Listed as No. 2 in the most downloaded articles in 2017 for Robotics and Control from Springer

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Our article "Survey on Computer Vision for UAVs: Current Developments and Trends" has been listed as No.2 in the 10 Most Downloaded Articles of Springer in the area of Robotics and Control in 2017. Article Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-017-0483-z

Full Story here: http://www.springer.com/gp/marketing/highlights-2017/robotics-2017?wt_mc=E-Mail.Newsletter.10.CON741.PhysSciHighlights17_Rob&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=physscihighlights17_rob&utm_campaign=10_hbo2290_physscihighlights17_rob&sap-outbound-id=0D8D32BE91BB13F7A45D0A0768EBEEA70D6EB9BB

Automining 2018 - Technical Program Committee

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Automining 2018 is organized to provide an international forum to meet and discuss recent innovations and developments in control, automation and robotic systems applied in mining and metallurgical operations to reduce costs and increase productivity and safety of operations. The previous version of the Congress was presided by Luis Sánchez, Operations Vice-President, Minera Centinela, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile. The Program had 32 technical presentations, 6 plenary presentations, and 1 discussion panel. More than 140 professionals from 9 countries attended the Congress and among them, 54 were professionals from mining companies.

https://gecamin.com/automining/index.php#home

SIMS - Greening the Economy HORIZON 2020 proposal has been granted.

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I am leading the WP on robotics in mining in the newly granted project SIMS - Sustainable Intelligent Mining System, funded by the HORIZON 2020 program H2020-SC5-2016. 

The SIMS project aspires to create a long lasting impact on the way we test and demonstrate new technology and solutions for the mining industry. With a selected consortium ranging from mining companies, equipment and system suppliers to top-class universities, the SIMS project will boost development and innovation through joint activities aiming at creating a sustainable intelligent mining system, test and demonstrate new innovative technologies within the designated consortium, consisting of well developed mining operations, selected due to their maturity regarding innovative technologies, world-leading equipment and system suppliers, highly specialised SMEs and top-class universities.  

Track Chair for the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives

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Track Chair for the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives, which will be held in Tinos, Greece, 29-1 September 2017. The topic of the Session is “Tools for diagnostics I: Signal analysis based techniques”

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IPC Committee at the 2017 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

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The Mediterranean Control Association and the Organising Committee of the 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in MED 2017 to be held on the 3-6 July 2017 in Valletta, Malta. The conference will include tutorials and workshops, a technical program of presentations, and keynote lectures covering a wide range of topics on systems, automation, robotics and control including theory, hardware, software, communication technologies and applications. MED 2017 offers a great opportunity for academics, researchers and industrial players working in control and automation to socialise and network together, present their research progress and address new challenges in the field. MED 2017 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

 

Special Track at the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'16)

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Co-organizing a special track at the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, at Las Vegas, Nevada in December 12-14, 2016. The session is entitled "Advancing Autonomy for Aerial Robotics" and more information can be found here:

Scope Aerial robots are currently at the forefront of robotic research and have managed to raise great interest within our societies. Market estimates predict a –wider than ever expected– vast integration of such technologies in a variety of commercial and professional applications. Enabling factors for this trend are the miniaturization and great cost reduction of the enabling technologies, in combination with the dazzling progress in the fields of modeling and aerodynamics, pioneering mechanical design, avionics, advanced motion control, machine learning, sensing and estimation, computer vision, path planning, decision–making and autonomous behaviors, distributed, networked and multi–agent systems, as well as human–robot interaction. Within this special track, we aim to investigate and discuss what is still missing towards achieving advanced navigational and operational autonomy for aerial robots. Towards a productive event, we welcome papers from all the relevant scientific fields and disciplines, solid contributions or promising preliminary results that break new ground and try to advance, robustify and increase the reliability of aerial robots. Furthermore, we invite application–oriented papers that present new methods and solutions towards the goal of integrating aerial robotics as a new class of intelligent agents able to support our collective societal needs.

AEROWORKS @ IROS 2016 with a Special Session on "Towards the realization of the Aerial Robotic Workers"

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Aim and Scope

Infrastructure is the foundation that connects our resources, energy flows, business, communities and people, driving our economy and improving our quality of life. For the global economies in order to retain and strengthen their competitiveness, a new class of advanced tools and methods is required. This special session focuses on this need and aims to provide aerial robotic infrastructure inspection and maintenance solutions as a next­generation methodology and tool to improve infrastructure services.

More specifically, the aim of this innovative special session is to contribute to the discussions on the state of the art and the future trends towards the concept of “Collaborative Aerial Robotic Workers” that envisions a team of collaborative aerial systems equipped with advanced environmental perception and 3D reconstruction, active aerial manipulation, intelligent task planning, and multi­agent collaboration capabilities. Such a team of Aerial Robotic Workers will be capable of autonomously inspecting infrastructure facilities and acting in order to execute a maintenance task by means of aerial manipulation and exploiting multi­robot collaboration.

The proposal of this special session is aiming in highlighting the early state of the art scientific contributions from the Horizon 2020 AEROWORKS project, which is leading the aerial robotic developments in Europe, while integrating significant contributions from other scientific teams working in the same area and other collaborative projects, while exchanging success stories and enabling an international collaboration under this thematic umbrella.

List of main topics

This special session aims at attracting state of the art articles in order to investigate the underlined emerging scientific challenges of decentralized multi­robot collaboration, path­ planning, control for aerial collaborative manipulation, aerial manipulator design, autonomous localization, as well as, cooperative environmental perception and reconstruction. Topics of interest include, without being limited to.

Special Session on "Fault Detection, Fault Diagnosis and Fault tolerant control of real life systems" @MED 2016

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In recent years a plethora of methods have been proposed for the problem of Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) of electro-mechanical systems, employing state
of the art approaches from the fields of signal processing, artificial intelligence and
modeling, with remarkable results. In parallel to these FDD approaches, Fault-
Tolerant Control (FTC) is also emerging as a significant approach after the FDD in
order to ensure that the system will work, even under the presence of faults. 
However most of these approaches have been only tested within laboratory
settings under fully controlled experimental protocols. Therefore, their actual merit is
yet to be proven within industrial settings and in more realistic conditions while
considering, apart from the presence of noise, the computational and space limitations of an industrial environment. 

This special session intends to attract research papers that can demonstrate
the effectiveness of proposed FDD and FTC methods under real life scenarios, thus
bridging the gap between theory and practice, while bringing closer academics with
people working in the industry.

Special Session Proposers

Prof. Mohamed Benbouzid
University of Brest
Brest, France
mohamed.benbouzid@univ-brest.fr

Dr. George Georgoulas
Luleå University of Technology
Luleå, Sweden
georgios.georgoulas@ltu.se

Prof. George Nikolakopoulos
Luleå University of Technology
Luleå, Sweden
geonik@ltu.se

Special Session on "Aerial Manipulators’ Design and Control" @MED 2016

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We are organizing a special sesson on Aerial Manipulators Design and Control at the 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation.

http://med2016.org/

Aerial manipulators are a new class of mobile robots characterized by a high degree of mobility and dexterity, due to their capability to fly and perform manipulation operation airborne. However, the intrinsic floating base nature of aerial manipulators give origin to problems that prevent from exploiting the full capabilities of aerial manipulators when deployed in real life applications. Among the major problems, the lack of proper disturbance rejection for the attitude of the aerial manipulator represents the bottleneck for a realistic future deployment of such technology. Unlike fixed base manipulators, when aerial manipulators are subject to external disturbances (interaction force, unpredictable wind gusts), but also when the manipulator simply performs internal motion of its joints, both the attitude and the position control of the aerial manipulator can be destabilized, leading to extreme undesired consequences for the aerial platform. This effect clearly indicates that a classical approach to both the design and the control of the aerial manipulator is not sufficient, in order to fully exploit the capabilities of an aerial manipulator.

This special session aims at attracting state of the art articles on innovative aerial manipulator’s design, from concept to testing and their control in operations involving physical interaction airborne. 

Special Session Proposers

Assistant Prof Matteo Fumagalli
(matteo@m-tech.aau.dk)
Robotics, Vision and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering,
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. George Nikolakopoulos
(geonik@ltu.se)
Robotics Group
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.

Prof. Stefano Stramigioli
(s.stramigioli@utwente.nl)
Robotics And Mechatronics,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Matematics and Computer Science
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands