Program

 

Session 1 – Robotic Locomotion, Gait Planning, and Terrain Adaptation

15th April 2025, 11:00-13:00

Paper ID	Paper Title	Author Names
8	A Passive Recursive Newton Euler Algorithm and Its Application to Inverse Dynamics under Passivity-based Controller	Jonghyeok Kim (POSTECH); Youngjin Choi (Hanyang University); Jonghoon Park (Neuromeka Co., Ltd.); Wan Kyun Chung (POSTECH, Korea)
17	Deep reinforcement learning of robotic manipulation for whip targeting	Xiang Bai, Junyi Wang (Technical University of Denmark); Xiaofeng Xiong (University of Southern Denmark); Evangelos Boukas (Technical University of Denmark)
18	Environment-Adaptive Gait Planning through Reinforcement Learning for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons	Edoardo Trombin, Francesco Crisci, Luca Tonin, Emanuele Menegatti,  Stefano Tortora (University of Padova)
21	TERA: A Simulation Environment for Terrain Excavation Robot Autonomy	Christo Aluckal (University at Buffalo); Karthik Dantu (SUNY Buffalo)
31	Acquisition and Evaluation of Walking and Wheel Movement for a Transformable Quadruped Wheelchair Using Reinforcement Learning	Atsuki Akamisaka, Katashi Nagao (Nagoya University)
35	Enhancing Agricultural Sustainability Through Robotic-IoT Systems for Real-Time Monitoring Soil Contamination	Najla M. Alharbi, Aljuhara Alshagri (King Abdulaziz City for science and technology)

 

Session 2a – Planning, Trajectory Generation, and Mission Strategies

15th April 2025, 14:00-16:00

1	Autonomous drilling and deburring processing planning method of multi-robot systems	Tianyi Zhang (Dalian University of Technology)*
4	Comparative Analysis of Local Trajectory Planning Algorithms in ROS2	Asan Adamanov, Seifalla Mohamed Elbouhy, Philipp Maximilian Braun,  Hendrik Wilhelm Rose (Hamburg University of Technology)
10	Augmented Costmap-Based Path Planning and Control for Multi-Mobile Robot Rigid Formation	Stefano Mutti (SUPSI-DTI); Roberto Fausti (STIIMA-CNR); Nicola Pedrocchi (STIIMA-CNR); Anna Valente (SUPSI)
11	Efficient Greedy Unsupervised Learning of Multivariate Mixture Models with Moment-Based Splitting	Nicola Greggio, Alexandre Bernardino (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
15	Deep Reinforcement Learning for Next Best View Planning in Autonomous Robot-Based 3D Reconstruction	Hossein Omid Beiki (Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University)*; Bijan Kavousian (Werkzeugmaschinenlabor WZL der RWTH Aachen); Manuel Belke (Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University); Oliver Petrovic (Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University); Christian Brecher (Rheinisch-Westflische Technische Hochschule Aachen)
24	Bio-Inspired Home Localization Using Event-Based Vision and Spiking Neural Networks in Simulated Environment	Rizwana Kausar, Fakhreddine Zayer, Vidya Sudevan, Jaime Viegas, Jorge Dias (Khalifa University)

 

Session 3 – Simulation Integration, Calibration, and Model-based Approaches

15th April 2025, 16:30-18:30

2	An interactive approach to extrinsically calibrate 3D LiDAR and monocular camera using open source toolchain	Abdul Haq Azeem Paracha, Christoph Brückner, Lucila Patino Studencki, Georg Arbeiter (Hochschule Coburg)
6	Reducing the Sim2Real gap for vacuum grasping in Isaac Sim	Isabella Soraruf, Marco Todescato, Dominik Matt, Andrea Giusti (Fraunhofer Italia)
7	MuJoCo ROS: Integrating ROS with the MuJoCo Engine for Accurate and Scalable Robotic Simulation	David Leins, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter (Bielefeld University)
12	Model-based Verification and Monitoring for Safe and Responsive Robots	Stefano Bernagozzi, Sofia Faraci (Italian Institute of Technology); Enrico Ghiorzi, Karim Pedemonte ((University of  Genoa); ); Angelo Ferrando (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia); Lorenzo Natale (Italian Institute of Technology); Armando Tacchella (University of Genoa)
20	Trajectory Prediction in Upper-Limb Robotic Rehabilitation and its Applicability to Post-Stroke Patients: A Preliminary Analysis	Adriano Scibilia, Nicola Pedrocchi, Marco Caimmi (CNR-STIIMA)
30	An Open-sourced Digital Twin Model of an Industrial Dryer	Dominik Pastuszka Malek, Xiaofeng Xiong (University of Southern Denmark)
42	Intelligent Inspection with Autonomous Robots: Challenges, Advances and Future Research	Erfu Yang (University of Strathclyde)

 

Session 4 – Human-Centric and Social Robotics

16th April 2025, 11:00-13:00

3	Robot to Human Interaction with multi-modal conversational engagement	Giuseppe De Simone, Luca Greco, Alessia Saggese, Mario Vento (University of Salerno, Italy)
5	Image Data Augmentation through Generative Adversarial Networks for Waste Sorting	Alberto Bacchin, Fabio Marangoni (University of Padova); Alberto Gottardi (IT+Robotics srl, University of Padova)*; Emanuele Menegatti (University of Padova)
13	A.I. at the Edge of the Edge: Intelligent Sensor Falling Detection for Humanoid Robot	Giuseppe Messina (STMicroelectronics )*; Yuri Filistad, Corrado Santoro (University of Catania)
14	Projecting Dancing Movements From Human Onto Robot Arm by Weighted Multipoint Mapping	Giuseppe Saviano (University of Pisa); Alberto Villani (University of Siena)*; Domenico Prattichizzo (University of Siena)
34	Practical Reasoning with Attention Mechanisms	Massimo Cossentino, Giovanni Pilato, Guido Averna (CNR – National Research Council of Italy, ICAR); Myrto Mylopoulos (Carleton University); John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto)
37	Towards Trustworthy and Explainable Socially Assistive Robots: A Cognitive Architecture for Dietary Guidance	Luigi D’Arco, Luca Raggioli (University of Naples Federico II); Gianni Randazzo (University of Palermo); Giovanni De Gasperis (University of L’Aquila); Antonio Chella (University of Palermo); Stefania Costantini (University of L’Aquila); Silvia Rossi (University of Naples Federico II)

 

Session 2b – Planning, Trajectory Generation, and Mission Strategies

17th April 2025, 11:00-13:00

16	Real-time Underwater Place Recognition in Synthetic and Real Environments using Multibeam Sonar and Learning-based Descriptors	Daniel Fusaro, Simone Mosco, Wanmeng Li, Alberto Pretto (University of Padova)
23	Processing Continuous-Valued Signals for Multimodal Spike-Based Pose Regression	Vidya Sudevan, Fakhreddine Zayer, Rizwana Kausar, Sajid Javed, Hamad Karki (Khalifa University); Giulia De Masi (Sorbonne University); Jorge Dias (Khalifa University)
27	Maritime Mission Planning for Unmanned Surface Vessel using Large Language Model	Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Ahsan B Bakht, Yihao Dong, Irfan Hussain (Khalifa University UAE)
28	DANCERS: A Physics and Network Co-Simulator for Communicating Multi-Robot Systems	Theotime Balaguer, Olivier Simonin (INSA Lyon); Isabelle Guérin Lassous (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1); Isabelle Fantoni (Nantes Université)
36	Boosting Behavior Tree Generation for Robots with Large Language Models and Genetic Programming	Aaron Verdaguer-Gonzalez (Eurecat)*; Nestor Garcia (Eurecat); Magi Dalmau-Moreno (Eurecat); Luis Merino (Unicersidad Pablo de Olavide)
40	The Foundation for Developing an Exoskeleton for the Rehabilitation of Temporomandibular Disorders	Paul-Otto Müller, Oskar von Stryk (Technical University of Darmstadt)
41	Future-Proof Adaptive Path Correction in Automated Fibre Placement: A Concept Demonstration	Stig McArthur (University of Strathclyde)*; Carmelo Mineo (CNR – National Research Council of Italy, ICAR); Alastair Poole, Iain Bomphray  Jörn Mehnen (University of Strathclyde)