09:45-09:55 Isis Truck, Directeur du laboratoire de Cognitions Humaine et Artificielle (CHArt), Université Paris 8 Welcome to Cité des Sciences

09:55-10:10 Marco Borra, Scientific Attaché Italian Embassy in France French-Italian Research Collaboration

10:10-10:20 Andrea Cherubini, Université de Montpellier and GDR Robotique Mariagrazia Dotoli, Poitecnico di Bari and I-RIM Working Group on Robotics 4.0, Opening

10:20-11:00 Florent Lamiraux, LAAS CNRS Toulouse Motion planning in robotics: application to industrial tasks
In this talk, I will present the work we have been doing for the past five years in the framework of a joint lab with Airbus in order to apply our research developments to industrial case studies

11:00-11:40 Bruno Siciliano, Università di Napoli Federico II Robot Manipulation and Control
This talk presents research results @ PRISMA Lab on robot manipulation and control. The talk is organized in four parts. In the first part, control techniques for dynamic nonprehensile manipulation are presented. The second part of the talk focuses on how to merge learning and model-based strategies to provide autonomy to robot manipulation. In the third part, several aerial robotics applications for inspection and maintenance are surveyed. The final part of the talk deals with recent advances on shared control including haptic guidance.

11:40-12:20 Vincent Padois, INRIA Bordeaux Collaborative Robotics: Myths, Legends and Facts
Collaborative Robotics has raised a lot of expectations in the general public over the last decade. Yet, collaborative robots remain a limited reality outside research laboratories. This can be explained by a dissonance regarding the role robots could play in improving working conditions in factories in the long term and a dominant political vision centered on "boosting competitiveness and growth". It is also strongly related to opened scientific challenges among which the compromise between safety and performance is central. In this presentation, research works aiming at better quantifying robot and human capabilities and control strategies optimally using these capabilities will be presented. These works are thought as a step towards safe and performant collaborative robots.

12:20-13:00 Poster teasers

13:00-14:00 Lunch break and Poster Session

14:00-14:40 Marco Carricato, Università di Bologna Mobile collaborative robots for flexible manufacturing and logistics
Human-robot collaboration has become a key driver for manufacturing sustainability in Europe. Thanks to the many advantages that a fenceless, shared working environment offers, industry has recently grown a particular interest in collaborative robotics, thus sustaining the transition of this technology from academy to factories. In this speech, we present a number of robotic solutions integrating a serial manipulator and a mobile platform, both characterized by collaborative features, suitable for industrial applications where the ability of performing various operations in different locations of the shopfloor is crucial to achieve flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Examples may be feeding raw material to an automatic machine, palletizing/depalletizing, warehousing and logistic tasks. The goal is to provide an overview of such a complex system from different points of view, including hardware and software architecture, trajectory planning, computer-vision strategies and customized mechanical design.

14:40-15:20 Stéphane Caro, LS2N CNRS Nantes Cable-driven Parallel Robots: Design, Modeling, Control and Industrial Applications
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) form a particular class of parallel robots whose moving platform is connected to a fixed base frame by cables. The connection points between the cables and the base frame are referred to as exit points. The cables are coiled on motorized winches. Passive pulleys may guide the cables from the winches to the exit points. A central control system coordinates the motors actuating the winches. Thereby, the pose and the motion of the moving platform are controlled by modifying the cable lengths. CDPRs have several advantages such as a relatively low mass of moving parts, a potentially very large workspace due to size scalability, and reconfiguration capabilities. Therefore, they can be used in several applications, e.g. heavy payload handling and airplane painting, cargo handling, warehouse applications, large-scale assembly and handling operations, and fast pickand- place operations. Other possible applications include the broadcasting of sporting events, haptic devices, support structures for giant telescopes, and search and rescue deployable platforms. This keynote will deal with the design, modeling, workspace analysis and control of CDPRs. A focus will be put on the development of CDPRs in Nantes, France, and their potential industrial applications.

15:20-15:40 Coffee Break

15:40-16:20 Luca Carbonari, Università Politecnica delle Marche Collision avoidance strategies for human-centred manufacturing
The last decade witnessed an unprecedented spread of robotics. The production paradigm of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 yielded collaborative robots in production lines of all sizes. Also, the robots started leaving the industrial scenario to play a leading role in the field of personal assistance. These environments share a common challenge, i.e. the safety of people working and/or living around the robots. Collision avoidance control techniques are essential to improve such aspect, by preventing impacts that can occur between the robot and humans or objects. This talk aims to outline the main developments in robotics focusing particularly on human-robot synergy, a hallmark of today’s technological transformation brought by Industry 4.0, and even more strengthened by the novel Industry 5.0 paradigm, namely the introduction of resilient, sustainable and, above all, human-centric production systems. Such vision enables future workers to handle manufacturing complexity by complementing and enhancing their capabilities and skills instead of replacing them. The pursuit of aims in collaboration among labourers and robots will yield improvements in efficiency, as long as their collaboration can take place while respecting standards and regulations for the safety of people and the robustness of production systems.

16:20-17:00 Calogero Oddo, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa Tactile sensors for collaborative robotics

The talk will discuss selected case studies of technologies developed for endowing robots and wearables with artificial tactile sensors distributed over large areasand to deliver tactile feedback: from bionic limb prostheses up to the metaverse. In the presented scientific approach, robotic systems are developed by capitalizing on a fertile interaction between robotics and neuroscience, so that the advancements of neuroscientific research can lead to the development of more effective technologies, which in turn contribute to the fundamental understanding of physiological processes. A first case study proposed is with piezoresistive MEMS sensors, applied to bionic hand prostheses to restore rich tactile skills, such as texture discrimination in upper limb amputees. The developed biorobotic technologies and artificial intelligence methods, based on information encoding with neuromorphic spikes emulating physiological tactile representation, can be applied to a variety of sensory augmentation scenarios. Additional technologies were explored to cover large areas of robot or human bodies, including sensors based on cultured biological cells such as MDCK, piezoelectric ZnO nanowires grown with seedless hydrothermal method, and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs). Selected achievements are shown in the talk, discussing the application of tactile sensing technologies in a gripper able to manipulate fragile and deformable objects in collaboration with NASA-JPL, enabled by combining FEM and machine learning, or for sensorizing the full area of an anthropomorphic robotic arm featured on the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence. Particularly, endowing robotic arms with large sensorized skins allows the implementation of smart collaborative policies, such as safe interaction and programming by demonstration, that can be deployed in the factories of the future.

17:00-17:15  Salvatore Anzalone, Université Paris 8, Closing

The workshop will take place in Cinéma Painlevé Bibliothèque des Sciences et de l'Industrie, étage -2 at the Cité des Sciences, in Paris.