September 4th - Saturday

Location: Clermont-Ferrand University Campus

9:00 – SESSION I “Innovative Architectures for off-road mobile robots”
(some Keywords: modular and reconfigurable mechanics and middleware architectures…)

I.a: "Formal Cognitive approach for Autonomous capabilities management"
Keynote Speaker : Dr John Schueller – University of Florida, USA

I.b: "General architecture for intelligent agricultural vehicles
Francisco Rovira-Mâs, University Polytechnic of Valencia, Spain

I.c: "Open-wheel – A new architecture for clearance performance"
Jean-Christophe Fauroux – IFMA Clermont-Ferrand, France

I.d: RobulROC6 an experimental platform for a high mobility on challenging terrain
Faiz Ben Amar, Robosoft /ISIR, Paris, France

10:30 – Coffee Break

10:45 – SESSION II “Motion control for off-road mobile robots”
(some Keywords: sidings control, high speeds, cooperation of machines…)

II.a: "Control of robot under sliding conditions and high speed"
Keynote Speaker : Pr Philippe Martinet – LASMEA – Clermont-Ferrand - France

II.b: "Multi-robots formation in outdoors environment"
Roland Lenain, Cemagref, Clermont-Ferrand, France

II.c: "Robotic weeding of a maize field based on seeding data"
Tijmen Bakker, Tyker Technology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

II.d: "Autonomous Wheel Loader "Yamazumi-4""
Noriho Koyachi, AIST – National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

Cycab platooning demonstration - TIMS/LASMEA

13:00 – Lunch

14:00 – SESSION III “Environment perception and localization for off-road mobile robots”
(some Keywords: terrain recognition, cartography, SLAM, sensor fusion…)

III.a: "Rough natural environment perception for the control of off-road robot"
Keynote Speaker : Pr Karsten Berns,  Robotics Research lab,  University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

III.b: "Radar-based SLAM without odometric sensor"
Raphael Rouveure, Cemagref, Clermont-Ferrand, France

III.c: "Simple, yet reliable visual navigation system"
Tomas Krajnik, Department of Cybernetics, University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

III.d: " Smart Range finder and Camera fusion – Application to Real-Time Dense Digital Elevation Map estimation"
Christophe Debain, Cemagref, Clermont-Ferrand, France  

15:30 – Coffee Break

15:45 - SESSION IV “Safety and Reliability for off-road mobile robots”
(some Keywords: unknown obstacles avoidance, dynamic stability, precision & integrity, liability/Legislation…)

IV.a: "Making mobile robots safe and reliable"
Keynote Speaker : Pr Simon Blackmore, UniBots Ltd, England

IV.b: "CAN bus communication for sensor data acquisition and actuators control in safe and reactive navigation of a retrofitted commercial tractor"
David Martin-Gomez, CSIC, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain

IV.c: "Navigation of a robot using direct kinematics model based control"
Nicolas Morette, PRISME, University of Orleans, Bourges, France

IV.d: "Scalable autonomy to address man-Robot interaction in military robotics"
Joel Morillon, Thales OptroniqueSA, France,

17:00 – Thanks - End of Symposium