Invited Speakers:

Hani Ben Amor

Georgia Tech

Ravi Balasubramanian

Oregon State University

Antonio Bicchi

University of Pisa

Timothy Wolfe Bretl

UIUC

Matei Ciocarlie

Columbia University

Ashish Deshpande

University of Texas at Austin

Erik D. Engeberg

Florida Atlantic University

Markus Grebenstein

DLR

Kazuhiro Kosuge

Tohuku University

Justus Piater

University of Innsbruck

Robert Platt

Northeastern University

Alberto Rodriguez

MIT

Panel: Performance Metrics and Benchmarks to Advance the State of Grasping

Panelists

  • Elena Messina, NIST (Moderator)

  • Jane Shi, General Motors

  • Aaron Dollar, Yale University.

  • Joe Falco, NIST

  • Jeff Trinkle, NSF

  • Aaron Blasdel, Fetch Robotics, formerly with Toyota Partner Robot Group

  • Just Herder, U. of Twente

Tentative Schedule

8:20 - 10:00 am    Hand design and control (Invited talks)
   8:20 - 8:36 am   Matei Ciocarlie
   8:36 - 8:52 am   Kazuhiro Kosuge
   8:52 - 9:08 am  Antonio Bicchi
   9:08 -9:24 am   Erik Engeberg
   9:24 - 9:40 am   Ashish Deshpande
   9:40 - 10:10 am   Discussion on future and trends of hand design and control
10:10 - 10:30 am   Break
10:30 - 11:30 am   Panel: Performance metrics and benchmarks to advance the state of grasping
11:30 - 1:00 pm   Lunch break
1:00-2:00 pm   poster teasers and demo videos (optional)
2:00-3:30 pm   Poster and demos
3:40 - 5:36 pm   Perception, Planning, and Execution (Invited talks)
   3:40 - 3:56 am   Ravi Balasubramanian
   3:56-4:12 pm   Justus Piater
   4:12 - 4:28 pm   Robert Platt
   4:28 - 4:44 pm   Alberto Rodriguez
   4:44 - 5:00 pm   Heni Ben Amor
   5:00 - 5:16 pm   Timothy Bretl
   5:16 - 5:46 pm   Discussion on future and trends of grasp planning

Important Days

Poster Abstract Submission:   March 9, 2015
Poster Acceptance Decision:   March 23, 2015
Demo Abstract/video Submission:   April 22, 2015
Demo Acceptance Decision:   April 30, 2015
Poster Teaser Submission:   May 16, 2015
Workshop:   May 30, 2015