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Full day Workshop on Benchmarking Bipedal Locomotion
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PLACE AND DATES:
- IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2014 Conference, Madrid, Spain
- Nov 18, 2014, 9:00 – 18:00
- Workshop webpage: http://orb.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/koroibot/?page_id=492
ORGANIZERS:
- Diego Torricelli, CSIC, Spain, diego.torricelli@csic.es
- Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, katja.mombaur@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de,
- Nikos Tsakarakis, IIT, Italy, nikos.tsagarakis@iit.it
- Alexander Schubert, University of Heidelberg, alexander.schubert@iwr.uni-- heidelberg.de
- Jose L. Pons, CSIC, Spain
- Zibin Li, IIT, Italy
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
The need for reliable benchmarks of bipedal locomotion is becoming more and more relevant in the robotic and human biomechanics fields. Such benchmarks or performance indicators are important in order to:
- Assess on a quantitative basis the general walking performance of a bipedal system (robotic or human) such as stability, efficiency, and versatility.
- Define what “human-like” really means, which is an often used but never strictly defined term.
- Compare the abilities of different systems to each other, such as robots vs. humans, or healthy vs. pathologic behaviors.
Despite the growing relevance of this field, no consensus has been achieved yet about the set of benchmarks that should be adopted. To fill this gap, three European Project (H2R, Koroibot, and Walk-Man) have set this workshop to involve the international community in a thorough discussion about the above key features, with a specific focus on the assessment methods and protocols that can be easily applied across different laboratory settings.
ORGANIZATION:
The aim of this workshop is to really WORK together. To this aim, the organization of this workshop will deviate from the usual talk-based structure. After several very short challenge talks, the workshop will essentially be structured in small discussion groups, in order to promote real debate and reasoning, which possibly result, at the end of the day, in a preliminary proposal of benchmarks to be proposed to the international forum. The discussion groups will be focusing on the different aspects related to functional performance and human-likeness, such as stability, efficiency, dynamic similarity, passive dynamics, etc. The discussion groups will then present their results to all workshop participants.
A Poster Session will be also included, in order to promote the interchange of ideas among the participants during the coffee breaks.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
In order to be really productive, if you wish to actively contribute, please:
- Communicate your intention to participate, sending en email to diego.torricelli@csic.es
- Subscribe to the recently created mailing list on “Benchmarking bipedal locomotion” (https://listas.csic.es/wws/info/benchmarking_list). We will use this list to prepare the workshop in more detail, together with the attendees.
- If you wish to participate to the poster session, send a 2-page abstract, formatted according to the conference templates, to diego.torricelli@csic.es, by October 29. Notification of acceptance will be given by October 31.
- We would like to emphasize that due to the particular organization structure of the workshop with small discussion groups, participants are encouraged to participate the whole day and not to plan to perform workshop hopping.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
9:00 – 9:10: Introduction, goals of the workshop (Organizers)
9:10 – 10:30: Challenge talks
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break and Poster Session
11:00 – 12:30: Split of participants in discussion groups, 1st round of discussions
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: 2nd round of discussions, Conclusions within each discussion group
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break and Poster Session
16:00 – 17:00: Presentation of results of different discussion groups
17:00 – 18:00: Final discussion
LIST OF “CHALLENGE TALKS” SPEAKERS
- Christoph Klein, EU (to be confirmed)
- Olivier Stasse, LAAS-CNRS, France, KoroiBot project
- Jose Gonzales, CSIS, Spain, H2R project
- Diego Torricelli, CSIC, Spain, H2R project
- Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, Germany, KoroiBot project
- Nikos Tsakarakis, IIT, Italy, Walkman project
SUPPORTING PROJECTS AND TCS:
This workshop is organized by the European projects:
H2R: www.h2rproject.eu
KoroiBot: www.koroibot.eu
WALKMAN: www.walk-man.eu
This workshop is also supported by:
- “List on benchmarking bipedal locomotion” (https://listas.csic.es/wws/info/benchmarking_list)
- IEEE-RAS Technical committee on Model-based optimization for Robotic: www.tc-opt.uni-hd.de
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Full day Workshop on Benchmarking Bipedal Locomotion
===========================================
PLACE AND DATES:
- IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2014 Conference, Madrid, Spain
- Nov 18, 2014, 9:00 – 18:00
- Workshop webpage: http://orb.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/koroibot/?page_id=492
ORGANIZERS:
- Diego Torricelli, CSIC, Spain, diego.torricelli@csic.es
- Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, katja.mombaur@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de,
- Nikos Tsakarakis, IIT, Italy, nikos.tsagarakis@iit.it
- Alexander Schubert, University of Heidelberg, alexander.schubert@iwr.uni-- heidelberg.de
- Jose L. Pons, CSIC, Spain
- Zibin Li, IIT, Italy
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
The need for reliable benchmarks of bipedal locomotion is becoming more and more relevant in the robotic and human biomechanics fields. Such benchmarks or performance indicators are important in order to:
- Assess on a quantitative basis the general walking performance of a bipedal system (robotic or human) such as stability, efficiency, and versatility.
- Define what “human-like” really means, which is an often used but never strictly defined term.
- Compare the abilities of different systems to each other, such as robots vs. humans, or healthy vs. pathologic behaviors.
Despite the growing relevance of this field, no consensus has been achieved yet about the set of benchmarks that should be adopted. To fill this gap, three European Project (H2R, Koroibot, and Walk-Man) have set this workshop to involve the international community in a thorough discussion about the above key features, with a specific focus on the assessment methods and protocols that can be easily applied across different laboratory settings.
ORGANIZATION:
The aim of this workshop is to really WORK together. To this aim, the organization of this workshop will deviate from the usual talk-based structure. After several very short challenge talks, the workshop will essentially be structured in small discussion groups, in order to promote real debate and reasoning, which possibly result, at the end of the day, in a preliminary proposal of benchmarks to be proposed to the international forum. The discussion groups will be focusing on the different aspects related to functional performance and human-likeness, such as stability, efficiency, dynamic similarity, passive dynamics, etc. The discussion groups will then present their results to all workshop participants.
A Poster Session will be also included, in order to promote the interchange of ideas among the participants during the coffee breaks.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
In order to be really productive, if you wish to actively contribute, please:
- Communicate your intention to participate, sending en email to diego.torricelli@csic.es
- Subscribe to the recently created mailing list on “Benchmarking bipedal locomotion” (https://listas.csic.es/wws/info/benchmarking_list). We will use this list to prepare the workshop in more detail, together with the attendees.
- If you wish to participate to the poster session, send a 2-page abstract, formatted according to the conference templates, to diego.torricelli@csic.es, by October 29. Notification of acceptance will be given by October 31.
- We would like to emphasize that due to the particular organization structure of the workshop with small discussion groups, participants are encouraged to participate the whole day and not to plan to perform workshop hopping.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
9:00 – 9:10: Introduction, goals of the workshop (Organizers)
9:10 – 10:30: Challenge talks
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break and Poster Session
11:00 – 12:30: Split of participants in discussion groups, 1st round of discussions
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: 2nd round of discussions, Conclusions within each discussion group
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break and Poster Session
16:00 – 17:00: Presentation of results of different discussion groups
17:00 – 18:00: Final discussion
LIST OF “CHALLENGE TALKS” SPEAKERS
- Christoph Klein, EU (to be confirmed)
- Olivier Stasse, LAAS-CNRS, France, KoroiBot project
- Jose Gonzales, CSIS, Spain, H2R project
- Diego Torricelli, CSIC, Spain, H2R project
- Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, Germany, KoroiBot project
- Nikos Tsakarakis, IIT, Italy, Walkman project
SUPPORTING PROJECTS AND TCS:
This workshop is organized by the European projects:
H2R: www.h2rproject.eu
KoroiBot: www.koroibot.eu
WALKMAN: www.walk-man.eu
This workshop is also supported by:
- “List on benchmarking bipedal locomotion” (https://listas.csic.es/wws/info/benchmarking_list)
- IEEE-RAS Technical committee on Model-based optimization for Robotic: www.tc-opt.uni-hd.de