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INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS ROBOTICS 2015 Robotics for Future Presidents
Programme guide
Content Table of Contents
International Masterclass Robotics..........................................................4. Tuesday October 13th.....................................................................................5. Wednesday October 14th..............................................................................5. Thursday October 15th..................................................................................8. Participants.....................................................................................................12. Speakers............................................................................................................13. Contact...............................................................................................................15.
International Masterclass Robotics Developments in the field of robotics come faster than ever before. Researchers and entrepreneurs are working on ‘The Next Generation Robotics’ right now. Are you -as pioneering entrepreneur and/or executive manager- wondering how robotics will impact your business? The International Masterclass Robotics 2015 will update you on the recent developments in the field of robotics, opportunities for your business, and the expectations for the future. The emphasis will be on the impact of robotics on our society and industry in the coming decades. Do you want to challenge the disruptive changes and opportunities in our society and industry? During this masterclass we invite you to act and think as ‘Future Presidents’ and share your thoughts and visions with our experts. Be part of the creation of ‘The Next Generation Robotics’ together with the other participating robotic minds!
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Tuesday 13 October 2015 20.00 Opening Drinks During this informal opening of the International Masterclass Robotics, you will have the opportunity to get to know the other participants and speakers. There will be a light meal and/or snack.
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Wednesday 14 October 2015 08.00 Breakfast and Kick-off Arthur de Crook, programme manager for the International Masterclass Robotics, will briefly introduce the idea and concept of this first masterclass. Following Arthur de Crook, Martijn Wisse, as co-founder of the International Masterclass Robotics, will provide an overview of the programme.
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09.00 Lecture 01 – Industrial Robots Industrial robots have been around for 60 years and their ability to function in fixed factory environments is well known. Strong developments are ongoing to enable these robots to collaborate with people to perform quickly changing tasks, while intelligently dealing with variations in products and environment. In the programme on industrial robots, we will present an overview of the new enabling technologies, including 3D vision, (supervised) learning, inherently safe robots, and the Robot Operating System (ROS). These revolutionary developments together with the immense computing power that is becoming available, will bring robot solutions to previously uncharted terrain such as food handling, short-batch production and assembly, and collaborative robot-human work. We will highlight the resulting changes for the industrial users, including changing labour and education requirements, new and different investment requirements, and a changing view on risk, reliability, safety, and liability. The programme is concluded with an outlook into the future where productive robots take the same route as the PC: robots becoming so easy to install and operate that no specialised knowledge is required. Speakers 09.00 – 10.30 Martijn Wisse / Daniel Wäppling 10.30 – 11.00 Short Break 11.00 – 12.00 Martijn Wisse / Daniel Wäppling
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Lunch Break
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Lecture 02 – Mobile Assisting Robots
Mobile assisting robots are robots that can move around and are used to provide all kinds of assistance; from searching for victims in hazardous circumstances to lifting people in hospitals; from robots to help autistic children reach out to robots in outerspace assisting astronauts; and, of course, robots that you can step into to take you to your destination: the self-driving cars. In the programme about mobile assisting robots we give a short overview of the variance in such robots, we present indepth the research and achievements in self-driving cars, and we present the key elements of the co-active design method for assisting robots. In that revolutionary method we have shifted the emphasis from autonomously to designing the robot with all the necessary sensors and actuators that enable the humans working with the robot to perform work in
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close collaboration. We show the effect of robots, and robots equipped with emotional modules, on the behaviour of children and to what extend state-of-the-art robots can serve as tutors. We conclude this track of the programme with an overview of open challenges in this field. Speakers 13.00 – 13.45 Catholijn Jonker / Mark Neerincx 13.45 – 14.00 Short Break 14.00 – 15.00 Maarten Sierhuis 15.00 – 15.30 Short Break 15.30 – 16.30 Dariu Gavrila 16.30 – 17.00 André Schiele
17.00 Break Feel free to have a chat at the bar, do your daily exercises in the gym, or have a relaxing break in the sauna, your room or anywhere else.
19.00 Expert Dinner An exclusive expert dinner, themed ‘meeting robotic minds’. Apart from the speakers and participants, TU Delft Robotics Institute’s associated researchers, deans and professors will attend this expert dinner. Before and after the main course, Pieter Jonker will elaborate on a short but powerful case in the crossing fields of healthcare, autonomous systems and valorisation of knowledge (technology transfer).
22.00 Late-night Drinks For those who need a nightcap, or wish to extend a chat after dinner, be welcome to join us at the bar for a late-night drink. Note: the gym and the sauna are open until 23.00.
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Thursday 15 October 2015 08.00 Breakfast and Recap Martijn Wisse will provide you with a recap of the topics and discussions of day one, and give you a preface of the programme today.
09.00 Lecture 03 – Autonomous Robots, Swarming, and Emergent Behaviour Autonomous robots are capable of performing tasks by themselves, without tight human control. Examples include service robots, drones, self-driving cars, space exploration robots, etc. Typically, humans only give a high-level command, such as clean this room, or drive the car to a particular destination, and the robot then performs this task either fully autonomously or with a very limited human intervention. Autonomous robots must be endowed with at least a minimum set of sensors and the associated decision-making algorithms, so that they can monitor the status of their own hardware, navigate around the world, respond to changes in the environment and monitor the state of the task execution. In addition, proper interfaces are necessary for effective human-robot interaction.
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Current research in the area of autonomous robots focuses on additional functionalities that are not yet present in already developed autonomous robots, but are highly desirable and will bring autonomous robots to the next level of machine intelligence. They include learning techniques, enabling the robot to improve its performance on the task, either autonomously or through proper interaction with humans. Other desired features include fault detection and fault tolerant control algorithms, allowing the robots to carry out the task under partial failures of their hardware, software or communication channels. This is especially important for remote operations or in swarms where a failure of one individual could potentially jeopardise the task execution by the whole swarm. We will start the lecture with a short overview of autonomous robots, their applications and a typical architecture of such robots. The morning programme will then first address autonomous learning, with the focus on powerful, stateof-the-art ‘deep learning’ methods. We will continue with swarm robotics, an area concerned with constructing and controlling swarms of autonomous robots that co-operate to perform tasks that go beyond the capabilities of a single robot. The afternoon programme addresses the impact of autonomous robots on our society. This technology is just emerging and we need to quickly adapt to the changes the technology is bringing about. We will cover issues such as ethical dilemmas we may face when robots are fully autonomous, or endowed with a very high degree of autonomy, responsibility, liability, etc.
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Speakers 09.00 – 09.30 Robert Babuska 09.30 – 10.30 Jürgen Schmidhuber 10.30 – 11.00 Short Break 11.00 – 11.30 Guido de Croon 11.30 – 12.30 Marco Dorigo
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Lecture 04 – Responsible Robotics
When robots are fully autonomous, or endowed with a very high degree of autonomy, we may face a number of moral dilemmas. These dilemmas, and questions concerning ‘meaningful human control’ and responsibility for design, production and deployment of robots with high levels of autonomy, will be discussed during this lecture. Topics and issues to be addressed: autonomous vehicles, military systems (that have given rise to heated debates), robot-human collaboration, the nature of hybrid teams, and the apportioning of responsibility and agency in contexts related to robotics. At the end, the idea and concept of Responsible Innovation in robotics – ‘Responsible Robotics’ – and the principles of Value Sensitive Design, developed at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), will be introduced and thoroughly outlined. Speakers 13.30 – 14.00 Jeroen van den Hoven 14.00 – 15.00 Jeff Bradshaw 15.00 – 15.30 Short Break 15.30 – 16.30 Mark Alfano / Filippo Santoni De Sio
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Lecture 05 – Technology Transfer
During this masterclass we addressed technological developments in de field of robotics, and emphasised on the impact on industry and society. We shared forecasts, insights, and discussed ethical issues. But what about technology transfer? How do we stimulate the valorisation of research and education? And what are the lessons learned and the key factors of success in the process of valorisation of knowledge? Paul Althuis, and his colleagues from TU Delft Valorisation Centre, will provide you with their vision and their experi-
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ence-based concept of tech-transfer. One of the elements in this successful formula is the ‘Triple Helix Collaboration’ between knowledge institutes, governments and business enterprises. ‘RoboValley’, as the embodiment of this vision, will be of great importance in fulfilling the desire and the need for an effective and efficient transfer of technology to industry and society. Speakers 17.00 – 17.15 Paul Althuis 17.15 – 18:00 Anouschka Versleijen 18:00 – 18:30 Arie van den Ende 18:30 – 19:00 Paul Althuis / Robert Babuska / Martijn Wisse
19.00 Closing Dinner During the closing dinner from 19.00 until 20.00 Robert Babuska and Martijn Wisse, as representatives of the TU Delft Robotics Institute management team, will personally hand out the newly printed TU Delft Robotics Institute position paper ‘Creating the next-generation robots’, guided by an invitation to join the follow-up dinner on April 12, 2016.
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Participants Accenture
Senior Manager Management Consulting Financial Services Digital Operations
Akzo Nobel
Technology Coordinator
Akzo Nobel
Global Head of Digital & eCommerce
Bennie Mols
Science Journalist, Author, and Speaker
Festo BV
Manager Customer Solutions
Heemskerk Innovative Technology (HIT) Managing Director
Innovation Quarter
Business Developer Smart Industry
Océ Technologies B.V.
Manager Device Development 1-2
Phaer bvba Director
Philips
Innovation Manager Precision Diagnostics and Interventional Care
Philips
Head of IT Global Services
Shell
Team Leader ‘Frontier Automation’
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Speakers Dr. Mark Alfano
Associate Professor Ethics/Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft
Drs. Paul Althuis
Director of TU Delft Valorisation Centre
Prof. dr. Robert Babuska
Professor of Intelligent Control and Robotics at TU Delft, Scientific Director of TU Delft Robotics Institute
Dr. Jeffrey Bradshaw
Research Scientist at IHMC (Pensacola, USA)
Ir. Arthur de Crook
Business Developer Robotics at TU Delft Valorisation Centre
Dr. Guido de Croon
Assistant Professor at the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory of TU Delft
Prof. Marco Dorigo
Director of Research at FNRS (Brussels, Belgium)
Arie van den Ende
Business Developer Robotics at TU Delft Valorisation Centre
Prof. dr. Dariu Gavrila
Professor of Intelligent Perception Systems at University of Amsterdam, Principal Scientist at Daimler R&D
Prof. dr. Jeroen van den Hoven Professor of Ethics at TU Delft
Prof. dr. Catholijn Jonker
Professor of Interactive Intelligence at TU Delft
Prof. dr. ir. Pieter Jonker
Professor of Vision-Based Robotics at TU Delft
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Prof. dr. Mark Neerincx
Professor of Human-Centred Computing at TU Delft, Principal Scientist of Perceptual and Cognitive Systems at TNO
Dr. Filippo Santoni De Sio
Associate Professor Ethics/Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft
Dr. ing. André Schiele
Associate Professor Telerobotics & Advanced Mechatronics at TU Delft, Head of ESA Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory
Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber
Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University of Lugano and at SUPSI (Manno-Lugano, Switzerland)
Maarten Sierhuis, Ph.D.
Director of Nissan Research Center Silicon Valley at Nissan North America, Founder and CTO of Ejenta (San-Fransisco, USA)
Ir. Anouschka Versleijen
Programme Manager QuTech Advanced Research Center for Quantum Technologies at TU Delft and TNO, Programme Manager Valorisation Centre / Strategic Development at TU Delft
Daniel Wäppling, M.Sc., Tech.lic.
Head of Product Architecture at ABB Robotics (Vasteras, Sweden)
Prof. dr. ir. Martijn Wisse
Professor of Biorobotics at TU Delft, Associate Director Research TU Delft Robotics Institute
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Contact The International Masterclass Robotics is presented by TU Delft Robotics Institute Mijnbouwstraat 120 2628 RX Delft, The Netherlands +31 (0)15 765 1616 www.robotics.tudelft.nl
hosted by WestCord Hotel Delft Olof Palmestraat 2 2616 LM Delft, The Netherlands +31 (0)15 888 9010 www.westcordhotels.nl/hotels/Hotel-Delft
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