The CloPeMa project has come to an end. At the final review meeting, CloPeMa received an ’Excellent’ mark which is the highest possible accolade for an European project!!
The success of this project was thanks to the collaboration and efforts of all partners! Keep tune for extra information and more awesome results…
Overview: International experts will present the current state-of-the-art in systems for robotic manipulation of flexible materials. The workshop will address the challenges found in sensing, perception, cognition, planning and handling, as well as manipulator design. Expertise and capability in dexterous manipulation of flexible materials being of critical importance to EU manufacturing robotics, this workshop is intended to serve as a forum to identify key unsolved problems in this field. We also intend this workshop to act as a catalyst for forming new collaborations targeting Horizon 2020 robotics funding.
13.30 Introduction by the Chair: Dr W. Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, UK
13.50 Presentations I
Byphasic fluid variable stiffness actuation and tactile sensing in a flexible hand for manipulation of garments: Dr Matteo Zoppi/Prof. Giorgio Cannata, University of Genoa, Italy
Autonomous unfolding of garments: Dr Sotiris Malassiotis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
A unified computational framework for prosthetic manipulation: Prof. Hongai Liu, University of Portsmouth, UK
Understanding, dual-arm folding of a piece of garment on the CloPeMa test bed: Prof. Vaclav Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
15:30 Coffee & Networking
16:00 Presentations II
Mechanisms of the human hand, and how to emulate them: Dr Nick Hockings, University of Bath, UK
Algorithms for nonrigid object reconstruction and recognition: Dr Francesc Moreno, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Spain
Active Binocular Range Sensing and Interpretation for Clothing Manipulation: Dr Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa, University of Glasgow, UK
The Shadow Dexterous Hand: Rich Walker, The Shadow Robot Company, UK
A CloPeMa team will run an ICRA Workshop on Advances in Robot Manipulation of Clothes and Flexible Objects on 1st June 2014 in Hong Kong. The problem of manipulating and handling deformable and flexible objects is a great challenge in the development of robots capable of performing actions usually carried out by humans. It holds a great variety of technical challenges in new and advanced modelling, sensing, actuation planning and control technologies.
This ICRA workshop is aimed at the aspects related to the manipulation of flexible objects in the areas of: vision, planning, grasping, manipulation and interaction control, haptics, human-robot interaction, cognitive robotics, AI and others. It will, for instance, address technological aspects such as gripper design for advanced manipulation of flexible objects and visual and touch based coordinated robot control for execution of complex tasks. Furthermore it will give detailed insights into the cognitive, sensing and modelling issues in manipulation of flexible objects and is a chance to hear about and discuss the latest advancements.
The ICRA workshop is a great opportunity to meet and talk to the experts, such as, Sotiris Malassiotis, Vaclav Hlavak, Giorgio Cannata, Andreas Doumanoglou and other CloPeMa members. Register here.
Also the paper Autonomous Active Recognition and Unfolding of Clothes using Random Decision Forests and Probabilistic Planning will be presented in the main conference. Authors: Andreas Doumanoglou, Andreas Kargakos, Tae-Kyun Kim, Sotiris Malassiotis
Dr. Gerardo Aragon Camarasa at the CloPeMa stand, SICSA Demofest’13
CloPeMa Glasgow presented the CloPeMa project at the SICSA Demofest’13.
We had the great opportunity to present our research to a variety of industry partners on the 5th of November 2013, at the SICSA Demofest. SICSA stands for Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, who created the Demofest as an event to introduce industry to ongoing academic research. It is a chance to find industry partners who are interested in investing and collaborating in cutting edge research around the country.