Program

Opening Remarks / Announcements

Paper Presentations: Robot Architectures and Control

• The TRADE Middleware for Advanced Robotic Architectures – Matthias Scheutz
• Towards Developing Standards and Guidelines for Robot Grasping and Manipulation Pipelines in the COMPARE Ecosystem Best Paper Award – Huajing Zhao, Brian Flynn, Adam Norton, Holly Yanco
• LiMPNet: Lightweight Multi-sensor Perception and DRL Navigation for Tiny Drones in Mapless Environments – Omer Kurkutlu, Arman Roohi
• Learning Multi-Modal Whole-Body Control for Real-World Humanoid Robots Best Paper Runner Up – Pranay Dugar, Aayam Shrestha, Fangzhou Yu, Bart van Marum, Alan Fern

Paper Presentations: Representations

• A Statistical Agent-Based Model Of Development And Evaluation – Samuel Denard
• A Conceptual Primitive Decomposition of the Sally-Anne Test – Jamie C. Macbeth, Boming Zhang, Sharmin Badhan
• Latent Hypothesis-Planned Exploration – Maxwell J. Jacobson, Yexiang Xue
• PlanOwl: Automated PDDL Files Generation from OWL Ontologies and Visual Language Models – Mark Adamik, Paolo Forte

Opening Remarks

Paper Presentations: Social Robotics and Interaction

• Vizij: Supporting the design, animation, and deployment of rendered robot faces – Saad Elbeleidy, Andrew Schoen, Chris Birmingham, Tiago Ribeiro, Victor Paléologue, Douglas Dooley, Ross Mead
• Birds of a Different Feather Flock Together: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Animal-Human-Machine Teaming – Myke C. Cohen, Xiaoyun Yin, David A. Grimm, Reuth Mirsky
• Language and Gesture in Virtual Reality: Is a Gesture Worth 1000 Words? – Padraig Higgins, Cory Hayes, Stephanie Lukin, Cynthia Matuszek
• Multi-Modal Perception and Behavior Adaptation Models for Human State Understanding and Interaction Improvement in Robotic Touch – Huy Quyen Ngo, Rana Soltani Zarrin

Community Presentations: Robot Hardware

Hardware presentations by members of the community, relevant to the community as a whole. Currently confirmed: Quori, Jibo, Ommie, & Hugo by Peerbots.

Announcements

Synthesis: Unifying Representations for Robot Applications

Synthesis of discussions from previous two days regarding: (1) representational cohesion; and (2) technical specifications for robot hardware platforms.