Program

Monday – October 1, 2018 (AM)

09:00– 09:15 Welcome, Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas — IIT, Italy
 Title: “Introduction to the Workshop” [slides]

09:15 – 09:45 Dr. Shuuji Kajita — AIST, Japan.
[Drs. Rafael Cisneros, Mehdi Benallegue, Takeshi Sakaguchi, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Shin’ichiro Nakaoka,,Hiroshi Kaminaga, Iori Kumagai, Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro]
Title: “Airbag System Developments for Humanoid Falling” [slides]

09:45 – 10:15 Prof. Amy Laviers — Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Title: “Human Fall Strategies: The Bartenieff Principle of Weight Shift From the Pelvic Core and Its Role in Producing an Expressive Bipedal Walker” [slides]

10:15 – 10:45 Dr. Abderrahmane Kheddar — CNRS & CNRS-AIST, France.
Title:”Humanoid Falls with Active Postural Reshaping and Adaptive Compliance” [slides]

10:45 – 11:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
4 Posters with Spotlight Talks

  • Junhyung Kim , Jaehoon Sim, and Jaeheung Park
    Title: “Humanoid fall recovery strategy using air thrust [poster, paper]
  • Noel Maalouf, Imad H. Elhajj, Elie Shammas, and Daniel Asmar
    Title: “Imitating Humans: Stable Humanoid Gait Design Based on Energy Exchange” [poster, paper]
  • H. Jafari, M. Pauelsen, U. Röijezon, L. Nyberg, G. Nikolakopoulos and T. Gustafsson
    Title: “On Internal Modeling of the Upright Postural Control in Elderly” [poster, paper]
  • Juan A. Castano, Chengxu Zhou, and Nikos G. Tsagarakis
    Title: “Heuristic Fall Recovery Strategy for a Wheel-Legged Quadruped Robot” [poster]

11:30 – 12:00 Dr. Yohei Kakiuchi (Prof. Masayuki Inaba) — JSK, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
Title: ”Humanoid Robot Design with Robustness for Falling Down” [slides]

12:00 – 12:30 Dr. Jinoh Lee — IIT, Italy.
Title: “Rolling! Energy Control Concepts for Humanoid Falls.” [slides]

12:30 – 13:00 Dr. Libo Meng (Profs. Z. Yu, Q. Huang) — Beijing Inst. of Tech., China.
Title: “Humanoid Falling Study on BHR-6P” [slides]

13:00 – 13:30 Prof. Sven Behnke — Univ. of Bonn, Germany.
Title: “Push Recovery, Fall Survival, and Getting-up of NimbRo Humanoid Soccer Robots” [slides]

13:30 – 14:00 Closing Remarks