On the 2nd of June, a workshop on Disaster Response Robots: Design Principles and Control for Effective Mobility and Manipulation was held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Singapore .
Nikos Tsagarakis (Organizer), Department of Advanced Robotics, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova.
The workshop was organized by N. Tsagarakis, P. Ogren, P. Jensfelt, S. Behnke, representing the EU projects Walkman, TRADR, and Centauro. These projects were presented in invited talks.
Cesar Cadena, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich.
In addition there were 9 presentations that covered a wide range of topics from different labs and a projects across the world. Lively discussions took place between the presentations.
The attendees got a good overview of the state of the art of Disaster Response Robotics.
