IIT Kanpur Presents

A 2 Day Workshop On

Next Level Innovation In Robotics And Autonomy

9th - 10th December 2018

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10 Research Scholars and 25 Faculty members will be admitted to the Workshop free of cost

ABOUT WORKSHOP

Robotics and AI have grown in parallel while complementing each other. This workshop at IITK on Robotics and autonomy would focus on naturalization of human intelligence making robots mimic humans in complex tasks such as warehouse automation, precision agriculture, and assisted living. Sensor based robotics such as manipulators, mobile manipulators, land rovers and drones are being integrated with innovative AI modules to make them smart and user friendly. Industry 4.0 also will be driven by two basic technologies: AI and robotics - and especially the combination of both - allowing robots to learn skills and tasks without explicitly programming them. Learning and optimizing complex and interactive robot manipulation skills through reinforcement learning algorithms is a multifaceted challenge and an unsolved problem. With the goals of (i) significantly reducing robot programming costs and (ii) reducing robot cycle times, transfer learning, reinforcement learning algorithms and other customized AI based algorithms will be covered in this workshop.

Some of the example topics are as follows:

  • Computational Intelligence Based Warehouse Automation from sorting, packaging to air-delivery.
    • Reinforcement learning based motor skill learning to achieve higher kinematic control
    • Deep network based visual perception for objects used in warehouse with scalability
    • Reinforcement learning based visual grasping
    • Human Robot Interaction
    • CI driven condition based monitoring systems
  • Coordination control of multi-robot systems involving heterogeneous platforms – drones, land rovers and mobile manipulators.
    • Event triggered control of robotic systems in cyber physical framework using adaptive critic framework
    • Customized robotic platforms for agricultural harvesting.
    • Drone based identification of disease spread in agriculture crops
    • Reliable Image and Video transmission for drone based wireless communication
    • Brain wave controlled smart wheel chair

Researchers will brainstorm in this workshop about the next level of innovation in Robotics and Autonomy in the context of academic and professional collaboration between India and UK. The workshop will consist of key note and invited talks, panel discussions and poster sessions.

POSTER PRESENTATION

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An important feature of this workshop is to allow participants to showcase their talents in Robotics and Autonomy in the form of a poster. Students, faculty members and industrial professionls are invited to submit short abstracts of their research works. Please note that your work must pertain to the development of innovative robotics applications in terms of hardware, sodftware or both that will have significant societal impacts. Partcipants whose abstracts are selected will be invited to present their works in the form of posters as well as experimental demonstration.

BENEFITS:

  • Prize money of Rs 10000/-, 8000/- and 6000/- top 3 posters and demo presentation
  • Participation certificate to all the participants
  • Expert advice and feedbacks on the research work presented

SUBMIT

Speakar

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Dr. Madan Gopal

Professor (Rtd.)

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi

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Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

Professor

System and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay

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Debasish Ghose

Professor

Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore

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Bharadwaj Amrutur

Professor

Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore

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T.Asokan

Professor

Dept. of of Engineering Design, IIT Mardas

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Dr. Sumantra Dutta Roy

Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi

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Dr. I N Kar

Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi

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Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani

Professor

Missouri University Of Science And Technology, Rolla

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Dr. Indranil Saha

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, IIT Kanpur

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Dr. M. Felix Orlando

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee

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Dr. Abhishek

Associate Professor

Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur

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Dr. Nishchal Verma

Associate Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

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Dr. Soumya Ranjan Sahoo

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

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Dr. Ashish Dutta

Professor

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

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Dr. M. Santhakumar

Associate Professor

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore

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Dr. Laxmidhar Behera

Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

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Dr. Sethu Vijayakumar

Professor

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Dr. Amit Shukla

Researcher

Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi

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WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Student

Rs. 1500/-

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Faculty

Rs. 3000/-

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Industry Personnel

Rs. 4000/-

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Details for the payment will be sent to you via E-mail post submitting a registration

Special Offer

10 Research Scholars and 25 Faculty members will be admitted to the Workshop free of cost

Schedule

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Sl. No. Time Slot Speaker Talk Description
9:00-9:15 -- Inauguration
1 9:15-10:05 Dr. Madan Gopal Machine Learning: The Brain for technology that rules the world
2 10:30-11:15 Dr. Sethu Vijaykumar Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics
3 11:15-12:00 Dr. Debashish Ghose Autonomous UAV Swarms
4 12:00-12:45 Dr. T. Asokan Autonomy for Field and Service Robots: Design Challenges and Developmental Issues
5 12:45-1:30 Dr. Ashish Dutta Assist as required control of a robotic wearable hand exoskeleton for neuro-rehabilitation of stroke patients

Lunch Break

6 2:30-3:20 Dr. Santha Kumar Applications of robust and adaptive control schemes on mobile manipulators: An overview
7 3:20-4:10 Dr. Sumantra Dutta Roy Bin-Emptying Revisited: Object Recognition, Pose Estimation and Manipulation
8 4:10-4:50 Dr Bijnan Bandyapadhyay Continuous Integral Sliding Mode control and Implementation of Super Twisting Control
9 4:50-5:30 Dr. Nishchal K. Verma Automated Inventory Management using Machine Vision: Recognition, Counting, and Replenishment
10 5:30-6:30 Panel Discussion UK-India Collaboration in Robotics, Convenor Sethu Vijaykumar
11 6:30-7:30 Poster Presentation and Prize Distribution Judge Panel: Dr. M Gopal, Dr. J Sarangaphani, Dr. Sethu Vijayakumar
7:45

Banquet Dinner

10 Dec 2018 Monday

12 8:30-9:10 Felix Orlando Development of a Smart Active Needle for Minimal Invasive Surgery
13 9:10-10:55 Dr. J Sarangapani Intermittent Hybrid Reinforcement Learning and its Application to Optimal Adaptive Control
14 10:15-11:00 Dr. Bharadwaj Amrutur A learning based approach to extract gaits for a quadruped
15 11:00-11:45 Dr IN Kar Robust Event‐Triggered Control as an Optimal Control Problem
16 11:45-12:15 Dr SR Sahoo Nonlinear formation control strategies for agents without relative measurements under heterogeneous networks
17 12:15-12:45 Dr Amit Shukla External non-contact multi-agent intelligent condition monitoring system for buried oil and gas pipelines
18 12:45-13:15 Dr. Abhishek Autonomous Autorotation for Fail-safe Aerial Robot
19 13:15-13:45 Dr L Behera Building a Conscious Machine: Challenges and Future Perspectives

CONTACT US

For quries regarding the workshop and/or poster presentation, you can write to us at: shortcourse.lb@gmail.com Or get in touch witgh any student or faculty coordinators.

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