Program

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

19:00 – 00:00

Early Arrivals Welcome Reception
insel-hotel Heilbronn
Willy-Mayer-Brücke, D-74072 Heilbronn

08:00	Bus shuttle to Hausen*
08:30	Registration and Coffee
09:30 – 09:35	Welcome by Henrik A. Schunk
09:35 – 09:50	Introduction by Martin Hägele
09:50 – 10:00	Introduction by Prof. Dr. Henrik I. Christensen
Session 1:	Networking and R&D
10:00 – 10:30	Dr. Uwe Haass Will effective innovation management advance robotics?
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 11:30	Thilo K. Brodtmann Networked thinking, networked actions - robotics platforms in Europe
11:30 – 12:00	Dr. Johannes Kurth KUKA’s reference products for robotics research and education
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch and Exhibition
Session 2:	Service Robots in Industry
13:30 – 14:00	Roberto Guzmán Robotnik - 10 years of service robotics
14:00 – 14:30	Prasenjit Mukherjee ROS-based outdoor mobile manipulation
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee
15:00 – 15:30	Stephan Bartscher The future of service robotics in the automotive industry
15:30 – 16:00	Dr. Björn Matthias The future of industrial assembly
16:00 – 17:00	Exhibition
17:00	Bus shuttle to Heilbronn*
19:00	Social Event

Session 3:	Gripping and Robot Control
08:00	Bus shuttle to Hausen*
09:00 – 09:30	Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone Toward the design of a low-cost easyoperation robotic hand
09:30 – 10:00	Dr. Robert Haschke Flexible tactile sensors for robotics and other applications
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 11:00	Zhixing Xue Grasp planning using geometric decomposition for multifingered hands
11:00 – 11:30	Rüdiger Frank Current and tomorrow's robot applications from the point of view of safe automation
11:30 – 13:00	Lunch and Exhibition
Session 4:	Service Robots in Personal Life
13:00 – 13:30	Dr. Heico Sandee Service robotics for healthcare in the Netherlands
13:30 – 14:00	Torsten Heyer Return to professional life by means of FRIEND
14:00 – 14:30	Dejan Pangercic Shared autonomy for robotic solving of real world household tasks
14:30	Exhibition, Discussion, Coffee and Open End
14:45	Bus shuttle to Heilbronn*

* Free shuttle buses to and from Heilbronn are available.

Lectures and discussions are in English.
Preliminary program. Subject to change without notice.

Location:
SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG
Wilhelm-Maybach-Str. 3
D-74336 Brackenheim-Hausen

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