Call for Posters and Demo Videos
The poster and demo session at this workshop will give the opportunity to researchers to discuss and show their
latest results and ongoing research activities with the community. During flash talk and demo presentations,
presenters will have the opportunity to introduce their work or show their submitted videos to all workshop attendees.
To participate, please submit by August 15, 2018, an extended abstract of 1-3 pages (in PDF format, IEEE regular paper format)
or a 1-2 min video via email to: yusun@mail.usf.edu
All contributions will undergo a review by the organizers, and the authors will be notified of acceptance by August 22, 2018.
Call for Special Issue Paper
[Proposal for Special Issue on Experimental Robotic Grasping and Manipulation]
The special issue will focus on promoting comparable researches in robotic grasping and manipulation. Recently, there is a worldwide trend on designing benchmarks for performance evaluation, establishing community consensus for tasks and rules in competitions, collecting and organizing grasping and manipulation datasets for learning, evaluations, and comparisons. In the last several years, a number of groups in the robotics society have produced high-quality grasping evaluation objects (such as YCB object set), benchmarking metrics (such as the NIST grasping and manipulation performance metrics and benchmarks), daily-living manipulation evaluation tasks (such as the IROS RGMC tasks), manufacturing evaluation tasks (such as the IROS RGMC tasks and WRC tasks), and grasping and manipulation datasets (such as the MIT pushing dataset, IIT robotic hand dataset, USF manipulation dataset, Upenn tactile dataset and Harvard tactile dataset). These are great assets and very valuable for the progression of research in robotic grasping and manipulation. For more please read this.
Important Days
Workshop date: October 5, 2018
Demo video submission deadline: August 15, 2018
Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2018
Acceptance notification: August 22, 2018
Special Issue Paper Submission: October 30, 2018
Objectives
The workshop will focus on promoting comparable researches in robotic grasping and manipulation. Recently, there is a worldwide trend on designing benchmarks for performance evaluation, establishing community consensus for tasks and rules in competitions, collecting and organizing grasping and manipulation datasets for learning, evaluations, and comparisons. In the last several years, a number of groups in the robotics society have produced high-quality grasping evaluation objects (such as YCB object set), benchmarking metrics (such as the NIST grasping and manipulation performance metrics and benchmarks), daily-living manipulation evaluation tasks (such as the IROS RGMC tasks), manufacturing evaluation tasks (such as the IROS RGMC tasks and WRC tasks), and grasping and manipulation datasets (such as the MIT pushing dataset, IIT robotic hand dataset, USF manipulation dataset, Upenn tactile dataset and Harvard tactile dataset). These are great assets and very valuable for the progression of research in robotic grasping and manipulation. The objectives of the workshop are to bring together researchers from different domains for their common interests in experimental robotic grasping and manipulation, to consolidate their efforts, achievements, and resources, to address the need in promoting comparable research, and to produce fair, easily-implementable, and widely-acceptable benchmarks and evaluation tasks.
Topics of interest
Invited Speakers
Tentative Title: From human hands to soft artificial hands for robots and humans: datasets and lessons learned from competitions
Tentative Title: From Benchmarking to Tidying Up Rooms: How we can compare robotic manipulation skills
Tentative Title: A Dataset of Daily Interactive Manipulation
Program
Location: Room 2.L2
Poster area size: 1.87m x 0.95m
Schedule Details:
| Time | Talk | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 9:10 – 9:15 | Welcome and Introduction | Yu Sun University of South Florida |
| Competitions | ||
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Invited Talks | Vincent Wall TU Berlin 2015 APC winner |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Invited Talks | Juxi Leitner Queensland University of Technology, Australia 2017 APC winner |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Invited Talks | Albert Causo and I-Ming Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2017 APC Picking Task Winner |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Invited Talks | Josie Hughes University of Cambridge, UK 2017 Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition Winner |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Invited Talks | Carlos Hernandez Corbato Delft University of Technology 2016 APC winner |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Datasets | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Invited Talks | Yu Sun University of South Florida, USA |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Invited Talks | Siddhartha Srinivasa University of Washington, USA |
12:30 - 12:45 | Invited Talks | Alberto Rodriguez MIT, USA |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Invited Talks | Matteo Bianchi UNIPI, Italy |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Discussion | Competition and Datasets |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Benchmarks | ||
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Invited Talks | Aaron Dollar Yale University, USA |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Invited Talks | Juxi Leitner Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
15:00 - 15:15 | Announcement | Yasuyoshi Yokokohji WRS announcement Kobe University, Japan |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Poster teasers | NIST video A High-Fidelity Dataset of Planar Pushing with RGBD Data and an Extensive Set of Pushed Objects Maria Bauza, Alberto Rodriguez Instrumented Door and Drawer for Comprehensive Robot–Object Kinematic and Force Data Kristan Hilby, John Morrow, Yi Herng Ong, Ravi Balasubramanian, Cindy Grimm An Experimental Validation of Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization for Pushing Manipulation Aykut Ozgun Onol, Tarık Kelestemur, Philip Long, and Taskın Padır Mating Process tolerance of plug-in cable connectors for wiring harness assembly tasks Francisco Yumbla, June-Sup Yi, Meseret Abayebas, Hyungpil Moon Benchmarking Prehensile Pick-and-Place Manipulation Among Impactful Clutter Andrew Kimmel, Rahul Shome, Kostas Bekris System-level evaluation of a Robotic System for a Pick-and-Place Task Panagiotis Sotiropoulos, Pavlos Triantafylou, Hussein Mnyusiwalla, Maximo A. Roa, Duncan Russell, Graham Deacon Towards an imitation learning benchmark Raphael Memmesheimer, Ivanna Mykhalchyshyna, and Dietrich Paulus |
| 15:40 - 16:30 | Panel Discussion | All speakers |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Poster Presentations |
Organizer
Yu Sun, University of South Florida, USA, yusun@mail.usf.edu
Hyungpil Moon, SungKyunKwan University, South Korea, hyungpil@me.skku.ac.kr
Joe Falco, NIST, USA, falco@nist.gov
Berk Calli, Yale University, USA, berk.calli@yale.edu