ROS-Industrial Conference 2018

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 11:00 AM 11:00
Thursday, December 13, 2018 4:00 PM 16:00

Key points:

location: SI Centrum, Stuttgart, Germany
dates: December 11, 12:30 to December 13, 16:00
registration link (~~first 100 seats and until Nov 9: 600 EUR |~~ from Nov 10 until Dec 4: 900 EUR, 50% discount on these rates for ROS-I consortium members and students: use "RIC" and "student" as discount code. 50 EUR late registration extra fee from Dec 5)
catering provided on-site for all listed meals and breaks
info on anything not addressed here: ric.eu@rosindustrial.org

final version: PDF

Over three days the program will cover:

ROS support from hardware OEMs, such as ABB, Denso, Ensenso, Pilz, Roboception, Universal Robots, and others
how robotics and IT are converging, in methods and business models: deployment and update workflows, cloud, etc
ROS software development measures and tools to guarantee its quality, such as static code analysis, and newly released packages from commercial organizations
applications such as aerospace, automotive, logistics
current EU ROS activities and how to get involved in them

Thanks to the generous help of ROS-Industrial Consortium APAC member Tony Robotics, we will have live streaming of event.

Watch the talks and read the blog posts of

13:30 Introduction to the ROS-Industrial Conference - Mirko Bordignon, Fraunhofer IPA (slides/video)
13:40 [Welcome talk] Robotics impacts Industry and Society: What are the Numbers and Trends - Martin Haegele, Fraunhofer IPA (slides/video)

Session 1: EU ROS Updates

14:10 ROSIN: Advancing ROS in Europe - Carlos Hernandez Corbato, TU Delft (slides/video)

15:10 Experiences and Outcomes of ROS Developments - ROSIN FTP performers (a) Nobleo Projects (slides/video), (b) Roboception (slides/video), (c) Pilz (slides/video) and (d) PPM Robotics AS (slides/video)
16:10 Training and Education Activities - Stephan Kallweit, FH Aachen and Jonathan Hechtbauer, Fraunhofer IPA (slides/video)

17:00 Quality Assurance Initiatives and Tool Development for ROS - by Adam Alami & Zhoulai Fu, IT University of Copenhagen (slides/video)

Further Opportunities for Public funding

17:40 RobMoSys, Composable Models and Software for Robotics Systems - Dennis Stampfer, HS Ulm (slides/video)

18:05 SeRoNet, the Service Robotics Network - Bjoern Kahl, Fraunhofer IPA (slides/video)

Session 2: Software and System Integration Topics

09:00 [Session Keynote] Open-Source Robotics for Fun & Profit - Dave Coleman, PickNik Consulting and MoveIt! (slides/video)
09:40 System Integration and Modularity in Robotics using ROS - Victor Mayoral Vilches, Acutronic Robotics (slides/video)
10:10 Ease-of-Use Packages between ROS and ABB Robots - Jon Tjerngren, ABB (slides/video)

11:00 ROS on Embedded Devices - Recent Developments - Ingo Luetkebohle, Robert Bosch (slides/video)
11:30 ROS Software Quality Assessment through Static Code Analysis and Property-Based Testing - Andre Santos, INESC TEC and University of Minho (slides/video)
11:55 Official ROS support: making the most out of the new UR e-Series - Anders Billesoe Beck, Universal Robots (slides/video)

Session 3: Robotics meets IT

13:45 A modular Deployment Platform for ROS modules, including Automotive Components - Milad Geravand, Bosch Engineering (slides/video)
14:15 Robotics in a Hostile World: Security, Automated Maintenance and Upgrades - Eric Jensen, Canonical (Ubuntu) (slides/video)
14:45 AWS RoboMaker - Easily develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications - Roger Barga, Amazon (slides/video)

15:45 dockeROS: Simply Running ROS Nodes in Docker Containers on Remote Robots - Christian Henkel, Fraunhofer IPA (slides/video)
16:00 [Session Keynote] Robotics and Automation in the Age of the API Economy - Henrik Christensen, UC San Diego and ROBO Global (no slides/no video)
16:40 Google’s Cloud Robotics: helping industries make use of intelligent and collaborative automation - Damon Kohler, Google (no slides/video)
17:00 Panel Discussion - Moderator: Martin Haegele, Fraunhofer IPA ; Panelists: Henrik Christensen (UC San Diego), Oliver Goetz (SAP), Michael Grupp (magazino), Niels Jul Jacobsen (MiR), Damon Kohler (Google)(no slides/video)

17:30 Transportation to Fraunhofer IPA for the evening program: demos and exhibits, including robotic blending with Scan-n-Plan, Cloud Navigation, drag&bot; dinner refreshments

Session 4: Hardware and Application Highlights

09:00 RIC Americas Highlights and Advanced Robotics for Agile Aerospace Applications - Paul Evans, Southwest Research Institute / ROS-Industrial North America (slides/video)
09:30 ROS on Industrial AGVs: Perception-Driven Load Handling and PLC Interfaces - Karsten Bohlmann, E&K Automation (no slides/no video)
10:00 Cobotta - a ROS-Enabled Collaborative Robot by Denso - Arun Damodaran, DENSO Robotics Europe (slides/video)

10:20 Coffee break
10:50 Cloud Navigation: deployment examples - Felipe Garcia Lopez, Fraunhofer IPA (slides/video)
11:10 [Session Keynote] Flexible Automotive Assembly with Industrial Co-workers - Fabian Fuerst, Opel, and Georg Heppner, FZI (slides/video)
11:50 Pilz Service Robotics Modules - ROS for Service Tasks in Industry - Thomas Pilz, Pilz (slides/video)

12:20 Lunch
13:30 The Eclipse Foundation and its Robotics Activities - Gaël Blondelle, Eclipse Foundation (slides/no video)
14:00 ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe 2019 Outlook - Mirko Bordignon and Thilo Zimmermann, Fraunhofer IPA

Early bird rate: 600 EUR (until November 09, 2018, and only for the first 100 registration seats)
Regular rate: 900 EUR Members of the ROS-Industrial Consortia (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific) are eligible for a 50% discount (please indicate in the "Discount code" box of the registration form which ROS-I Consortium you are member of).
This conference is organized by Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. You will be forwarded to www.ipa.fraunhofer.de for registration. Please register via this online form.