Robotics Research Jam Session 2024

Since 2011, on occasion of the graduation of our Ph.D. students in Robotics, we invite distinguished guests in the jury and take the opportunity to build a very informal brainstorming workshop.

The casual style of arranging talk topics and the interaction of enthusiastic researchers creates an interesting "jam session" style, which we are repeating ever since.

Current Edition: RRJS' 24

Dates 11-12 July 2024

Location

- Pacinotti Room, School of Engineering - Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa

Info e bio here

PROGRAMME

- Teams (link here) – day 1

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

11:00 Ph.D. Defense Talk: “Advancements in robotic automation and navigation in complex and interactive environments”

Elisa Stefanini, Ph.D. student - University of Pisa

13:00 - Lunch

14:00 – Welcome - Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa and IIT

14:15 – “Factor Graphs with Implicit Data Association in Sensing”

Giorgio Grisetti, University "La Sapienza", Roma

14:45 – “Haptics for Robotics Perception and Control”

Matteo Bianchi, University of Pisa

15:15 - Coffee Break

15:45 – “Soft Matter Mechanics and Materials for Tactile Perception”

Charles Dhong, University of Delaware, US

16:15 – “Observer design for hybrid systems with application to robotics”

Pauline Bernard, ParisTech, Université PSL, France

16:45 – “Deeps Neural Networks for Motion Generation and Intention Recognition in Collaborative Tasks”

Aleš Ude, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

 

Friday, July 12th, 2024

- Teams (link here) – day 2

 

Ph.D. Defense Talk – “A Suspended Aerial Manipulation Avatar for Unstructured Environments”

Fanyi Kong, Ph.D. student - University of Pisa

Ph.D. Defense Talk – “Planning and Control For Soft Robots: Learning In A Model-Based Paradigm”

Michele Pierallini, Ph.D. student - University of Pisa

Ph.D. Defense Talk – “Shaping the information flow in robotic systems: from measures of information to active sensing control strategies”

Olga Napolitano, Ph.D. student - University of Pisa

13:00 - Lunch

14:00 – “Embracing the positive side of constraints: how we grasped novel scientific opportunities in aerial robotics”

Antonio Franchi - University of Twente and University “La Sapienza”, Rome

14:30 – “A long journey from mastering elastic actuator dynamics towards impulsive manipulation and efficient locomotion”

Christian Ott - Technische Universität Wien, Vienna

15:00 – “Dynamic modelling, identification and oscillation suppression for a cable-suspended dual-arm (aerial) manipulator”

Vincenzo Lippiello - University “Federico II”, Naples

15:30 - Coffee Break

16:00 – “Multi-Sensor Fusion for Robot Navigation”

Stephan Michael Weiss - University of Klagenfurt (AAU), Austria

16:30 – “Soft robotics”

Cecilia Laschi - National University of Singapore, Singapore

17:00 - Closing Remarks

Lucia Pallottino, Director, Reseach Center "E. Piaggio", University of Pisa

 

Edizioni passate

2023 2019 - Mezzestate 2014
2022 2018 2013
2020 2016 2012
2019 - Primavera 2015 2011

 

 

 

 

Relatori nelle passate edizioni:

Arash Ajoudani Marco Ernst Jean-Paul Laumond
Alin Albu-Schäffer Adriano Fagiolini Matteo Leonetti
Tamim Asfur Cesare Fantuzzi Achim Lilienthal
Gabriele Baud Bovy Roy Piumapietra Franziska Meier
Massimo Bergamasco Vincenzo Ferrari Arianna Menciassi
Maren Bennewitz Fanny Ficuciello Silvestro Micera
Marco Bettiol Paolo Fiorini Igor Mordatach
Matteo Bianchi Antonio Franchi Marcia K. O'Malley
Jeanette Bohg Antonio Frisoli Claudio Pacchierotti
Oliver Brock Manuel G. Catalano Lucia Pallottino
Etienne Burdet Marco Gabiccini Antonio Pascoal
Wolfram Burgard Manolo Garabini Wilfrid Perucchetti
Andrea Caiti Clemente Gosselin Domenico Prattichizzo
Darwin Caldwell Giorgio Grioli Paolo Robuffo Giordano
Giorgio Cannata Rodérico Grupen Paolo Rocco
Danilo Caporale Sami Haddadin Alberto Rodríguez
Francois Chaumette Chris Hauser Marco Santello
Monique Chyba Vincent Hayward Nikos Tsagarakis
Han Lim Choi Seth Hutchinson Giuseppe Turchetti
Cristiano Cipriani Matt Johnson-Roberson Gaetano Valenza
J. Edward Colgate di Henrik Jorntell Herman Van der Kooij
Riccardo Costanzi Astrid Cappero Bram Vanderborght
Marco R. Cutrosky Mitsuo Kawato Marilena Vendittelli
Alessandro De Luca Osama Khatib Manuel Giuseppe Catalano
Leonardo De Mattos Caterina J. Kuchenbecker Andrea M. Zanchettin
Magnus Egerstedt Kostas Kyryakopoulos Gionata Salvetti
Maura Casadio Paolo Tripicchio Egidio Falotico
Alessandro Dietrich Seth Hutchinson