Program

08:50-09:00 Welcome and Greetings

09:00-09:50 Keynote 1: Martin Riedmiller

• Intelligence scores goals - Machine Learning for autonomous robots

09:50-10:14 Oral Session 1:

• Arne Böckmann and Tim Laue: Kick Motions for the NAO Robot using Dynamic Movement Primitives
• Abbas Abdolmaleki, David Simoes, Nuno Lau and Luis Paulo Reis: Learning a Humanoid Kick With Controlled Distance

10:14-10:25 Poster teasers

10:25-11:15 Poster Session with coffee break

11:15-12:05 Keynote 2: Davide Scaramuzza

• Towards Agile Flight of Vision-controlled Micro Flying Robots: from Active Perception to Event-based Vision

12:05-12:29 Oral Session 2:

• Leonardo Lanari, Oliver Urbann, Seth Hutchinson and Ingmar Schwarz: Boundedness Approach to Gait Planning for the Flexible Linear Inverted Pendulum Model
• Andreas Seekircher and Ubbo Visser: A Closed-Loop Gait for Humanoid Robots Combining LIPM with Parameter Optimization

12:29-12:40 Poster teasers

12:40-14:00 Lunch and poster session

14:00-14:50 Keynote 3: Ruzena Bajcsy

• Framework for Individualized Dynamical Modeling of Human Motion

14:50-15:38 Oral Session 3:

• Philip Cooksey, Juan Pablo Mendoza and Manuela Veloso: Opponent-aware ball-manipulation skills for an autonomous soccer robot
• Daniel Speck, Pablo Barros, Cornelius Weber and Stefan Wermter: Ball Localization for RoboCup Soccer using Convolutional Neural Networks
• Alexander Hagg, Frederik Hegger and Paul Gerhard Plöger: On Recognizing Transparent Objects in Domestic Environments Using Fusion of Multiple Sensor Modalities
• M. Hossein Mirabdollah, Mahmoud Mohamed and Bärbel Mertsching: Distributed Averages of Gradients (DAG): A Fast Alternative for Histogram of Oriented Gradients

15:38-15:50 Poster teasers

15:50-16:40 Poster Session with coffee break

16:40-17:52 Oral Session 4:

• Yusuke Adachi, Masahide Ito and Tadashi Naruse: Classifying strategies of an opponent team based on a sequence of actions in RoboCup SSL
• Michael Grupp, Philipp Kopp, Patrik Huber and Matthias Rätsch: A 3D Face Modelling Approach for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition in a Human-Robot Environment
• Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone: UT Austin Villa RoboCup 3D Simulation Base Code Release
• Thomas Gabel, Egbert Falkenberg and Eicke Godehardt: Progress in RoboCup Revisited: The State of Soccer Simulation 2D
• Sebastian Zug, Tim Niemueller, Nico Hochgeschwender, Kai Seidensticker, Martin Seidel, Tim Friedrich, Tobias Neumann, Ulrich Karras, Gerhard Kraetzschmar and Alexander Ferrein: An Integration Challenge to Bridge the Gap among Industry-inspired RoboCup Leagues
• Remi Fabre, Quentin Rouxel, Passault Gregoire, Steve N'Guyen and Olivier Ly. Dynaban: Open-Source Alternative Firmware for Dynamixel Servo-Motors

17:52-18:00 Award Ceremony