When you think about a robot, what comes to mind? A humanoid, quadruped, quadcopter, or a multi-degree of freedom robot arm? These standard robot morphologies have become widely commercialized and are often our go-to general purpose systems, benefiting from well-established and accessible tools for working with these robots. However, when a task falls outside of […]
Our workshop aims to facilitate discussion on construction robotics with an emphasis on perception and navigation in cluttered scenes, mapping of as-built environments, and safety-focused robot-worker interactions. This workshop will provide a venue for academics and industry practitioners to connect and create a vision for robotics in construction work and ensure equitable participation in planning […]
Robotic surgery is entering an exciting new era where robots are no longer simply mechanical tools under the direct control of a surgeon, but rather fully-fledged cyber-physical systems capable of collaborating with doctors to carry out complex procedures. Within this evolving landscape, unconventional surgical instruments such as lasers, radiofrequency, and ultrasound probes are taking an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent advances in training large-scale models on massive internet-scale data show great promise for developing foundation models that enable robots to perform sophisticated tasks in human-centered environments, such as transportation, households, healthcare, and warehouses. These models introduce new paradigms for human-robot interaction, allowing robots to follow complex human instructions, collaborate effectively, and understand and comply […]
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 […]
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 […]