International Workshop on Hardware and software modularity and interoperability in service robotics: Towards standardisation
Modularity should not be a goal but be a means to achieve flexibility, adaptability, easy re-configurability and quick prototyping of bespoke robot systems. The workshop aims are:
- To provide a state of the art on service robot modularity from research and standardisation viewpoints
- To involve European researchers and companies in the ISO TC184/SC2/WG10 (Modularity for service robots) standardisation work and highlight the relevance of contributions from the European robotics community.
- To create a medium for open discussion on robot modularity between the TG Standardisation, European research community, robotics companies and WG10.
- To understand how industry benefited from modularity standards in other areas, (e.g., computing, automotive, telecommunications)
- To tackle “buy-in” resistance from some EU companies with regards to open robot modularity standards.
Exact date: Thursday 12th of March 2015
(Tentative) Program
10:45–10:50 Introduction by the moderators 10:50–11:50 Short presentations by selected participants, followed by a questions and answers and discussion 11:50–12:15 Round Table Discussion and Conclusions for the Roadmapping Process under SPARC/Horizon 2020
- Gurvinder Virk – Professor of Robotics – University of Gävle – Sweden (Slides)
- Paolo Barattini – Ridgeback SAS – Italy
- Lars Dalgaard – Head of Service Robotics – Danish Technological Institute – Denmark (Slides)
- Dimitris Chrysostomou – Aalborg University – Denmark (Slides)
- Christian Wögerer – Profactor GmbH – Austria
- Johann Hegel – AUDI AG – Germany
- Zhenzhou Shao – Capital Normal University – China (Slides)
- Mariusz Baldyga – European Commission
- Tamas Haidegger – Obuda University – Hungary (Slides)
- Matteo Matteucci – Politecnico of Milano – Italy (Slides)
- Ulrich Reiser – Fraunhofer DE – Germany
- Rich Walker – Shadow Robot – United Kingdom
- Christian Lehmann – Brandenburg University of Technology – Germany
- Geoffrey Biggs – Intelligent Systems Research Institute – Japan (Slides)
- Reinhard Lafrenz – Institut für Informatik VITechnische Universität München – Germany
Next to the name of some speakers, you can find the presented slides in pdf format.
Paolo Barattini – Sharika.eu
Maria Elena Giannaccini – Bristol Robotics Laboratory/University of Salford, United Kingdom
Nicole Mirnig – University of Salzburg, Austria
Lars Dalgaard – Danish Technological Institute, Denmark
Dimitris Chrysostomou – Aalborg University, Denmark
Nicola Bellotto – University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Tamas Haidegger – Obuda University, Hungary
Michael Hofbaur – Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria