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  • The Workshop will take place half day on Monday, October 14, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • Here is the link to the Teams room! Remote participation is free and open to all.
  • Contributed papers are available under the Papers section.
  • VOD and Recordings are available under the VODs section.

Program

Local Time (UTC+4) CET (Paris, UTC+2) EST (New York, UTC-4) Talk
14:00 - 14:00 12:00 - 12:00 06:00 - 06:00 Welcome and foreword
14:00 - 14:45 12:00 - 12:45 06:00 - 06:45 Session 1 - Grippers and tools design
Perla Maiolino (University of Oxford, UK) & Joao Bimbo (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
14:45 - 15:30 12:45 - 13:30 06:45 - 07:30 Session 2 - Data management
Federico Renda (Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE)& Ville Kyrki (Aalto University, Finland)
15:30 - 15:45 13:30 - 13:45 07:30 - 07:45 Papers teaser presentations
15:45 - 16:15 13:45 - 14:15 07:45 - 08:15 Coffee break & Posters presentation
16:15 - 17:00 14:15 - 15:00 08:15 - 09:00 Session 3 - Perception and control
David Held (Carnegie Mellon University,USA) & Xiang Li (Tsinghua University, China)
17:00 - 17:15 15:00 - 15:15 09:00 - 09:15 European projects presentation
Maria Eugenia Beltrán (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
17:15 - 17:45 15:15 - 15:45 09:15 - 09:45 Session 4 - Tutorials
Christian Duriez (Lille1 University, France)
17:45 - 18:00 15:45 - 16:00 09:45 - 10:00 General discussion - Round table with invited speakers

Contributed papers

Scope and Objectives

    Deformable objects are pervasive in applications across sectors including industry, agriculture, and healthcare. Having robots that could reliably manipulate such objects could yield significant benefits. However, the robotic handling of soft objects in dynamic and unstructured environments poses a challenging research area spanning perception, planning, control, machine learning, and human-robot interaction. Thus, we propose a workshop dedicated to deformable object manipulation given the vast potential for robotic systems and current unsolved research questions.

    Links to 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions of the workshop:

  • ROMADO
  • ROMADO-RA
  • ROMADO-SI

Targeted Topics

    Here are some examples of topics that could be targeted:
  • Grippers/tools design and grasping for manipulation of deformable objects
    • The link between soft robotics and manipulation of deformable objects
    • Grippers for deformable objects
    • Grasping for deformable objects
  • Data management of deformable objects
    • Benchmarking for deformable objects
    • Simulation/modeling and sim2real for deformable objects manipulation<
  • Machine learning for manipulation of deformable objects.
    • Perception and Multi-modal perception
    • Human-robot-Environment interaction
    • Manipulation planning for deformable objects
    • Leveraging foundation models.

Invited Speakers

  • Perla Maiolino, Associate Professor, Engineering Science Department, University of Oxford, UK
  • Joao Bimbo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Xiang Li, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China
  • Ville Kyrki, Professor at Aalto University, Finland
  • David Held, Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,USA
  • Federico Renda, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Maria Eugenia Beltrán, Project Manager – Head of Big Data, LifeSTtech - Life Supporting Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
  • Christian Duriez, Research Director at INRIA – Lille – Nord-Europe. Lille1 University.France.

Important Dates & submission

All dates are still subject to modifications by IROS organizers.

  • Sept. 20 Contributed papers submission
  • Sept. 30 Contributed papers acceptance
  • Oct 04 Video recordings submission
  • Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 06 pages max) written in English, and formatted using the IEEE templates.
  • Papers accepted by IROS2024 may also be submitted.
  • The papers should be submitted electronically in .PDF format to Mohammad.Awad[AT]ku[DOT]ac[DOT]ae, seita[AT]usc[DOT]edu, and Mohammad.Alkhatib[AT]sigma-clermont[DOT]fr , with the following subject: Submission workshop ROMADO.
  • Peer reviews will be used to pick the accepted papers, which will be judged on their originality, applicability, technical clarity, and presentation.
  • Accepted papers' authors have to submit a 5 mins video presenting their paper (presentation, video results).
  • On the workshop website, the accepted papers and videos will be made available (upon authors' agreement).

Organizers

  • Mohammad I. Awad, Research Scientist at The Department of Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE(main organizer)
  • Daniel Seita, Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, USA(main organizer)
  • Mohammad Alkhatib, Associate professor at CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France (main organizer)
  • Youcef Mezouar, Full professor at CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
  • Claire Dune, Associate professor at Laboratoire COSMER-EA 7398, Université de Toulon, France
  • Jihong Zhu, Assistant Professor, University of York, UK
  • Júlia Borràs, Researcher and Dep. Director at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Spain
  • Adrien Koessler, Associate professor at Université de Lorraine, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, LCFC, HESAM Université, France.
  • Tran Nguyen Le, Postdoctoral Researcher at Intelligent Robotics Group, Aalto University, Finland
  • David Blanco-Mulero, Ph.D. fellow at Institut de Robòtica I Informàtica Industrial (IRI-CSIC-UPC) in Spain, and Aalto University Intelligent Robotics Group in Finland

Contact

For all questions plase sollicitate the main organizer: Mohammad.Alkhatib[AT]sigma-clermont[DOT]fr