- Computer Vision Course
Local: University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
Date: 2004-07-19
- Mobile Manipulators, 4th Int. UJI Robotics Summer School (IURS'2004)
Local: Benicàssim, Spain
Date: 2004-09-13
- Controle e Coordenação de Grandes Grupos de Robôs
Local: Anfiteatro do ISR
Date: 2008-05-07
Palestrante: Prof. Luiz Chaimowicz Horário: 14:00 - 15:00 Data: Quarta-Feira, 7 de abril de 2008 Sala: Anfiteatro do ISR
O estudo e utilização de "enxames" de robôs (swarms) tem recebido bastante atenção nos últimos anos. Um "enxame" consiste em um grande grupo de agentes robóticos simples, que individualmente não possuem muita capacidade de processamento mas em conjunto podem realizar diversos tipos de tarefas. Este seminário aborda algumas técnicas que permitem realizar o controle e a coordenação de grandes grupos de robôs de forma eficiente e escalável. Especificamente, serão apresentados algoritmos de coordenação e controle descentralizados que possibilitam que grupos de robôs, trabalhando de forma completamente assíncrona, possam seguir trajetórias que os levem para um mesmo objetivo em ambientes com obstáculos. Duas técnicas particularmente interessantes consistem na especificação de funções implícitas para guiar a trajetória de "enxames" em ambientes complexos e na utilização de hierarquias de robôs.
Short Bio: Luiz Chaimowicz é professor adjunto do Departamento de Ciência da Computação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) - Brasil, e Pesquisador Nível 2 do CNPq. Ele é doutor em Ciência da Computação pela UFMG (2002) e realizou um pós-doutorado em Robótica no GRASP Laboratory - Universidade da Pennsylvania, EUA (2003-2004). Ele faz parte do Laboratório de Visão e Robótica (VeRLab) e suas áreas de interesse incluem robótica móvel, coordenação de múltiplos robôs, enxames de robôs (swarms), plataformas para programação e simulação de robôs móveis e inteligência artificial aplicada a jogos.
- Matrices in Vision
Local: Anfiteatro do Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – Pólo II - Coimbra
Date: 2008-05-28
Matrices in Vision
William F. Harris, Department of Optometry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
28 de Maio 2008 | 15h | Anfiteatro do Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – Pólo II - Coimbra
Abstract: Starting with ray optics we linearize Snell’s equation to obtain linear optics. This leads to the concept of the ray transference (5x5 and smaller); the seminar will be largely in terms of this matrix. Elementary systems, compound systems. Symplecticity. Centred and non-centred systems. Stigmatic and astigmatic systems. The concept of astigmatism. Systems that rotate and/or reflect. Exit-plane focal, conjugate, afocal and entrance-plane focal systems. Converter systems. The optometrist’s job and optical compensation with spectacle and contact lenses. Blur, size, shape and orientation of the retinal image. The surgeon’s job, refractive surgery and the intra-ocular lens. Traditional representation of refractive error. The matrix representation. Quantitative analysis of refractive error in symmetric dioptric power space. The clinician’s refraction routine as a search in the space. Quantitative analysis of whole systems. The average eye. Hamiltonian space. The problem of the norm. The trail-case problem. Other applications. I’m assuming that people still remember a little of their high-school optics but no much more, and, in particular, that they are not expert in linear optics. I’m also assuming that that their linear algebra is good (better than mine) but that perhaps some need to be reminded what symplectic and Hamiltonian matrices are. I suspect that time will allow me to cover some of the topics only in outline.
- Actividades do Laboratório de Visão Computacional e Robótica (VeRLab) do DCC - UFMG - Brazil
Local: Anfiteatro do ISR
Date: 2008-05-05
Palestrante: Prof. Luiz Chaimowicz Horário: 14:00 - 15:00 Data: Segunda-Feira, 5 de Abril de 2008 Sala: Anfiteatro do ISR
O objetivo desse seminário é apresentar os trabalhos que vêm sendo desenvolvidos no Laboratório de Visão Computacional e Robótica do Departamento de Ciência da Computação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Fundado em 1992 e contando atualmente com 3 professores e mais de 20 alunos, o VeRLab é um dos pioneiros no Brasil na área de Visão Computacional e Robótica. Entre as principais linhas de pesquisa estão a robótica móvel (navegação, mapeamento), robótica cooperativa, veículos aéreos autônomos, interfaces hapticas, reconstrução 3D, visão subaquática e imagens médicas.
Short Bio: Luiz Chaimowicz é professor adjunto do Departamento de Ciência da Computação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) - Brasil, e Pesquisador Nível 2 do CNPq. Ele é doutor em Ciência da Computação pela UFMG (2002) e realizou um pós-doutorado em Robótica no GRASP Laboratory - Universidade da Pennsylvania, EUA (2003-2004). Ele faz parte do Laboratório de Visão e Robótica (VeRLab) e suas áreas de interesse incluem robótica móvel, coordenação de múltiplos robôs, enxames de robôs (swarms), plataformas para programação e simulação de robôs móveis e inteligência artificial aplicada a jogos.
- FCT-UC(ISR)/HUG - Live demo
Local: MRL - ISR
Date: 2009-03-09
- Conference - "Image Analysis - Research Projects at LIV/UNICAMP"
Local: Auditorium of ISR- Institute of Systems and Robotics
Date: 2010-01-13
Hélio Pedrini is currently an assistant professor in the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas, Brazil. He was formerly with the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, from July 2000 to March 2008. He was a visiting researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, USA, from September 2005 to August 2006. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2000. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1994, and his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1986. He has served as a member of technical committee and reviewer for several conferences and journals. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). His research interests include image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational geometry, geometric modeling, computer graphics, scientific visualization, geographic information systems.
- Controlo 2010
Local: Polo II - Coimbra
Date: 2010-09-08
It's our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control - CONTROLO' 2010, to be held in Coimbra, from 8 to 10 September 2010. This event is organized in cooperation with APCA and the School of Sciences and Engineering of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC). APCA is the Portuguese Association of Automatic Control, which is a national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The event is also organized in close cooperation with the Mechanical Engineering Research Center of the University of Coimbra (CEMUC), which activity in automation and robotics is well known.
- 13th International Conference on Information Fusion
Local: Edinburgh, UK
Date: 2010-07-26
Fusion 2010 is the 13th prestigious international conference on information Fusion, which will be held for the first time on UK soil in Scotland’s picturesque capital, Edinburgh. This annual conference aims to bring together professionals from around the world to facilitate discussion on the recent advances and pertinent issues in fusion technologies.
- Tutorial RA2010
Local:
Date: 2010-11-02
- IROS 2008
Local: Acropolis Convention Center, Nice, France
Date: 2008-09-22
IROS-2008 WORKSHOP ON Grasp and Task Learning by Imitation
- ICRA 2011 - Workshop on Autonomous Grasping
From Multi-Sensing to Symbolic Representation for Robotic Manipulation Tasks
Local: Shanghai International Convention Center, Shangai, China
Date: 2011-05-09
The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) will take place from May 9 to 13, 2011 at the Shanghai International Conference Center and the Shangri-La Hotel Shanghai Pudong in Shanghai, China.
In this workshop we shall cover representations underlying the human strategies that define the appropriate characteristics of the grasp and manipulation movements in specific contexts or objects and howthese strategies can be extended and replicated by robots.
The focus will be on techniques to extract relevant information from human data recording in scenarios of grasping and manipulation tasks, including data on tactile sensing, visual gaze and saccade movements of the subject.
As an outcome, we expect the speakers to contribute for a more complete overview on the current state-of-art on robotic systems that explore different strategies of grasping and manipulation, and explore physical properties of objects to provide more intelligent artificial hands. The models for multi-sensor data integration will be discussed as well as the representations and control strategies that provide autonomous manipulation.
- IROS 2010
Workshop On Grasp Planning and Task Learning by Imitation
Local: Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 2010-10-04
- Robótica e a complexidade em imitar o comportamento humano
Local: Museu da Ciência - Coimbra
Date: 2010-05-22
"E(I)mergência da Complexidade" is the topic for a meeting of researchers from various fields of science (medicine, economics, philosophy, physics and psychology, among others), taking place at Saturday, May 22 at the Museum of Science, University of Coimbra, between 10 and 18 hours. The initiative aims to discuss the role of complexity in the contemporary world. This symposium will use common terms and non-technical to talk about how complexity can be obtained from simpler elements, and how complexity can be understood differently at different scales. The concepts of complexity will be analyzed in several areas: Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics, Physics of Chaos, Robotics, Economics and Management. In the final round table we will see how these areas interrelate. The discussion involves issues such as what life is, what constitutes the richness, the boundaries of robotics and what the future of the university in Portugal and abroad.
- InerVis 2005 - 2nd Workshop on Integration of Vision and Inertial Sensors
Local:
Date: 2005-04-18
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on integrating these two and possible other sensors into one system. We encourage contributions including the following aspects: * Neurological studies of the human vision and inertial sensing, * Theoretical analysis of multi-rate signal integration, * Integration methods to fuse inertial, visual and other sensor modes, * Experimental results and evaluation of sensor integration techniques, and * Methods and metrics for performance evaluation.
- Workshop on Integration of Vision and Inertial Sensors 29 June 2003 ICAR'03 ISR, Coimbra University, Portugal
Local: Coimbra University
Date: 2003-06-29
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on integrating these two and possible other sensors into one system. We encourage contributions including the following aspects: * Neurological studies of the human vision and inertial sensing, * Theoretical analysis of multi-rate signal integration, * Integration methods to fuse inertial, visual and other sensor modes, * Experimental results and evaluation of sensor integration techniques, and * Methods and metrics for performance evaluation.
- InerVis 2008 - Tutorial on Integration of Vision and Inertial Sensors 28 June 2008 RSS 2008 2008 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference Zurich, Switzerland
Local: Zurich - Switzerland
Date: 2008-06-28
Inertial sensors coupled to cameras can provide valuable data about camera ego-motion and how world features are expected to be oriented. Object recognition and tracking benefits from both static and dynamic inertial information. In human vision several tasks rely on the inertial data provided by the vestibular system. Artificial systems should also exploit this sensing fusion. In this tutorial we first present some studies on visuo-vestibular interactions in humans, providing a biological motivation. The complementary information between inertial and visual sensing modalities for robotic applications will be presented and discussed. Starting from a biological perspective, some fundamental approaches for fusing this sensing data in robotic systems will be presented, together with a survey of the recent work in the field.
- 8th Portuguese Meeting on Reconfigurable Systems (REC 2012)
Local: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
Date: 2012-02-09
The Portuguese Meeting on Reconfigurable Systems gathers together every year the Portuguese research community with interests in electronic reconfigurable systems and applications. The meetings focus mainly on research issues associated with the design and development of FPGA-based systems for use, e.g., in information processing and process control applications. The 8th edition of the meeting will be hosted by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa on 9-10 February 2012. As in previous years, there will be a single presentation track with the aim of providing ample contact and discussion opportunities for all participants. The scientific program will include invited keynote speeches, together with the presentation of peer-reviewed papers. The organization of REC 2012 invites authors to submit long papers on completed research and short papers on work in progress. The best papers will be published in ISEL Academic Journal of Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers. Mário Véstias, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa Jorge Lobo, Universidade de Coimbra
- European Robotics Week
Local: Portugal
Date: 2011-11-28
The European Robotics Week offers one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting growing importance of robotics in a wide variety of application areas. The Week aims at inspiring technology education in students of all ages to pursue careers in STEM-related fields, i.e. science, technology, engineering and math.
The aim is to have several events dedicated to robotics throughout Europe within this week, such as open houses, lab tours, exhibitions, workshops / public talks / discussions, targeted educational reach-out-activities (at schools, universities, ….), challenges / competitions, media events (press conferences, filmings, photo shootings, …).
- IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Local: Vilamoura, Algarve Portugal
Date: 2012-10-07
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
October 7-11, 2012
Vilamoura, Algarve [Portugal]
Celebrating 25 Years of IROS
- Robotica 2012: 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Architectures for Mobile Robots;
- Sensors and Sensor Integration;
- Motion and Actuation Systems;
- Multi-Robot Systems;
- Human-Robot Interaction;
- Simulation and Visualization;
- Robotic Competitions;
- Planning, Reasoning and Modeling;
- Cooperative Navigation and Control;
- Cooperative Perception;
- Computer Vision and Image-Processing;
- Navigation and Control of Mobile Robots;
- Recognition, Localization, Tracking, SLAM;
- Robot Learning;
- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots;
- Computer and Robotic Entertainments.
Local: Guimarães, Portugal
Date: 2012-04-11
The 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (www.robotica2012.org/EC) is an international scientific meeting in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas, which will take place in conjunction with the 12th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event.
As in previous years, we expect the conference to get the Technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
The conference will be held in the beautiful city of Guimarães, Portugal, on April 11, 2012. Guimarães is the cradle of Portugal and it was classified by Unesco as Worldwide Heritage. In 2012 it will be European Capital of Culture.
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Important Dates:
- 23rd January, 2012 Submission of full-length papers
- 20th February, 2012 Notification of acceptance
- 5th March, 2012 Camera Ready Papers
- 12th March, 2012 Early Registration Deadline
- 11th April, 2012 Conference takes place
- SAC 2013 - 28th Symposium On Applied Computing
Local: Coimbra, Portugal
Date: 2013-03-18
For the past twenty-seven years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world.
Authors are invited to submit original work in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical program via the various tracks hosted by SAC 2013.
The conference is hosted by the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra (ISR-FCTUC), and Mathematical and Computer Sciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (ICMC-USP); and will be held at the Institute of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (ISEC-IPC).
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- Investigação do Grupo de Robótica e Sistemas Inteligentes do INESCPorto
Local: Anfiteatro do ISR Coimbra, piso 0 do DEEC
Date: 2012-01-11
Orador: Doutor Armando Sousa
Sinopse:
Nesta palestra, será feita uma apresentação dos projetos de investigação em curso no Grupo de Robótica e Sistemas Inteligentes do INESCPorto e serão detalhados alguns tópicos de interesse e resultados alcançados no âmbito da robótica de serviços e futebol robótico.
- ROBOCOMP 2011 - 2nd Int. Robotics Competition 2011
Local: Hammamet – Tunisia
Date: 2011-12-18
Doctor Jorge Dias was an Invited Speaker as IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecture at the 2nd Int. Robotics Competition 2011 - ROBOCOMP 2011, that took place in Laico Hotel, Hammamet – Tunisia, from 18-20 December 2011, with a plenary talk on “Multi-Sensing Artificial Perception A Probabilistic Approaches for Robotic Perception.
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- Conflict resolution in free-ranging multi-vehicle systems: A Resourse allocation paradigm
Local: Institute of Systems and Robotics – Auditorium
Date: 2010-09-22
Prof. Elzbieta Roszkowska, from University of Wroclaw - Poland, will provide a conference talk on "Conflict resolution in free-ranging multi-vehicle systems: A Resourse allocation paradigm", at Institute of Systems and Robotics – ISR Coimbra’s Auditorium on 22 th September 2010 at 14:30.
Based among other on the following previous publications:
- S. Reveliotis, E. Roszkowska, Conflict resolution in multi-
vehicle systems: A resourse allocation paradigma, IEEE, CASE 2008;
- S.Reveliotis, E.Roszkowska, On the complexity of maximally
permissive deadlock avoidance in multi-vehicle traffic systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2010
- E.Roszkowska, Decentralized motion-coordination policy for
cooperative mobile robots, IEEE, Wodes 2008
This conference talk is open to all participants, professors and students that are interested in the field of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics.
- Image Analysis - Research Projects at LIV/UNICAMP
Local: Auditorium of ISR- Institute of Systems and Robotics
Date: 2010-01-13
Hélio Pedrini is currently an assistant professor in the Institute of Computing at the
University of Campinas, Brazil. He was formerly with the Federal University of
Paraná, Brazil, from July 2000 to March 2008. He was a visiting researcher in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, USA, from
September 2005 to August 2006.
He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2000. He received his M.Sc. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1994, and his B.Sc.
degree in Computer Science from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1986.
He has served as a member of technical committee and reviewer for several
conferences and journals. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).
His research interests include image processing, computer vision, pattern
recognition, computational geometry, geometric modeling, computer graphics,
scientific visualization, geographic information systems.
- An Overview of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and its use in the new RobChair software architecture
Local: ISR Amphitheatre
Date: 2009-11-25
MRDS is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation and handles a wide variety of robot hardware.
It is based on CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime), a .NET-based concurrent library implementation, for managing asynchronous, parallel tasks using message-passing and DSS (Decentralized Software Services), a lightweight services-oriented runtime, which allows the orchestration of multiple services to achieve complex behaviors.
Features include: a visual programming tool for creating and debugging robot applications, web-based and windows-based interfaces, 3D simulation, easy access to a robot's sensors and actuators and support for a number of languages including C# and Visual Basic .NET, JScript, and IronPython.
One of the aims of this environment is becoming the standard robotics operating system, providing a common programming framework that can be applied to support a wide variety of robots, enabling code and skill transfer.
Some of Supported robots
Aldebaran Robotics Nao
CoroWare CoroBot
Lego Mindstorms NXT
iRobot Create
KUKA Robotics Educational Framework
Parallax Boe-Bot
Parallax Scribbler
Robosoft's robots
fischertechnik FT16
Kondo KHR-1
Segway RMP
WowWee RoboSapien
Some MRDS Partners:
Groupner
Hokuyo Automatic Co., Ltd
Lynxmotion, Inc.
SimplySim
VIA Technologies, Inc.
LG CNS Co, Ltd.
fischertechnik
ICOP Technology Inc.
RoboDynamics Corp.
This briefly presentation will introduce you to the MRDS and its main features.
You will also know how MRDS is being used in the new RobChair software architecture.
- Handling ROS Tutorial
Introductory tutorial to ROS and its use for robot in-hand manipulation. - Motion planning capabilities.
- Grasp planning and integration with GraspIt!
- Visual Perception System within HANDLE EU project using ROS.
- Managing coordinate frames with ROS.
- Control of the Shadow Dexterous Hand using ROS.
- Hand configuration perception with distributed sensors using ROS
- Grasp and Motion Planning with Underwater Intervention Vehicles running ROS: the experience of TRIDENT EU project.
- Adapting the manipulation stack to in-hand manipulation.
- Jorge Dias, University of Coimbra
- Jorge Lobo, University of Coimbra
- Véronique Perdereau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
- Matei Ciocarlie, Willow Garage
- Sachin Chitta, Willow Garage
- Silvia Rodríguez-Jiménez, University Carlos III of Madrid
- João Bimbo, King’s College London
- Toni Oliver, Shadow Robot Company
- Pedro Trindade, ISR - University of Coimbra
- Mario Prats, University Jaume I
- Guillaume Walck, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Local: Hotel Tivoli Marina Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
Date: 2012-10-07
Introductory tutorial to ROS and its use for robot in-hand manipulation.
Tutorial held at IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
List of Topics:
ROS Introduction and Case-Study demonstration.
List of Speakers
- SAC 2013 - Special Track on Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Local: Coimbra, Portugal
Date: 2013-03-18
The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been an important venue for the past twenty-seven years, attracting applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2013 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held at Coimbra, Portugal. For the first time, the ACM SAC will have a track focusing on cooperative multi-agent systems and their applications.
Cooperative multi-agent systems are groups of intelligent agents that can perceive and act in a given environment to achieve their individual and collective goals. Often, multi-agent systems (MAS) are used to solve problems that are beyond the individual capacities and knowledge of single agents. Such systems provide solutions in situations where expertise is spatially and temporally distributed, but typically do not suffer from resource limitations, performance bottlenecks or the critical failures associated with centralized problem solvers. Recently, due to the applicability of MAS to a wide spectrum of application domains, multi-robot systems and mixed human-robot teams have emerged as relevant instantiations of MAS, increasing their potential and solving challenging problems in the physical world.
The purpose of this technical track is to address methods for representing, specifying, designing, programming, deploying, and reasoning about cooperative MAS applied to real world problems, either in realistic simulations or field experiments. The agents in such systems may include virtual agents, mobile robots and/or humans. This technical track is a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and share experiences, theoretical knowledge and discuss application domains of MAS comprising either software agents or physically embodied agents.
Topics of Interest
| Coordination and cooperation | Distributed and decentralized control | |||||
| Multi-agent systems (MAS) | Multi-robot systems | |||||
| Mixed human-robotic teams | Real world applications of MAS | |||||
| Simulation techniques, tools and environments | Distributed constraint satisfaction | |||||
| MAS in mobile ad-hoc networks and sensor networks | Emergent behaviors, self-organization and learning | |||||
| Scalability | Robustness and fault-tolerance |
| SAC 2013 (CMASA) - Call For Papers |