Control 2023 – 09. – 12. May – Stuttgart

Workshop 1

Title: Human Robot Collaboration and AI in challenging Industrial applications. The workshop is scheduled (https://erf2023.sdu.dk/erf-2023-program/) for 14th March 2023 at 09:00 am (the title should be updated with the new one).

The updated workshop description is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_khNslsc89Sw3ueWYrc9_XiNVQkyBOE9naK_-eEb9L4/edit#

Speaker:

• NACIM RAMDANI, University of Orleans (Academia) (Horizon project:
  RESPECT) – “Resilience task scheduling in HRC hybrid fleet
  management”
• SHARATH CHANDRA AKKALADEVI, Profactor GmbH, Austria (RTO),
  (Horizon Project: FELICE Flexible Assembly Manufacturing With HumanRobot Collaboration And Digital Twin Models)
• FRANCESCO/FRANCISCO BLANES, UPV, Spain (Academia) (Horizon
  project: AI-PRISM – AI Powered human-centred Robot Interactions for
  Smart Manufacturing)
• PAUL CHIPPENDALE, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (Research)
  (Horizon projects: FEROX, AGILE-HAND) – “Collaborative robots: An
  extra pair of hands, and eyes”
• BAPTISTE GRADOUSSOFF, CEA, France (Horizon project MERGING –
  Manipulation Enhancement through Robotic Guidance and Intelligent
  Novel Gripper)
• MARKUS IKEDA, Profactor GmbH, Austria (Zer0P – Zero Defect
  Manufacturing für die nachhaltige Produktion / Zero Defect
  Manufacturing for Sustainable Manufacturing)

Additional information about the projects is here:

• FELICE https://www.felice-project.eu/
• AI PRISM https://aiprism.eu/
• AGILE HAND https://agilehand.eu/consortium/
• FEROX https://ferox.fbk.eu/
• RESPECT https://www.project-respect.eu/
• MERGING https://www.merging-project.eu/
• ZER0P : No website

 

Workshop 2

Title: Robotics and AI for Sustainable Recycling and Remanufacturing. The workshop is scheduled (https://erf2023.sdu.dk/erf-2023-program/) for 14th March 2023 at 13:55

The updated workshop description is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N2pA9F96puM6MVbfCoXvwwoUOC6WUC2iLLTcYWADyGQ/edit#

 

In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2022, 28^th – 30^th June 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The workshop is held on the 29^th of June at 09:50 CET during the ERF 2022, see ERF 2022 Programme for more details

This workshop is conducted within the Sustainability TG and the Socially Intelligent Robots and Societal Applications TG of EURobotics

 

AIM and Scope

With the quest to explore the unexplored, this workshop is a collaborative effort by two TGs: 1. Socially Intelligent Robots & Societal Applications, 2. Sustainability & Environmental Aspects. We aim to establish an important connection of the duality of Social Robots’ Applications and Sustainability. The beauty lies in the objective to investigate the two sides of the coin and their interdependency: Sustainable Societal Applications AND Societal Applications for Sustainability. Social robots still face barriers for long-term real-world sustainable deployment. On the other hand, advancements in Robotics & AI can be part of innovative solutions to various societal needs, e.g. sustainability in personalized healthcare, education, equality, development. The workshop aims to provide a platform to brainstorm, produce a roadmap and create awareness of this duality through stakeholders engagement.

The main ambition of the workshop is to identify and create interest groups, and foster discussion to collect valuable insights and feedback, and also provide opportunities for creating awareness about various efforts, towards the objective identified in the motivation section. Therefore, the agenda is designed to balance the time division necessary to accommodate talks from various stakeholders, create the ground for discussion, open the floor for brainstorming and to collect feedback for roadmapping through audience engagement.

To set the ground, selected experts and panelists (from industry, academics, end users, policy makers) will be invited for short presentations to provide insiders perspectives and position statements. The questions will be provided to the panelists and speakers in advance according to the group and theme they will be involved in. This will avoid having general talks from the speakers, but to the points and focused presentations. Also to better capture the requirements, barriers, potentials and policies at EU level, the invited experts are from different regions.?

 

Agenda:

9:50 – 10:05 AM

• Introduction Talk on objectives, themes of Duality of  Social Robots and Sustainability (15 minutes)(Amit Kumar Pandey, BeingAI limited, Socients AI and Robotics, France)(Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics, Denmark)

 

10:05- 10:15 AM

• Prof. Praminda Caleb-Solly, Professor of Embodied Intelligence, University of Nottingham, School of Computer Science, UK 

 

10:15 – 10:30 AM

• Brainstorming on identification of the key topics on the duality of Social Robots and Sustainability (moderated by Oraganizers through active participation of speakers and audience)

 

10:30 – 11:00 AM

• Coffee Break

 

11:00 – 11:10 AM

• Francesco Ferro, CEO, PAL Robotics, Spain

 

11:10 – 11:20 AM

• Prof. Filippo Cavallo, Associate Professor in Biomedical Robotics, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, Italy

(From interaction capabilities to diagnosis and rehabilitation with social robots in neurocognitive diseases)

 

11:20 – 11:35 AM

• Panel discussion and brainstorm on challenges and priorities: what should be contribution of social robots for sustainability and how the sustainability goals can be defined from social robotics perspective. (Panellist: speakers and audience active participation)

 

11:35 – 11:40 AM

• Concluding remarks, with pointers for next steps and white paper creation (5 minutes)

 

 Organizers of the workshop:

• Amit Kumar Pandey, Socients AI and Robotics, France,  amit.k.pandey@nullsocients.ai,

• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics (linkedin.com/in/fkirstein)

• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH (https://at.linkedin.com/in/sharathakkaladevi)

 

The workshop is co-organized with in the FELICE project and the Collaborate project.

More information:  https://erf2022.eu/programme/

 

 

In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2022, 28^th – 30^th June 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The workshop is held on the 30^th of June at 08:30 CET during the ERF 2022, see ERF 2022 Programme for more details

This workshop is conducted within the Sustainability Topic Group and the Analytical Laboratory Robotics Topic Group of EURobotics

 

AIM and Scope

The use of robotics is increasing around the world and soon every household might have at least one robot in use. Robots can support sustainability across all sectors e.g., fighting climate change, helping to recycle, decreasing waste in manufacturing, reducing the use of chemicals in farming, etc. However, the manufacturing of robots themselves can outbalance the positive impact of robotics if not addressed by the robotics community. This workshop focuses on how robots can be manufactured in a more sustainable way around the aspects of energy, materials, lab and recycling/ circular product design. We expect the audience of the workshop to come from industry (especially robot manufacturers) as well as academia (both from robotics, manufacturing or sustainable production).

The workshop aims to discuss the following topics:

1. Results from workshop “Sustainability and Industrial Robots”, where the audience will be asked about their attitudes towards the SDGs, how they contribute to the SDGs and the challenges they have met or anticipate on their journey towards a more sustainable way of working.
2. Knowledge exchange around attempts for a more sustainable manufacturing of robots: What attempts have been made to manufacture robots in a more sustainable way: where and how to start? What are the experiences and outcomes of this? What are the low-hanging fruits in this journey and where are the real challenges?
3. Inspirational exchange on new innovations to push for more sustainable manufacturing of robots: What are sustainable materials? How can robots be designed in a more sustainable way to facilitate better recycling or a circular design? How can a Life Cycle Assessment help to reduce e.g. CO2 footprint? How should the production set-up look like to e.g. use the right energy at the right time? How can labs contribute to increasing the standard of sustainability in robotics manufacturing and educating robotics companies in their sustainability practices?

 

Expected Outcome:

• Trigger information exchange between academia and industry about the current challenges and possible solutions for sustainable manufacturing of robots
• A position paper on the results of the workshop and share it, e.g., with the respective topic group/s. This will also form as a basis for the newly formed TG Group “Robotics for Sustainability and Environmental Aspects”

 

Invited Speakers:

• Fiachra O’Brolcháin, Dublin City University
• Patrick Courtney, tec-connection
• Radhika Gudipati, Ocado Technology
• Leendert Huis, Lely
• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics

 

Organizers of the workshop:

• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics (linkedin.com/in/fkirstein)
• Patrick Courtney, tec-connection
• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH (at.linkedin.com/in/sharathakkaladevi)
• Radhika Gudipati, Ocado Technology

The workshop is co-organized with in the FELICE project and the Collaborate project.

More information:  erf2022.eu/programme/

 

Slides

Download the Slides here.

 

 

 

In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2022, 28^th – 30^th June 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The workshop is held on the 28^th of June at 14:20 CET during the ERF 2022, see ERF 2022 Programme for more details

This workshop is conducted within the Sustainability Topic Group of EURobotics

 

AIM and Scope

Are robotics really able to solve the challenges related to sustainability? Are robots the solution or a problem on their own to sustainability? Come join us in our workshop as we gather experts from academia and industry to discuss the aspects of robotics and their role in sustainability and environmental aspects. The focus of the workshop is on the application of robotics to sustainability and as first steps, define sustainable and environmental aspects in different sectors (manufacturing, agriculture, marine, energy, …) and clarify the role of robotic applications in solving them. This is followed by some ongoing applications and case studies where robotic applications have successfully progressed in creating a difference.

The workshop tackles the following

1. Which challenges can be solved (in principle) by robots when sustainability is concerned. Is robotics a solution or a problem?
2. Different application areas where Robotics help sustainability – HRC for sustainability
3. Present TG on Robotics for sustainability, draft road map, next steps.

 

Expected Outcome:

• Trigger information exchange between academia and industry about the current challenges and possible solutions for sustainable production with application of robots
• A position paper on the results of the workshop and share it, e.g., with the respective topic group/s. This will also form as a basis for the newly formed TG Group “Robotics for Sustainability and Environmental Aspects”

 

Invited Speakers:

• Damien Salle, Tecnalia
• George Michalos, LMS, Greece
• Prof. Stjepan Bogdan, Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems,  Faculty of EE&C, University of Zagreb
• Christian Eitzinger, Profactor GmbH
• Javier Sanchez Cubillo, ZeniaLabs Automation Intelligence S.L.,

 

Organizers of the workshop:

• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH (at.linkedin.com/in/sharathakkaladevi)
• Dr. Maria Pateraki, National Technical University of Athens, Institute of Computer Science – FORTH (www.mpateraki.org)
• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics (linkedin.com/in/fkirstein)
• Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Markus Vincze (www.acin.tuwien.ac.at/institut/mvincze/)

The workshop is co-organized with in the FELICE project and the Collaborate project.

More information:  erf2022.eu/programme/

 

Slides:

combined_RoboticApplicationsforSustainability_WS_Slides.pdf