Program

All times are Philadelphia times (UTC -4h00)

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Room 120C

8h45–9h00: Welcome and introduction

9h00–10h00: Keynote Session (Chair: M. Carricato)
Clément Gosselin, "Parallel robots, a historical perspective: from tyre testing to physical human-robot interaction"

10h00–10h45: Coffee break & Poster session 1

10h45–11h45: Invited talk Session 1(Chair: S. Briot)

• Christian Duriez, "Modeling and control of continuum and soft parallel robots"
• Marco Carricato and Edoardo Idà, "Underactuated Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: opportunities and challenges"

11h45–12h40:Session “My work in 5 minutes”(Chair: S. Lilge)

• "Architecture Singularity Distance Computations for Linear Pentapods" (Aditya Kapilavai, Georg Nawratil)
• "Compliance and Admittance Based Hybrid Control Strategy for Collaborative Cable-Driven Parallel Robots" (Marceau Métillon, Tahir Rasheed, Camilo Charron, Kévin Subrin, Stéphane Caro)
• "Design optimization of a parallel manipulator for otological surgery" (Durgesh Haribhau Salunkhe, Guillaume Michel, Elise Olivier, Shivesh Kumar, Marcello Sanguineti, Damien Chablat)
• "Dynamic Balancing of Four-Bar Linkages by Means of Structural Topology Optimization" (J. Emmanuel Ayala-Hernandez, Sébastien Briot, J. Jesus Cervantes-Sanchez)
• "Flatness-Based Control of Redundantly Actuated Parallel Manipulators with Serial Elastic Actuators" (Thomas Kordik, Hubert Gattringer, Andreas Müller)
• "Fault Tolerant Control of a Planar Kinematically Redundant Cable Driven Parallel Robot" (Adhiti Raman, Ian Walker, Venkat Krovi, Matthias Schmid)
• "Simulating the Manipulation of Flexible Bodies Through Drones" (Philipp T. Tempel, Frédéric Boyer, Sébastien Briot, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Abdelhamid Chriette)
• "Whole-Body Kinematics Modeling in presence of Closed-Linkages: application to the Kangaroo Biped Robot" (Enrico Mingo Hoffman, Sai Kishor Kothakota, Adria Roig Moreno, Andrea Curti, Narcis Miguel and Luca Marchionni)
• "Workspace Computation Algorithms for Continuum Parallel Robots: state-of-the-art and perspectives" (Federico Zaccaria, Edoardo Idà, Sébastien Briot and Marco Carricato)

12h40–14h00: Lunch

14h00–15h20: Selected-abstract session (Chairs: S. Briot / S. Lilge)

• 13h55–14h15: "Preliminary results on the use of AI in the mechanical design phase of parallel robots" (Jean-Pierre Merlet)
• 14h15–14h35: "ReachBot: A Small Robot with Parallel Extendable Booms for Mobile Manipulation" (Tony G. Chen, Stephanie Schneider, Marco Pavone, Mark R. Cutkosky)
  
• 14h35–14h55: "Derivation and Evaluation of a Kinetostatic Modeling Approach for Spatial Tendon Driven Parallel Continuum Robots" (Sven Lilge, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs)
  
• 14h55–15h15: "RotorTM: A Flexible Simulator for Aerial Transportation and Manipulation" (Guanrui Li, Xinyang Liu, and Giuseppe Loianno)

15h20–16h00: Coffee break & Poster session 2

16h00–17h30: Invited talk Session 2 (Chair: G. Loianno)

• 16h00–16h30: Aaron Dollar, "Parallel Mechanism Architectures Facilitate Dexterous Within-Hand Manipulation"
• 16h30–17h00: Alice M. Agogino, "Multi-Cable Rolling Locomotion with Compliant Parallel Tensegrity Robots"
• 17h00–17h30: Koushil Sreenath, "Dynamic and Collaborative Aerial Manipulation"

17h30–18h00: Round table (Chair: G. Loianno)

18h00–18h15: Award ceremony and conclusive words