at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain on 5 October 2018
This workshop brought together and encouraged collaboration between communities interested in soft robotics, reconfigurable mechanisms, human-computer interaction, haptics and beyond. Live demonstrations were shown!
Our workshop had >50% invited female speakers! #ResearchExcellence
The event was supported by
Springboard award of the Academy of Medical Sciences (grant number: SBF003\1109)
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Shape-changing robotic structures and shape-changing interfaces (as known in the Human-Computer Interaction community) are transforming systems that physically change shape exploiting 21st century robotics, including soft robotics, reconfigurable mechanisms, but also hinges on research areas such as modelling, control and material science. The design and fabrication process makes use of elements found in the field of reconfigurable mechanisms or soft material robotics or in a combination of both. Change in physical geometry can add new capabilities to these systems making them ideal for application in areas such as healthcare, production, homecare, autonomous vehicles and for interfaces with computers and machines.
Discussions at the seminar will be based around three key themes: (1) The technologies involved in shape-change, including soft, modular and reconfigurable robotics, smart materials, and actuation systems; (2) the design of shape-changing systems, including their key application areas, and their industrial and interaction design; and (3) current and future application areas. We will explore the synergies that will arise from bringing together soft and reconfigurable robotics and identify the advantages that these shape-changing robotic structures and interfaces bring to different areas of application. We believe that the true power of shape changing systems can be magnified many-fold by bringing together those different fields of science. Through coordination of research, we can reach further and faster resulting in an acceleration of research.
09:00 – 09:15: Welcome Message, Dr Anne Roudaut and Dr Helge Wurdemann
09:15 – 09:35: Shape-changing interfaces in HCI, Dr Anne Roudaut
09:35 – 09:55: Frontiers of soft robotic structures, Prof. Kaspar Althoefer
09:55 – 10:15: Reconfigurable robotics, Prof. Jamie Paik’s researcher
10:15 – 11:00: Q/A and panel discussion with Profs Althoefer, Paik and Dr Roudaunt
Morning coffee break
11.30 – 11.45: Shape change in growing soft robots, Prof. Allison M. Okamura
11.45 – 12.00: M-Blocks Modular Robotics, Prof. Daniela Rus
12.00 – 12.40: Submitted contribution I: Teasers for live demos/posters
- Aluna Everitt, Laser-Cut and 3D Printed Semi-Solid Surfaces as a Fabrication Technique for Developing Shape-Changing Displays
- Hyunyoung Kim, Céline Coutrix, Anne Roudaut, KnobSlider: A Shape-Changing Interface for Parameter Control
- Zachary M. Hammond, Nathan S. Usevitch, Elliot W. Hawkes, and Sean Follmer, Variable Stiffness Linear Actuator Robot
- S.M.Hadi Sadati, S. Elnaz Naghibi, K. Althoefer, T. Nanayakkara, Toward a Low Hysteresis Helical Scale Jamming Interface inspired by Teleost Fish Scale Morphology and Arrangement
- Marwa A.ElDiwiny, How To Design Your Polymer Artificial Muscle Actuator/ Sensor
- Woong-Bae Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, Soft Robotic Origami Structures: Highly Deformable and Configurable Soft Robots
- Tyler Rhodes and Vishesh Vikas, Planar Shape Changing Compliant Tensegrity Mechanisms with Multi-Stable Equilibria
- Audrey Sedal, Daniel Bruder, Shape Design of Soft Systems Using Scalable Patterned Reinforcements
- Qiukai Qi, Van Anh Ho, Variable Afferent Network Morphology (VANmorph): An Implementation on Sensorized Soft Body
- Yiheng Zhu, Jonathan Rossiter, Helmut Hauser, Towards Robotic Morphosis
12.40 – 13.30: Interactive session
Lunch break
14.30 – 14.45: Artificial robotic “skin” made of hundreds of small hexagonal cells, Prof. Gordon Cheng
14.45 – 15.00: Soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery, Prof. Arianna Menciassi
15.00 – 15.15: Human-machine Interaction for autonomous vehicles, Dr Bani Anvari
15.15 – 15.40: Submitted contribution II: Teasers for live demos/posters
- S. Kanjanapas, C. M. Nunez, S.R. Williams, A.M. Okamura, M. Luo, Design and Analysis of a Pneumatic 2-DoF Soft Haptic Device for Shear Display
- E. Judd, H. Hauser, and J. Rossiter, Sensing Through the Body
- Dae-Young Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho, Stiffening of Transformable Structure via Structural Locking
- Massimo Vespignani, Jeffrey M. Friesen, and Jonathan E. Bruce, SUPERball v2: A Deformable Tensegrity Rover for Planetary Exploration
- Jianglong Guo, Chaoqun Xiang, and Jonathan Rossiter, Self-sensing shape changing structures for active and soft manipulation and robotics applications
- Sang-Min Baek, Kyu-Jin Cho, Deployable Glider Module for Multimodal Robots
15.40 – 16.30: Round table discussions
Organisers
Dr Anne Roudaut
University of Bristol, UK
Email: roudauta@gmail.com
Dr Helge Wurdemann
University College London, UK
Email: h.wurdemann@ucl.ac.uk
Prof. Sanja Dogramadzi
Bristol Robotics Lab, University of the West of England, UK
Email: Sanja.Dogramadzi@uwe.ac.uk
Prof. Jamie Paik
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: jamie.paik@epfl.ch
Prof. Lining Yao
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Email: liningy@cs.cmu.edu
Prof. Audrey Girouard
Carleton University, Ontario, Canada
Email: Audrey.Girouard@carleton.ca
Dr Ali Alazmani
University of Leeds, UK
Email: A.Alazmani@leeds.ac.uk
Prof. Kaspar Althoefer
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Email: k.althoefer@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Pete Culmer
University of Leeds, UK
Email: P.R.Culmer@leeds.ac.uk
Prof. Sean Follmer
Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Email: sfollmer@stanford.edu
Dr Van Ho
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan
Email: van-ho@jaist.ac.jp
Professor Jonathan Rossiter
University of Bristol, UK
Email: jonathan.rossiter@bristol.ac.uk
Prof. Helge Wurdemann 