
Hamid Abdi, Saeid Nahavandi

10.45-11.05 An eye-in-hand surveillance camera for human patrolling assistance of secured areas
Fabio P. Bonsignorio

11.05-11.25 ATRVJr – mobile robot for Fire Fighter Services
Janusz Bedkowski, Piotr Kowalski, Jakub Piszczek, Andrzej Masłowski.

11.25-11.45 Parallel parking control of autonomous vehicles using Extended Kalman and Particle Filtering
G.G. Rigatos

11.45-12.05 Robust Multihop Communication for Mobile Applications
Stefan Herbrechtsmeier, Mohamed El‐Habbal, Ulrich Rückert, Ulf Witkowski

12.05-12.20 Exploring Microwave sensors for Robot navigation
Jorge Gasco Monsalve and Alan Holloway.

12.25-13.30 Lunch

---- Crisis Management and Planning ---
chair: Enric Cervera

13.30-13.50 Securing Hostile Terrain with a Robot Team
Kristel Verbiest, Eric Colon

13.50-14.10 Protecting Assets within a Civilian Harbour through the Use of a Team of USVs: Interception of Possible Menaces
Enrico Simetti, Alessio Turetta, Giuseppe Casalino, Enrico Storti and Matteo Cresta.

14.10 - 14.30 Grid based next best view planning for an autonomous robot in indoor environments
Marcus Strand and Rudiger Dillmann

14.30-14.50 Decentralized Multi-Robot Coordination for Risky Interventions
Daniela Doroftei, Eric Colon.

14.50-15.10 Competing in the RoboCup Rescue Robot League
Michael Tandy, Stefan Winkvist.

15.10-15.20 Coffee Break

--- Robot middleware ---
chair: Lyuba Alboul

15.20-15.40 Augmented reality approach for mobile multi-robotic system development and integration Janusz Będkowski, Andrzej Masłowski.

15.40-16.00 A unified methodology for swarm algorithm development and evolution
Rene Jespersen, Simon Bjerg Mikkelsen, Trung Dung Ngo.

16.00-16.20 eTraining in RISE (Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance)
Marek Kacprzak, Andrzej Kaczmarczyk, Andrzej Masłowski, Janusz Będkowski, Piotr Kowalski, Tomasz Pichlak, Jakub Piszczek, Paweł Musialik.

16.20-16.40 Round Table discussion chair Y. Baudoin,
16.40-16.50 Closure