IEEE/RSJ IROS 2012 ¿ workshops & tutorials

2012 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems  
The workshops and tutorials will be held before and after the main conference, on the 7th of October, on Thursday afternoon and on Friday the 12th of October. The events will take place at the main conference venue, with sessions from 8h30 or 14h00 until 18h30. The technical sessions range from regular paper presentations to keynote invited talks, panel discussion or even poster sessions. The IROS2012 workshop and tutorial proceedings will be published in DVD format and distributed to
more » ... A special invited workshop on EU funding opportunities will be held on Thursday afternoon. In the next pages a brief description of the workshops and tutorials is presented, further details are provided on the main conference website with links to each workshop and tutorial website. Abstract: Domains where human behavior understanding is a crucial need (e.g., robotics, human-computer interaction, affective computing, and social signal processing) rely on advanced pattern recognition techniques to automatically interpret complex behavioral patterns generated when humans interact with machines or with others. This is a challenging problem where many issues are still open, including the joint modeling of behavioral cues taking place at different time scales, the inherent uncertainty of machine detectable evidences of human behavior, the mutual influence of people involved in interactions, the presence of long term dependencies in observations extracted from human behavior, and the important role of dynamics in human behavior understanding. Implementing these methods on robotic platforms introduces further constraints on processing resources, tracking over time, model building, and generalization. This workshop, organized as a satellite to IROS'2012, will gather researchers dealing with the problem of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of relational attitudes, performance of individual or joint actions, imitation, etc.), with particular attention to implications in robotics, including additional resource and robustness constraints of robotic platforms, social aspects of human-robot interaction, and developmental approaches to robotics. The HBU Workshops, previously organized as satellite to ICPR and AMI Conferences, have a unique aspect of fostering cross-pollination of different disciplines, bringing together researchers of robotics, HCI, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, interaction design, ambient intelligence, psychology. The diversity of human behavior, the richness of multi-modal data that arises from its analysis, and the multitude of applications that demand rapid progress in this area ensure that the HBU Workshops provide a timely and relevant discussion and dissemination platform. Sunday, Abstract: This tutorial provides a hands-on introduction to ROS -Robotic Operating System -and its use for robot in-hand manipulation. ROS has been emerging as a standard for robot software development. It is an open-source, metaoperating system that provides hardware abstraction services. It implements low and high level functionality components addressing robot perception, control and planning, focusing on the modularity and reusability of code contributed by a growing user community. ROS is designed to be as thin as possible, with no wrapping of user code so that it can be used with other robot software frameworks. The preferred development model is to have ROS independent libraries with clean interfaces. It is language independent, easy to use and scalable to large runtime systems and processes. The speakers at the tutorial are researchers that are currently working on in-hand manipulation and using ROS for their work, providing practical case studies and examples, and bringing along some hardware to showcase and eventually test the attendees' tutorial code. As an outcome of this tutorial, attendees will have a basic knowledge on how to use ROS for manipulation, experience practical cases related with perception and action for robotic in-hand object
doi:10.1109/iros.2012.6385452 fatcat:mrpj42r2sbhtjekjai3xcuxgue