13-15 December 2020: 9th International Precision Assembly Seminar in Kitzbühel, Austria

In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2020, 03-05 March 2020, Malaga, Spain

Aim and Scope

Collaborative robots in industry are mostly underused, since they are mainly regarded as tools that relieve workers of physical fatigue and enhance their capabilities, but enjoy very limited autonomy and intelligence.

There is an immediate need for endowing robots with intelligent processing skills and shared autonomy capabilities, so that they can take over some tasks, thus relieving human operators of mental and physical effort, especially in complex tasks and scenarios.

There are various challenges to efficiently integrate HRC system to the industrial workplaces, among which include intuitive and ease of interaction, safety and intelligent interaction.

The following topics will be discussed:

• What are the current challenges and experiences when integrating HRC to industrial workplaces
• How can user easily interact with the robot
• What AI technologies can be exploited to endow intelligence to HRC systems for faster integration

To facilitate different perspectives, two speakers (one from industry and one from academia) each for one topic, will shortly discuss and present their findings. This is followed by a group discussion, where the two speakers responsible for the topic will actively moderate the discussion. A panel discussion at the end will present the relevant conclusions and ex-tempore discussion.

This workshop is adapted continuation of a successful past ERF workshops (ERF2018 – Beyond Smart Robots and ERF2019 – Collaborative robots for industrial and professional service tasks), bringing together end users, academics, industry and policy makers. The workshop aims to present lessons learned from various EU and industry projects, the real deployment of robots in different industrial applications as well as needs and potential uses identified by the end users.

Workshop Agenda (4 March 2020)

08:30 – 08:35 Opening comments by the organizers:

• Prof. Markus Vincze, TU Vienna
• Fotis Dimeas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

08:35 – 09:05 Impulse talks by our invited speakers:

• Sylvain Calinon, IDIAP
• Turgut Köksal Yalcin, Arcelik A.S.
• George Michalos, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation
• Christoph Walter, Fraunhofer IFF Magdeburg
• Carlos Celemins Paez, Delft University of Technology
• Sotiris Manitsaris, Mines Paristech
• Jure Skrabar, Kolektor

09:05 – 09:35 Group Discussion

09:35 – 09:55 Panel Discussion

09:55 – 10:00 Wrap-up of findings by the organizers:

• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor
• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics

Organizers

The “Human-Robot Collaboration & AI for industrial applications” workshop is jointly organized by PROFACTOR, TU Vienna and the CoLLaboratE Project

    

The final programme is online now:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday; 09.05.2019

08:30  – Registration

09:00  Welcome: Andreas Pichler, PROFACTOR

Invited Speakers

09:15  Jiří Matas, Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague

• Visual Tracking of Fast Moving Objects

10:00  Manfred Tscheligi, Austrian Institute of Technology & University of Salzburg

• Automation Experience: An Experience Centered View into Automated Contexts

10:45 – 17:00 Austrian Robotics Workshop and OAGM Workshop

17:00 General Assembly OAGM and GMAR

19:00 Dinner at Restaurant Orangerie

Poster session:

Additional information about poster sessions: The organizer will provide pinboards for A0-posters. There are no special templates for the posters and presenters do not have to submit slides for the presentation.

 

Thursday May 09, 2019 12:20-13:20:

Christian Hartl-Nesic and Martin Meiringer.

• Computational Performance of the Forward and Inverse Kinematics of an Anthropomorphic Robot Arm

Thomas Pönitz, Christoph Heindl and Martin Kampel.

• Automatic Intrinsics and Extrinsics Projector Calibration withEmbedded Light Sensors

Kenji Koide and Emanuele Menegatti.

• General Robot-Camera Synchronization Based on Reprojection Error Minimization

Dominik Hofer, Simon Brunauer and Hannes Waclawek.

• Multilingual Speech Control for ROS-driven Robots

Verena Horak and Kristian Bredies.

• A Two-Stage Classifier for Collagen in Electron Tomography Images using a Convolutional Neural Network and TV Segmentation

Maliheh Assadpour Tehrani and Robert Sablatnig.

• The Coarse-to-Fine Contour-based Multimodal Image Registration

 

Thursday May 09, 2019 14:40-15:40:

Simon Emsenhuber, Philipp Klammer, Christoph Pöschko, Florian Voglsinger, Georg Novotny and Wilfried Kubinger.

• Robbie – A tele-operated robot with autonomous capabilities for EnRicH-2019 robotics trial

Bernhard Neuberger, Geraldo Silveira, Marko Postolov and Markus Vincze.

• Object Grasping in Non-metric Space Using Decoupled Direct Visual Servoing

Trung Quoc Nguyen, Peter Nauth and Sudeep Sharan.

• Control of Autonomous Mobile Robot using Voice Command

Clemens Koza and Wilfried Lepuschitz.

• A case study on working with a commercial mobile robotics platform

Andreas Wittmann, Margrit Gelautz and Florian Seitner.

• Evaluation Study on Semantic Object Labelling in Street Scenes

Muntaha Sakeena and Matthias Zeppelzauer.

• Combining Deep Learning and Variational Level Sets for Segmentation of Buildings

Friday; 10.05.2019

09:00  Welcome

Invited Speakers

09:15   Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology

• Computer Vision for Complex Activities

10:00 Alin Albu-Schäffer, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

• Humanoid Assistance Robots: Designing and Controlling
  Robots for Direct Interaction with Humans

10:45 – 15:00 Austrian Robotics Workshop and OAGM Workshop

 

Poster session:

Additional information about poster sessions: The organizer will provide pinboards for A0-posters. There are no special templates for the posters and presenters do not have to submit slides for the presentation.

Friday May 10, 2019 12:15-13:15:

Lucas Paletta, Martin Pszeida and Ferdinand Fuhrmann.

• Evaluation of Human-Robot Collaboration Using Gaze based Situation Awareness in Real-time

Axel Brunnbauer and Markus Bader.

• Traffic cone based self-localization on a 1:10 race car

Fabian Garber and Nima Taherinejad.

• TUK a Social Companion Robot

Armin Pointinger and Gerald Zauner.

• Semantic Image Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Nets for Lawn Mower Robots

Stefan Thalhammer, Timothy Patten and Markus Vincze.

• Towards Object Detection and Pose Estimation in Clutter using only Synthetic Depth Data for Training

Michael Schwegel and Jakob Maderthaner.

• Kinematics of steering a car

Thursday; 09.05.2019

TIPP: Praxisforum – Roboter als leistbare Helfer für Handwerk und Industrie

On 9 May from 1 p.m. there will also be the opportunity to visit the Praxisforum – Roboter als leistbare Helfer für Handwerk und Industrie. More information under: https://www.tim.at/veranstaltungen/E59D32CA-563B-E911-80CB-0050569207DF/ 

Would you like to participate in both events? Please contact Verena Musikar for your special ticket.