Full day workshop

Soft continuum manipulators

bottlenecks and applications

Date:

To be confirmed
Location:

Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall - Yokohama, Japan

PROGRAM

Tentative Schedule

08:55-09:05	WS Organizers	Welcome
09:05-09:20	Lucia Beccai	Lessons from the elephant trunk for perceptive and versatile manipulators
09:20-09:35	Jianin Wu	Bio-inspired Continuum Manipulators based on Tensegrity Structure
09:35-09:50	Jessica Burghner-Kahrs (REMOTE)	The Open Continuum Robotics Project
09:50-10:05	Xin Dong	New advances of continuum and soft robotics for industrial applications
10:05-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:45	Egidio Falotico
10:45-11:00	Ian Walker (REMOTE)	Continuum robots: people and plants
11:00-11:15	Matteo Cianchetti	Variable stiffness to bring soft manipulators into biomedical applications
11:15-11:30	Christian Duriez (REMOTE)	Simulation and model-based control of continuum manipulators
11:30-11:45	Jonathan Rogers	NASA Robotic inspection and manipulation capabilities enabled by continuum robots
11:45-12:00	Andy Norton	On the development of robotic systems for keyhole surgery of gas turbines
12:00-12:15	Christos Bergeles	Miniaturised everting robots for intraluminal interventions
12:15-12:45	PANEL DISCUSSION with Invited Speakers and all audience	Moderated by Lucia Beccai, Ian Walker
12:45-13:45	Lunch and POSTER SESSION
13:45-14:00	Kyu-Jin Cho
14:00-14:15	Josie Hughes	Materials, structures and sensors for soft continuum manipulators
14:15-14:30	Marc Killpack	Planning and control with soft continuum robots: case studies of human-robot and bi-manual manipulation of unknown objects
14:30-14:45	Rongjie Kang	Dynamic capture using multiple continuum arms
14:45-15:00	Elliot Hawkes	Simple control modalities for soft continuum robots
15:00-15:15	Cecilia Laschi	Soft continuum manipulators for assistive applications
15:15-15:30	Hugo Rodrigue	Unbuckling inflatable tubes for soft robotic applications
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:15	Shahram Eivazi (REMOTE)	FESTO Bionic arm
16:15-17:00	PANEL DISCUSSION with Invited Speakers and all audience. POSTER PRIZE	Moderated by Egidio Falotico, Kyu-Jin Cho