Achieving robust autonomy in robotics is challenged by sensor data reliability, especially in extreme environments. Conventional sensors like RGB cameras fail in low-visibility conditions (e.g., smoke, fog, low light), while active sensors such as Radar and Lidar struggle with reflective medium and particle obscurants and often lack dense information at close range. Thermal infrared cameras […]
Robot and automation systems are expected to carry out increasingly sophisticated tasks in complex environments. This places stringent expectations on their autonomy stack to enforce operational constraints and safety guarantees. Safe control synthesis methods, including model predictive control, reachability analysis, and control barrier functions, commonly rely on explicit mathematical definitions of safety constraints with known […]
Emerging robotic exoskeletons have the potential to enhance performance of non-disabled users, restore normative leg biomechanics to impaired users, or rehabilitate limb function after neurological disorders. However, these devices have not been widely adopted due to their rigidity, bulkiness, acoustic noise, cost, battery life, and/or non-intuitive control. While parallel industries are providing powerful, lightweight, and […]
The Long-term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) workshop, taking place every ICRA in 2019--2024, offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss the many facets of modeling human motion and behavior in various automated systems. To reflect the broad range of engineering challenges in human-aware systems, we organize the talks […]
In the field, we throw robots into the wild to achieve what seems a simple task, that quickly ends up being arduous. As experts, we continuously loop through designing, developing, deploying, and analyzing our autonomous systems until it meets some level of success. From marine to forestry, from mining to agriculture, no matter the various […]
RSA25 is intended to create a forum where researchers, practitioners, and professionals can discuss on principles and practice in the use of advanced software development techniques for building robot software architectures. The Robotics community is aware of the importance that software development principles have in building advanced robotics systems. Several interesting initiatives are taking place […]
Field robotics tackles the problem of developing, deploying, and evaluating autonomous mobile systems in unstructured and often dynamic environments. Typical commercial applications are in agriculture, construction, mining, and forestry. The range of physical mediums is also very diversified: in the air, on the ground, underground, on the water, and underwater. These can be located on […]
Bi- and multi-stable structures, as well as origami structures, can rapidly release elastic energy during transitions between different equilibrium shapes. These snap-through transitions between stable configurations are characterized by rapid and amplified motions. In recent years, the application of bi- and multi-stability to soft actuators and robots has attracted significant research interest. These works demonstrated […]
This workshop explores the reliability and trustworthiness of embodied AI systems in real-world deployments across a variety of everyday scenarios. It brings together tools and methodologies from fields such as computer vision, machine learning, planning, control, and formal methods, all aimed at improving AI robustness and dependability. The workshop will also highlight current challenges, identifying […]
Robotic operation in space faces a consistent trade-off between building simple and resilient systems to withstand the extreme conditions, and maintaining flexibility in the robot system to keep up with rapidly changing conditions. Soft robotics offers the promise of robotic performance in unstructured environments. This workshop will bring together two fields to discuss challenges and […]