IEEE/RSJ IROS WS - Building Safe Robots
A Holistic Integrated View on Safety
Workshop Program
This is the schedule for our workshop.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:15–09:30 | Opening (organizers) |
| Block 1 — Early Keynote + Lightning | |
| 09:25–10:00 | Invited Talk: Haojian Lu (Zhejiang University) — Humanoid robot safety (+ Q&A) |
| 10:00–10:25 | Lightning Cluster A |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| Block 2 — Keynotes: Core Safety Hardware and Control | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Invited Talk: Andrea Pupa (Unimore) — Human-Robot Collaboration Enhanced: Efficiency and Safety through Speed and Force Control |
| 11:30–12:00 | Invited Talk: Sven Parusel (Franka Robotics) — Safe and tactile robots |
| 12:00–12:10 | Joint discussion and Q&A |
| 12:10–12:35 | Lightning Cluster B |
| 12:35–13:30 | Lunch |
| Block 3 — Keynotes: Going beyond just physical | |
| 13:30–14:00 | Invited Talk: Marta Lagomarsino (Italian Institute of Technology - IIT) — Is Physical Safety All You Need? Towards Cognitive-grounded Safety and Ergonomics in Human-Robot Collaboration |
| 14:00–14:30 | Invited Talk: Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (Cornell) — Safety in Deploying Physical Caregiving Robots |
| 14:30–14:40 | Joint discussion and Q&A |
| 14:40–15:05 | Lightning Cluster C |
| 15:05–15:30 | Coffee break |
| Block 4 — Keynotes: From Lab to the Real-World | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Invited Talk: Robin Kirschner (Technical University of Munich - TUM) — Testing robot tactility |
| 16:00–16:30 | Invited Talk: Ivan Ruchkin (University of Florida - UF) — Reliable World Models: Physical Grounding & Safety Prediction |
| 16:30–16:40 | Joint discussion and Q&A |
| 16:40–17:05 | Lightning Cluster D |
| 17:05–17:30 | Round table & Best Lightning/Poster Winner announcement |
Accepted Papers
The following papers have been accepted for presentation in lightning sessions organized by clusters:
| Cluster | Paper |
|---|---|
| Cluster A | |
| Safe Impedance Control of Collaborative Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Corresponding Author: Mingzhi Sha - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
| Energy-Aware Admittance Control for Human-Robot Interaction Corresponding Author: Matteo Nini - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia | |
| Video-Based Learning from Demonstration for Safe and Personalized Robotic Rehabilitation Ali AL Abbas - Atlantic Technological University | |
| Cluster B | |
| A QP-based control framework for safe human-robot collaboration in real-world field environments Corresponding Author: Jozsef Palmieri - University of Cassino and Southern Lazio | |
| Viability-Preserving Passive Torque Control Corresponding Author: Zizhe Zhang - University of Pennsylvania | |
| Diffusion Model with Individual Control Barrier Functions for Safe Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Corresponding Author: Qingyun Guo - Aalto University | |
| Cluster C | |
| Subsystem Safety Filtering: A Unified Framework for Safe Shared Control in Coupled Robotic Systems Corresponding Author: Federico Pizarro Bejarano - University of Toronto | |
| Advancing Human-Robot Interaction Safety: A Multimodal Perception-Based Architecture for Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing Corresponding Author: Zhengjie Zhu - Zhejiang University | |
| Enhanced Probabilistic Collision Detection for Motion Planning Under Sensing Uncertainty Corresponding Author: Xiaoli Wang - National University of Singapore | |
| Cluster D | |
| Manipulation Facing Threats: Evaluating Physical Vulnerabilities in End-to-End Vision Language Action Models Corresponding Author: Hao Cheng - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| GeoCopilot: What Does Geometry Mean for Robots? Corresponding Author: Yuhe Gong - University of Nottingham | |
| Task-Priority Control of a Robotic Manipulator Exploiting Magnetic Sensing Corresponding Author: Federico Masiero - Technical University of Munich | |
