PCFP 2013 - Workshop on Progress, Challenges and Future Perspectives in Navigation and Manipulation Assistance for Robotic Wheelchairs
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Category PCFP 2013
Deadline: August 10, 2012 | Date: January 08, 2013-January 10, 2013
Venue/Country: Algarve, Portugal
Updated: 2012-06-19 22:51:13 (GMT+9)
Call For Papers - CFP
Research on robotic wheelchairs has been performed for over 20 years now, yet no commercially available system is currently available on the market. However, the increasing use of sensors and navigation assistance in the automotive market is likely to eliminate earlier bottlenecks for commercial robotic wheelchairs. Furthermore, with the advent of novel and powerful sensors, with the development of novel planning and statistical algorithms, and due to the ever increasing speed and memory of nowadays computers, research in this field is still very active today.This workshop fits well in the IROS 2012 theme of robots for quality of life, and in the theme "robotic adaptation to humans adapting to robots" of the FP7 project RADHAR that co-organises this workshop (www.radhar.eu). The workshop will present recent developments, current bottlenecks and future directions in the field of navigation and manipulation assistance for robotic wheelchair users. More specifically, the workshop welcomes papers on novel human-machine interfaces, approaches and design guidelines for navigation and manipulation shared control, benchmarking and evaluation of such assistive approaches by end users, and modelling and prediction techniques of dynamic environments.Intended audienceIn the first place, we want to bring together researchers working on shared control navigation or manipulation algorithms for robotic wheelchairs. This also includes related topics such as human-machine interfacing, driver modelling, intention estimation, and estimation and prediction of the driver’s dynamic surroundings. The presented topics will also be of interest for researchers working on navigation assistance for other vehicles such as cars, agricultural vehicles or forklift trucks.The secondary audience includes physiotherapists, wheelchair users and industry representatives who want to steer future research toward real-world challenges and who want to find out about and use the latest results in the field of robotic navigation or manipulation assistance.ObjectivesThe workshop aims to address the following questions:How to make shared control systems intuitive and trustworthy?How to evaluate and compare shared control systems? What are good benchmark tests?What are the bottlenecks to bring shared control systems to the market?List of topicsTopics of the workshop will include:Navigation and manipulation assistance algorithms, i.e. shared control for robotic wheelchairs: approaches, design guidelines, evaluation and comparisonDriver modelling and adaptation: prediction of driver signals, stress detection, estimation of focus-of-attentionIntention estimation or plan recognitionNovel human-machine interfaces: haptic joystick, brain-computer interface, voice control, eye trackingModelling of dynamic obstacles’ motion and socially-compliant motion planningEnvironment modelling: object recognition, traversability estimation, estimation of surface characteristicsBringing assistive robots to the market: legal and ethical issues, key enablers and major roadblocksUser tests and benchmark experimentsSurvey papers.Keywords: Accepted papers list. Acceptance Rate. EI Compendex. Engineering Index. ISTP index. ISI index. Impact Factor.
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