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ROSCon 2016: Seoul, Korea �IROS 2016: Daejeon, Korea

Zihan Chen

10/24/2016

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ROSCon

  • 6th ROSCon
  • Date: 10/07 ~ 10/08 2days
  • Location: Seoul Conrad Hotel
  • 450 attendees
  • Live stream on Ubuntu
  • http://roscon.ros.org/2016/
    • All presentation slides and videos ONLINE!!!

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ROSCon: ROS is HERE!!!

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Not just US & Europe

More interest from Industry

Big momentum (+46%)

Cited a LOT!

Credit: ROSCon 2016

Credit: ROSCon 2016

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ROSCon: List of interesting talks

  • ROS related:
    • Gazebo update (mostly GUI)
    • ROS 2 (moving slowly and still alpha version)
  • ANYmal: How to build a reliable large system
  • S-ROS: Security ROS
  • RTROS: ROS real-time
  • Software releasing: Clearpath
    • Commercial system based on ROS
  • Editor: QtCreator ROS Plugin

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ROSCon: ANYmal (IROS Best Paper)

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Credit: From Peter Fanhauser’s ROSCon slides

Available for sale next year

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ROSCon: How to Keep things Smooth

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Credit: From Peter Fanhauser’s ROSCon slides

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ROSCon: ANYmal useful open pkgs

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Credit: From Peter Fanhauser’s ROSCon slides

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ROSCon: RTROS

  • Key Contribution:
    • Identical API with Real Time Support
  • Users write SAME ROS code
  • Use shared memory (ach library)
  • NOT released yet
    • Expected release date: end of this year (2016)
    • https://vimeo.com/187696090

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ROSCon: RTROS Code Snippet

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Credit: From Jan Carstensen’s ROSCon slides

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ROSCon: Photo

Zihan

Photo credit: Evan Ackerman

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Thank you!

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IROS 2016: General Info

  • 2016 IROS 29th
  • Date: 10/10 ~ 10/14 5days
  • Location: Daejeon Convention Center
  • www.iros2016.org
  • 1719 submitted and 832 accepted (48.4%)
  • If you need conference digest or papers, please send me an email (zihan.chen@jhu.edu)

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IROS: Word Cloud (6748 words)

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118 Control

69 Based

68 Planning

55 Motion

51 Design

49 Learning

43 System

42 Dynamic

38 Visual

37 Estimation

37 Object

37 Human

35 Detection

34 Mobile

33 Environments

32 Manipulation

31 Aerial

30 Localization

30 Autonomous

29 Tracking

28 Online

28 Model

28 Force

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25 Optimization

24 Active

23 Recognition

23 Real-Time

23 Modeling

23 Robust

23 Path

22 Humanoid

22 Approach

22 Systems

21 Navigation

21 Generation

21 Efficient

20 Analysis

19 Performance

19 Towards

19 Models

18 Mapping

18 SLAM

17 Trajectory

17 Soft

17 Arm

16 Manipulator

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NOTE: robot/robotics/robots are NOT included

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IROS: List of interesting papers

  • Best Paper Awards
    • ANYmal - a Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot (ETH)
  • Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
    • A Palm for a Rock Climbing Robot Based on Dense Arrays of Micro-Spines (Stanford)
  • Others
    • Robust Material Classification with a Tactile Skin Using Deep Learning (DLR)
    • Localization from Visual Landmarks on a Free-Flying Robot
    • See the medical robotics papers slide
    • See the teleoperation papers slide

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IROS: Medical Robotics

  • Towards a Haptic Feedback Framework for Multi-DOF Robotic Laparoscopic Surgery Platforms (WPI)
  • Automatic Force-Compliant Robotic Ultrasound Screening of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (TUM)
  • Motor Channelling for Safe and Effective Dynamic Constraints in Minimally Invasive Surgery (Imperial College London)
  • A Hardware-in-the-loop Simulator for Safety Training in Robotic Surgery
  • Hand-Eye Calibration for Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery without a Calibration Object (University College London)
  • Hands-on reconfigurable robotic surgical instrument holder arm (Imperial College London)
  • Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang has 7 papers

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IROS: Teleoperation Papers

  • Performance Comparison of Wave Variable Transformation and Time Domain Passivity Approaches for Time-Delayed Teleoperation: Preliminary Results
  • A Hybrid Teleoperation Control Scheme for a Single-Arm Mobile Manipulator with Omnidirectional Wheels
  • Optimizing the Use of Power in Wave Based Bilateral Teleoperation
  • Enhancing Bilateral Teleoperation using Camera-Based Online Virtual Fixtures Generation
  • Admittance Shaping in Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation Control
  • Development of the Human Interactive Autonomy for the Shared Teleoperation of Mobile Robots

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Credit: IROS Digest

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Credit: X. Li et al

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Credit: IROS Digest

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Credit: Selvaggio et al.

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Others

  • Recommend: IROS Lifetime Talk
  • If travel to Korea, get a power adapter!
  • Business card still works
  • https://www.overleaf.com/read/cnxsspgvhnbb

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Thank you!

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