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Full day workshop

Soft continuum manipulators

bottlenecks and applications

  • Date:
    May 13th, 2024
  • Location:
    Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall - Yokohama, Japan
  • Room:
    North building, room G304 at the third floor

PROGRAM

Schedule in Japan Standard Time (JST)

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
Xin Dong (REMOTE)
New advances of continuum and soft robotics for industrial applications
09:35-09:50
Reinhard Grassmann
The Open Continuum Robotics Project
09:50-10:05
Elliot Hawkes (REMOTE)
Simple control modalities for soft continuum robots
10:05-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-10:45
Kyu-Jin Cho
Deployable Soft manipulator with origami inspired design
10:45-11:00
Jianin Wu
Bio-inspired Continuum Manipulators based on Tensegrity Structure
11:00-11:15
Josie Hughes
Materials, structures and sensors for soft continuum manipulators
11:15-11:30
Jonathan Rogers
NASA Robotic inspection and manipulation capabilities enabled by continuum robots
11:30-11:45
Matteo Cianchetti
Variable stiffness to bring soft manipulators into biomedical applications
11:45-12:00
Christos Bergeles
Miniaturised everting robots for intraluminal interventions
12:00-12:30
PANEL DISCUSSION with Invited Speakers and all audience
Moderated by Lucia Beccai, Kiu-Jin Cho
12:30-13:45
Lunch and POSTER SESSION
13:45-14:00
Egidio Falotico
Fast dynamics in soft continuum manipulator
14:00-14:15
Christian Duriez (REMOTE)
Simulation and model-based control of 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
Hugo Rodrigue
Unbuckling inflatable tubes for soft robotic applications
15:00-15:15
Cecilia Laschi
Soft continuum manipulators for assistive applications
15:15-15:30
Ian Walker (REMOTE)
Continuum robots: people and plants
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:15
Andy Norton (REMOTE)
On the development of robotic systems for keyhole surgery of gas turbines
16:15-16:30
Shahram Eivazi (REMOTE)
FESTO Bionic arm
16:30-17:00
PANEL DISCUSSION with Invited Speakers and all audience. POSTER PRIZE
Moderated by Egidio Falotico, Ian Walker