International Workshop on Underactuated Grasping

August 19, 2010

Montréal, Canada

Immediately after the ASME IDETC2010

http://www.polymtl.ca/labrobot/workshop2010/

About the workshop

The need for safe and simple grasping solutions is becoming increasingly urgent. Industrial mechanization is exploring unstructured environments such as food industry, and robotics are approaching humans such as in rehabilitation. This workshop intends to bring together the world leaders in safe and simple grasping technologies, in particular in underactuated grasping to discuss promising research directions and strategies to meet the upcoming challenges.

Interactive sessions and hardware demonstrations of grasping devices designed and developed by the attendees are going to make this workshop lively and in-depth.

Workshop objectives

1. Overview of the state of the art in the field of underactuated grasping
2. Share lessons learnt
3. Identify road blocks for the industrial application of underactuated robotic hands
4. Identify open issues in the theoretical framework and define new collaborative research questions

Call for papers

We solicit papers (4-8 pages) on the following categories:

1. Papers discussing lessons learnt from the analysis, synthesis and application of underactuated hands
2. Papers discussing new hypotheses, ideas or concepts for new research directions
3. Papers on grasp performance definition, calculation and measurement
4. Papers on modeling or simulation of underactuated grasping
5. Any other topic matching the objectives of this workshop

Instructions to send the papers (*.pdf) will be posted on the workshop website respecting the final submission dates, The ASME/ IDETC format will be used. All papers are subject to a thorough peer review process. Proceedings will be openly accessible after the workshop. The workshop is intended to be free of charge. Registration will however be mandatory.

Important Dates:

Oct 2009          Call for papers

Feb 2010         Submission of papers

Apr 2010          Decision on papers

May 2010         Submission of revised papers

June 2010        Submission of other material (posters, videos)

Aug 2010         Workshop

Workshop Organizers:

Lionel Birglen

École Polytechnique, Montréal

Lionel.Birglen@polymtl.ca

Gert A. Kragten

Delft University of Technology

G.A.Kragten@tudelft.nl

Scientific/ Program Committee:

Samuel Bouchard, Canada

Marco Ceccarelli, Italy

Richard Crowder, UK

Jian Dai, UK

Michael Goldfarb, USA

Clement Gosselin, Canada

Just Herder, The Netherlands

Shigeo Hirose, Japan

Sebastien Krut, France

Vijay Kumar, USA

Thierry Laliberté, Canada

Gabriele Vassura, Italy

Ian Walker, USA

Rich Walker, UK

Wen-zeng Zhang, China

Matteo Zoppi, Italy