OpenRDK Workshop

Rome, March, 16th - 19th 2009

The OpenRDK Workshop will take place from March, 16th to March, 19th in the Department of Computer and Systems Science of "Sapienza" University of Rome - Via Ariosto, 25 - Rome, Italy. Some researchers that are currently using the OpenRDK framework in their work, will show their experience and discuss about future extensions.

Notes:
- the following program is a draft and it will be updated;
- all the talks will be in English;
- the time of the presentations includes the discussion.

Monday, March, 16th

15.45 - 17.15: Introduction to software development in robotics and the OpenRDK framework
15.45 - 16.00 (15 min): Introduction to the workshop (D. Nardi)
16.00 - 16.20 (20 min): Software development in robotics, frameworks, tools and the OpenRDK (D. Calisi) [download presentation]
16.20 - 16.45 (25 min): The OpenRDK framework: a not-so-short tutorial - Part 1 (D. Calisi) [download presentation]
16.45 - 17.05 (20 min): The OpenRDK framework: a not-so-short tutorial - Part 2 (D. Calisi) [download presentation]
17.20 - 18.40: Simulation in robotics development
17.20 - 17.40 (20 min): Simulation as a tool to speed up testing and developing (G. Randelli, D. Calisi) [download presentation]
17.40 - 18.00 (20 min): The Player universal driver and the Stage/Gazebo simulators (D. Calisi) [download presentation]
18.00 - 18.40 (40 min): The USARSim 3D simulator (G. Randelli) [download presentation]

Tuesday, March, 17th

10.15 - 11.45: Motion Planning and Learning
10.15 - 10.45 (30 min): Learning in robotics (L. Iocchi, F. Giannone) [download presentation]
10.45 - 11.15 (30 min): Motion planning, control and obstacle avoidance (D. Calisi) [download presentation]
11.15 - 11.45 (30 min): Using OpenRDK to learn walk parameters for the humanoid robot Nao (F. Giannone, L. Iocchi) [download presentation]
12.00 - 13.20: Human Robot Interaction
12.00 - 12.40 (40 min): Jabon - a SOAP toolkit for integration of OpenRDK with external applications (D. Rodriguez-Losada) [download presentation]
12.40 - 13.20 (40 min): Hierarchical HRI model for control and supervision of robot teams (A. Valero) [download presentation]
13.20 - 13.25 (5 min): The agent who opened to the world (D. Calisi) [download presentation]
15.30: OpenRDK discussions

Wednesday, March, 18th

10.15 - 11.55: Perception and mapping
10.15 - 10.55 (40 min): Feature based SLAM with splines (L. Pedraza) [download presentation]
10.55 - 11.35 (40 min): 3D Mapping (P. de la Puente) [download presentation]
11.35 - 11.55 (20 min): Fast processing of grid maps with GPUs and CUDA (D. Rodriguez-Losada) [presentation coming soon]
12.00 - 13.20: PNP (Petri Net Plans), Context-based systems and Declarative programming
12.00 - 12.40 (40 min): PNP (Petri Net Plans) (M. Leonetti) [download presentation]
12.40 - 13.20 (40 min): Context-based systems (C.M. Scalzo, D. Nardi) [download presentation]

Thursday, March, 19th

10.30 - 12.00: Demo session
(D. Calisi, G. Randelli, L. Iocchi, L. Marchetti)
12.00 - 13.30: Video session
(All)