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GMAR Robotics School 2021
- Organization
- Schedule

GMAR Robotics School 2021

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Organization

Date: tentatively 2021-08-23 - 2021-08-27 (Monday-Friday)
Location: Villa Blanka; Innsbruck
Topic: Mobile Manipulation

Audience:

advanced Master and young doctoral students in subject areas related to robotics (engineering, computer science, etc.)
15-25? participants, depending on the location
prerequisite: familiarity with ROS, to be specified; recommend tutorials

Concept:

hands-on, making things work on real robots
technical lectures concentrated near the beginning of the week
hacking starting day one, growing in importance as the course advances
hacking in small teams dedicated to specific functionalities
some application talks towards the end, not relevant to the hacking

Implementation Goal:

SLAM, autonomous navigation
vision-based grasping of (known and/or unknown?) objects from known locations
placing objects in designated locations
execution of high-level plans involving the above capabilities

Robots:

1 mobile base + arm platform for each group of 3-4 students
or, 1 UIBK mobile manipulator (homebrew base with DOBOT M1 ? Franka Emika Panda)
or, TUW Honda mobile manipulator

Schedule

Each session lasts 90 minutes; blank = hacking.

Sessions	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Morning I (8-10)	Mechatronics of mobile manipulators (Peter Manzl and Martin Siegfried Sereinig)	Robot Vision (Jean-Baptiste Weibel)	Visual Servoing (Antonio Paolillo)	Industry event + Robotics talks event in Alpbach. Departure at 8.30am, return 15.30pm. Breaks and lunch schedule may vary	Task Planning (Gerald Steinbauer)
Coffee break
Morning II (10.30 - 12.30)	Kinematics (Andreas Müller)	Picking and Placing (Justus Piater)	Hacking: Visual Servoing for Pick and Place		Hacking: Task Planning
Lunch
Afternoon I (13.30-15.30)	Dynamics, Control (Wolfgang Werth)	Human-Robot Interaction and Safety Aspects (Mathias Brandstötter)	Introduction to ROS Navigation Stack (Matteo Saveriano)		Hacking: Team competition
Coffee break
Afternoon II (16.00-18.00)	Hacking: Set-up the robots	Hacking: Path/Motion Planning in ROS	Hacking: Navigation in ROS
Dinner	on site	on site	on site	in town	-

* confirmed