RoboTac 2022 The 4th IEEE/RSJ International Workshop@IROS 2022 RoboTac 2022: Visuo-Tactile Predictive Coding and Active Inference for Grasp and Manipulation New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Interactive Perception, and Learning October 23, 2022, Kyoto, Japan Workshop URL: RoboTac2022 | RoboTac (robotact.de)<https://www.robotact.de/robotac-2022>
Call for Paper and Contributions Important Dates: *********************************************************************** * Paper Submission Deadline: September 22, 2022 * Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2022 * Camera-Ready Deadline: October 23 , 2022 *********************************************************************** Paper Submission guidelines We welcome submissions regarding any robotics application where tactile sensing modalities are used. As we aim to encourage meaningful discussion in the tactile perception and learning domain, work that is unpublished, recently published or under review can be accepted for presentation depending on the novelty, significance and contributions of the work to the workshop theme. For further information please visit RoboTac2022 | RoboTac (robotact.de)<https://www.robotact.de/robotac-2022> **** Award: The outstanding papers and demos will receive awards from the BMW Group and other sponsors. Topics of Interest: Human Sense of Touch * Touch physiology from skin to brain * Haptic Perception * Action and Perception Loop * Perception for Learning Tactile Sensing Technologies and Materials * Conformable and compliant materials * Features enabled by conformable sensors * Biomimetics * Sensor effects * Integration and read-out strategies * Self-healing properties and strategies * Sensor skins: design, fabrication and integration strategies * Integration strategies for sensors in robotics * Enabling technologies for fully integrated robotic systems Visio-Tactile Exploration, Interaction, & Learning * Exploitation of contact constraints * Novel contact models * Object perception for the exploitation of contact * Tactile information processing * Tactile feature extraction / feature learning * Tactile-based object modeling * Tactile object localization * Tactile shape reconstruction and recognition * Tactile object classification * Tactile exploration * Trends in combining of vision and touch sensing * Roles of vision and touch sensing in different object perception tasks * Modeling and representation of sensing modalities * Integration of visio-tactile sensing modalities Tactile Grasp, Manipulation, & HRI (Soft and conventional Robotic Systems) * Linear/rotational slip detection * Grasping planning * Grasp stability assessment * In-hand/whole body manipulation * Tactile planning interplay between touch sensing and vision * Tactile knowledge/skill transfer * Tactile transfer learning * Soft manipulation * The meaning and function of different sensing modalities in object manipulation * Sensing and planning in object manipulation * Multi-robot manipulation and coordination * Control strategy for object manipulation and collaborative assembly * Learning object manipulation skills from human demonstration * Novel approaches to grasp and manipulation planning * Whole-body, multi-contact planning and control * Design and characterization of contact-exploiting, compliant hands Confirmed Speakers Tactile Sensing Technologies * Prof. Takao Someya<http://www.ntech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/profile/> , The University of Tokyo, Japan Human Sense of Touch * Prof. Vincent Hayward<http://www.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?op=view_profil&id=19&old=N&lang=en%20%20%20>, Sorbonne Université / Actronika SAS, France * Prof. Etienne Burdet<https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.burdet>, Imperial College London, UK Predictive visuo–tactile coding and active inference * Prof. Thrishantha Nanayakkara<https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.nanayakkara>, Imperial College London, UK * Prof. Jun Tani<https://groups.oist.jp/cnru/jun-tani>, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan * Prof. Henrik Jörntell<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XtGRqeAAAAAJ&hl=en>, Lund University, Sweden Visuo-tactile grasp, prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation * Prof. Oliver Brock,<https://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de/menue/team/oliver_brock/> TU Berlin, Germany * Prof. Alberto Rodriguez Garcia<http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/alber...@mit.edu>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US * Prof. Perla Maiolino<https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/perla-maiolino/>, Oxford Robotics Institute, UK * Prof. Jeannette Bohg<https://web.stanford.edu/~bohg/>, Stanford University, US * Prof. Harold Soh<https://haroldsoh.github.io/>, National University of Singapore * Prof. Ville Kyrki<https://people.aalto.fi/ville.kyrki>, Aalto University, Finland * Prof. Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee<https://robotics.cornell.edu/faculty/tapomayukh-bhattacharjee-bio/>, Cornell University, US Organizers * Dr.-Ing. Mohsen Kaboli, Asst. Professor, director of RoboTac Lab, BMW research, Radboud University, Germany * Dr. Vincent Hayward, Professor, the Institute for Intelligent Robotic, Sorbonne University, France * Dr. Etienne Burdet, Professor, director of Human Robotic Lab, Imperial College London, UK * Dr. Henrik Jörntell, Professor of Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Control, Department of Experimental Medical Science ,Lund University , Sweden * Anirvan Dutta, Ph.D. Candidate BMW research, Germany, Imperial College, UK Regards Mohsen --------- Dr.-Ing. Mohsen Kaboli Asst. Professor of AI Robotics & Tactile Intelligence Director of RoboTac Lab BMW research, AI and Robotic Center of Excellence, Germany Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands Mohsen Kaboli | RoboTac (robotact.de)<https://www.robotact.de/mohsen-kaboli> Dr Kaboli, M. (Mohsen) | Radboud University (ru.nl)<https://www.ru.nl/en/people/kaboli-m>
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