Workshops and Tutorials

By registering for the workshops/tutorials, you will gain access to any workshop or tutorial on Monday 23 May 2022 and Friday 27 May 2022. Please refer to the registration for details on the various registration categories (registration page coming soon).

Please see the following for each workshop or tutorial along with its schedule and venue. In addition, information for the workshop/tutorial presenters/posters is available at the end of this page.

Monday - 23 May 2022

Full Day Workshops & Tutorials - 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

Title Organizers Room
Tools for Robotic Reinforcement Learning Raffin, Antonin; Van der Heijden, Bas; Luijkx, Jelle; Kober, Jens 115 A
Frontiers of Endoluminal Intervention: Clinical opportunities and technical challenges Dagnino, Giulio; Burgner-Kahrs, Jessica; Menciassi, Arianna; Wurdemann, Helge Arne 112 B

Human-Centered Autonomy in Medical Robotics

Atashzar, S. Farokh; Nisky, Ilana; Ryu, Jee-Hwan; Tavakoli, Mahdi

121 C
Intelligent Aerial Robotics: From Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles to Sustainable Urban Air Mobility and Operations

Ollero, Anibal; Del Pozo, Isabel; Loianno, Giuseppe; Jing Xiang, Victoria; Alexis, Kostas; Valavanis, Kimon

118 B
Compliant Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities

Morgan, Andrew; Hang, Kaiyu; Wan, Weiwei; Roa, Maximo A.; Dollar, Aaron

108 A
Challenges and Opportunities of Bio-inspired Design, Actuation, and Locomotion

Chen, YuFeng; Chirarattananon, Pakpong; Helbling, E. Farrell; Paik, Jamie

113 A

Exploring the Roles of Robots for Embodied Mediation

Brock, Heike; Weisswange, Thomas H; Thill, Serge; Jung, Malte; Horowitz, Aaron

112 A
4th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction

Rudenko, Andrey; Palmieri, Luigi; Bajcsy, Andrea; Li, Jiachen; Arras, Kai Oliver; Alahi, Alexandre; Lilienthal, Achim J.

120 C
Workshop on Collaborative Robots and the Work of the Future

Fourie, Christopher K; Figueroa, Nadia; Shah, Julie A.; Armstrong, Ben; Chan, Wesley Patrick; Croft, Elizabeth; Prabhakar, Ahalya; Billard, Aude; Riek, Laurel D.; Ding, Hao; Moss, Dominik; Kraus, Werner; Dinh Quy, Nguyen; Nikovski, Daniel; Vetro, Anthony

122 B
Shared Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Adaptability and Trust

Selvaggio, Mario; Cognetti, Marco; Gomes, Waldez; Nikolaidis, Stefanos; Ivaldi, Serena; Siciliano, Bruno

113 B
Robotics for Climate Change

Salam, Tahiya; Manjanna, Sandeep; Molodtsov, Sergey; Hsieh, M. Ani; Dudek, Gregory

108 B
Workshop on Verification of Autonomous Systems (VAS)

Araiza Illan, Dejanira; Fisher, Michael; Ibanez-Guzman, Javier; Murahwi, Zvikomborero; Olszewska, Joanna Isabelle; Pinto, Alessandro; Redfield, Signe

124
Opportunities and Challenges with Autonomous Racing

Betz, Johannes; Behl, Madhur; Krovi, Venkat; Mangharam, Rahul

121 B
2nd Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects

Lippi, Martina; Welle, Michael C.; Seita, Daniel; Yin, Hang; Kragic, Danica; Marino, Alessandro; Held, David; Karayiannidis, Yiannis

113 C
Online machine learning-based control of lower-limb exoskeletons

Young, Aaron; Kang, Inseung; Shepherd, Max; Molinaro, Dean; Evangelopoulos, Georgios

122 A

Robotic Perception and Mapping: Emerging Techniques

Fathian, Kaveh; Carlone, Luca; How, Jonathan

119 AB
Intelligent Control Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms for Human-Robot Interaction and Assistive Robotics

Sharifi, Mojtaba; Tavakoli, Mahdi; Mushahwar, Vivian K.; Krebs, Hermano Igo; Nejat, Goldie; Nanayakkara, Thrishantha; Abbink, David A.

118 C
Robotics and Art: Automating Expressions

LaViers, Amy; Wang, James; Herath, Damith Chandana; Nilles, Alexandra

109 B
Impulsive systems: principles of rapid energy release and applications to unique robot behaviors

Wood, Robert; Bergbreiter, Sarah; Patek, Sheila

117
Innovation in Forestry Robotics: Research and Industry Adoption

Kantor, George; Yandun, Francisco

116
Challenges in Applying Academic Research to Real-World Robotics

Schenck, Connor; Byravan, Arunkumar; Davidson, James; Kuindersma, Scott

115 C
Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools

Zardini, Gioele; Censi, Andrea; Lorand, Jonathan; Frazzoli, Emilio; Spivak, David Isaac; Fong, Brendan; Perrone, Paolo; Baez, John; Shell, Dylan; Nilles, Alexandra; Spielberg, Andrew; Collin, Anne; Kvalheim, Matthew; Gustafson, Paul; Koditschek, Daniel; Ames, Aaron

125
Determining Appropriate Metrics and Test Methods for Soft Actuators in Robotic Systems 

Olson, Gina; Case, Jennifer

120 A
Workshop on Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots

Rubenstein, Michael; Petersen, Kirstin Hagelskjaer; Rus, Daniela

120 B

Half Day Workshops & Tutorials - AM: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Title Organizers Room
Future of Construction: Build Faster, Better, Safer - Together with Robots

Chen, Jingdao; Cho, Yong Kwon; Jeong, Inbae; Feng, Chen; Zhang, Liangjun

123
Jamming in Robotics: From Fundamental Building Blocks to Robotic Applications Howe, Robert D.; Menciassi, Arianna; Cianchetti, Matteo; Aktas, Buse 121 A

Half Day Workshops & Tutorials - PM: 1:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Title Organizers Room
Pushing the boundaries of workplace automation. Meaningful work and human-robot interaction

Dario, Paolo

123

Friday - 27 May 2022

Full Day Workshops & Tutorials: 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

Title Organizers Room
Canonical DIY Tutorials on Non-Gaussian SLAM and Computation Fourie, Dehann; Claassens, Samuel David; Terblanche, Johan 121 A
How to write an R-article and benchmark your results Bonsignorio, Fabio; Faragasso, Angela; Yamamoto, Tomoyuki; Redfield, Signe; del Pobil, Angel P. 120 B
Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Danica Kragic, Hui Li, Lin Shao, Pham Quang Cuong, Vikash Kumar

118 C
Challenges of Flapping-Wing Aerial Robots

Rashad, Ramy; Califano, Federico; Dijkshoorn, Alexander; Groot Koerkamp, Luuk; Sneep, Riccardo; Brugnoli, Andrea; Stramigioli, Stefano

122 A
Social Robot Navigation: Advances and Evaluation

Biswas, Abhijat; Tsoi, Nathan; Wang, Allan; Vázquez, Marynel; Steinfeld, Aaron

123
2nd Workshop on BIMANUAL MANIPULATION: ADDRESSING REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES

Chen, Fei; Li, Miao; Calinon, Sylvain; Figueroa, Nadia; Zhu, Jihong

121 B

Addressing Ethical and Technical Challenges in the Development, Use, and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (starts at 8am)

Miracchi, Lisa; Koditschek, Daniel; Horowitz, Michael

112 B
Debates on the Future of Robotics Research

Herbert, Sylvia; Kousik, Shreyas

108 A
Fresh Perspectives on the Future of Autonomous Driving

Zagoruyko, Sergey; Gurau, Corina; Osinski, Blazej; Ondruska, Peter; Rhinehart, Nicholas; Codevilla, Felipe; McAllister, Rowan; Hu, Anthony

118 B
4th Workshop on Integrating Multidisciplinary Approaches to Advance Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Challenges of Interfacing Wearable Robots with the Human Neuromotor System

Maurice, Pauline; Huber, Meghan; Latella, Claudia; Ivaldi, Serena; Ajoudani, Arash

120 A
Workshop on Collective Robotic Construction

Petersen, Kirstin Hagelskjaer; Napp, Nils; Hamann, Heiko; Heinrich, Mary Katherine

121 C
Releasing Robots into the Wild: Simulations, Benchmarks, and Deployment

Schoellig, Angela P.; Scaramuzza, Davide; Hall, Adam W.; Yuan, Zhaocong; Panerati, Jacopo; Zhou, Siqi; Brunke, Lukas; Greeff, Melissa

113 C
Sound for Robots: Understanding and Harnessing Sound for Robotic Systems

Zhang, Brian John; Fick, Jason; Fitter, Naomi T.

116
Safe and Reliable Robot Autonomy under Uncertainty

Chou, Glen; Veer, Sushant; Heim, Steve; Djeumou, Franck; Everett, Michael; Marco, Alonso

118 A
Energy Storage and Delivery in Robotics Systems

Duduta, Mihai; Temel, Zeynep; Pikul, James

117
The 6th Workshop on Legged Robots

Fahmi, Shamel; Kanoulas, Dimitrios; Bjelonic, Marko; Kottege, Navinda; Walas, Krzysztof, Tadeusz

122 B
Scaling Robot Learning

Mees, Oier; Burgard, Wolfram; Calandra, Roberto; Zeng, Andy; Kragic, Danica; Hadsell, Raia; Ivaldi, Serena

108 B
Behaviour Priors in Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Rana, Krishan; Dasagi, Vibhavari; Rakelly, Kate; Melnik, Andrew; Sünderhauf, Niko

119 B

Leveraging Advancements in Smart Materials Science: Soft Robots Gaining New Abilities through Smart and Functional Materials

Raatz, Annika; Peters, Jan; Brock, Oliver; Wurdemann, Helge Arne; Zhao, Renee; Suzumori, Koichi

109 B
Perspectives on Achieving Research Convergence for Robotics-Enabled Future of Work

Calli, Berk; Padir, Taskin; Wrzesniewski, Amy; Vincze, Markus; Sasser-Modestino, Alicia; Dollar, Aaron; Collins, Emily Charlotte

112 A
ICRA 2022 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics and Automation

Popovic, Marija; Chebrolu, Nived; Marks, Elias; Magistri, Federico; Lehnert, Christopher; Stachniss, Cyrill; Rückin, Julius

113 A
Prediction and Anticipation Reasoning in Human Robot Interaction

Garrell, Anais; Canal, Gerard; Ros, Raquel

125
New frontiers of parallel robotics (second edition)

Briot, Sébastien; Burgner-Kahrs, Jessica; Carricato, Marco; Loianno, Giuseppe

120 C
Motion Planning with Implicit Neural Representations of Geometry

Culbertson, Preston; Kousik, Shreyas; Bohg, Jeannette; Schwager, Mac

115 C

Half Day Workshops & Tutorials - AM: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Title Organizers Room
Learning Motion Control for Mobile Robot Navigation -- A Tutorial Xiao, Xuesu; Warnell, Garrett; Mavrogiannis, Christoforos; Stone, Peter 119A
Bio-inspired and Bio-hybrid (Cyborg) Systems

Sato, Hirotaka; Fukuda, Toshio; Morishima, Keisuke; Raman, Barani; Valdivia y Alvarado, Pablo; Augustine, George; Umezu, Shinjiro; Li, Yao; Vo-Doan, T. Thang

124
Tutorial on Koopman Operator and Lifting Linearization: Emerging Theory and Applications of Exact Global Linearization of Nonlinear Robotic Systems Asada, Harry 113B

Half Day Workshops & Tutorials - PM: 1:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Title Organizers Room
Human-in-the-loop paradigm for assistive robotics

Cordella, Francesca; Farina, Dario; Zollo, Loredana

113 B
Toward AI-embedded robots in 2050

Harada, Kanako; Laschi, Cecilia

124