IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter Conference (RAS2023) -- Intelligent Robotics: Current Developments and Future Trends
RAS2023 has been successfully held at the University of Salford on 28 Feb 2023.
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- University of Salford
- Manchester, England
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- Building: SEE building
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Prof John Gray, john.gray2@btinternet.com
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- Starts 28 January 2023 10:58 PM UTC
- Ends 28 February 2023 08:00 AM UTC
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Speakers
Prof Darwin Caldwell of Italy Institute of Technology
How Can Robotics and Wearable Technology Improve Healthcare?
Prof Darwin Caldwell will address how to use robotics and wearable technologies to achieve sustainable health provision, focusing on their excellent research at IIT:
- surgical assistive and intervention technologies: the world’s first 5G Telesurgery procedure, enhanced throat surgery using our CALM system, Smart Probes for detection and characterization of tissue type including malignancy of the throat, pediatric interventions including neurosurgery and Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), Smart Cannulisation (CathBot and CathBot Pro), Magnetically driven Fibre Optic Lasers for endoscopic surgery, and Endoscopic Tissue Analysis,
- prevention of work related injuries. Musculo-skeletal disorders (MSD) are injuries to muscles, bones, joints, tendons, ligaments, nerves, discs, blood vessels, etc. He will introduce the XoSoft, XoTrunk, XoShoulder and XoElbow exoskeletons and demonstrate their use in real world applications.
Biography:
Prof. Darwin Caldwell is Founding Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, where he is also the Director of the Dept. of Advanced Robotics. Caldwell pioneered the development of core technologies in compliant actuation, Soft and Human Friendly Robotics and the creation of ‘softer’, safer robots, drawing on developments in materials, mechanisms, sensing, actuation and software. These developments have been fundamental to applications in humanoids, quadrupeds and medical robotics.
Prof. Caldwell is or has been an Honorary professor at the University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, King’s College London, and the University of Bangor in the UK, and Tianjin University and SAAT in China. He has published over 600 papers, and has received over 50 awards/nominations at international conferences and events. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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Prof Carsten Maple of WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Trustworthy AI for Autonomous Systems
Prof Carsten Maple addresses Trustworthy AI with respect to the Safety, Security, Resilience, and Reliability of Autonomous Systems.
Biography:
Professor Carsten Maple is Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Warwick, charged with leading the strategy in North America. He is also the Principal Investigator of the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at the University and Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering in WMG. He is a co-investigator of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity where he leads on Transport & Mobility. Carsten has an international research reputation and extensive experience of institutional strategy development and interacting with external agencies. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and is co-author of the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010, supported by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Police Central e-crime Unit. Carsten is also co-author of Cyberstalking in the UK, a report supported by the Crown Prosecution Service and Network for Surviving Stalking. His research has attracted millions of pounds in funding and has been widely reported through the media. He has given evidence to government committees on issues of anonymity and child safety online. Additionally he has advised executive and non-executive directors of public sector organisations and multibillion pound private organisations.
Professor Maple is Immediate Past Chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in the UK, a member of the Zenzic Strategic Advisory Board, a member of the IoTSF Executive Steering Board, an executive committee member of the EPSRC RAS Network and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee, the ENISA CarSEC expert group, the Interpol Car Cybercrime Expert group and Europol European Cyber Crime Centre.
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Address:WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, CV4 7AL
Agenda
Intelligent Robotics: Current Developments and Future Trends
The 6th Annual IEEE UK and Ireland RAS Chapter Conference
HOST: University of Salford
General Chairs:
Dr Denise Rennie, Deputy Dean of SSEE, University of Salford
Prof John Gray (JG), RAS Chapter Chair, University of Manchester
Programme Chair:
Prof Mary He (MH), University of Salford, h.he5@salford.ac.uk
Programme Co-Chairs:
Dr Chris Hughes (CH), University of Salford
Dr Theo Theodoridis (TT), University of Salford
Poster Session Chair:
Dr Guowu Wei (GW), University of Salford
Date: 28 Feb. 2023 (Tuesday)
Address:
Room SB2.11, SB2.12 SEE Building, Crescent, Salford M5 4NT
Register Link: ras2023.Eventbrite.co.uk
Agenda (Morning):
8:30am – 9:00am Registration (with refreshment)
9:00am – 9:10am Conference starting by Dr Chris Hughes, Research Director of SSEE
9:10am – 9:30am Welcome from
Prof John Gray (JG) – Chair of IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter
Prof Hongmei He (HH) – New Chair of IEEE & Ireland RAS Chapter
9:30am – 10:15am Keynote Speech: Prof Darwin Caldwell, IIT in Italy (Confirmed)
Topic: How Can Robotics and Wearable Technology Improve Healthcare?
Chair: Prof John Gray
10:15am - 11:00am Morning coffee break
Session 1: RAS for Extreme and Hazard Environments (SB2.11)
Chair: Simon Watson
11:00am - 11:15 Prof Kaspar Althoefer (Queen Mary University of London)
Topic: Robotic solutions for nuclear waste decommissioning: QMUL's Advances in the framework of the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR)
11:15am - 11:30 Dr Simon Watson (University of Manchester)
Topic: Robotics for Nuclear Inspections
11:30am - 11:45 Dr Maurice Fallon (University of Oxford),
Topic: Learning to navigation in complex natural environments
11:45am - 12:00 Michael James - EPSRC UKRI, Robotics Portfolio Manager
Session 2: RAS for Social and Health Care (SB2.12)
Chair: Prof Sanja Dogramadzi, University of Sheffield
11:00am - 11:15 Prof. Alessandro Di Nuovo, Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University,
Topic: Multimodal intelligent robotics for social care.
11:15am - 11:30 Dr Dave Cameron, Information School, University of Sheffield
Topic: Imagining Robotic Care - conflict and confluence in stakeholders' imaginaries
11:30am - 11:45 Prof. Praminda Caleb-Solly, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
Topic: Trialling Telepresence Robots in Extra Care and Cultural Settings in the UK – Social, Logistic and Technical Challenges and Opportunities
11:45am - 12:00 Prof. Sanja Dogramadzi, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield
Topic: Modelling from real dressing data for uncertainty estimation in variable environmental conditions
Agenda (Afternoon)
12:00 - 12:30 group photo (participants, all chairs and committee)
Chairs: Dr Chris Hughes and Dr Theo Theodoridis
12：30 – 14:00 Lunch, Poster Session, Robotics Lab Touring
Chairs: Bethan Gill (Lunch),
Dr Guowu Wei (Poster Competition),
Dr Saber Mahboubi Heydarabad (Lab Turing)
14:00 - 14:45 Keynote speech 2: Prof Carsten Maple, University of Warwick
Topic: Evaluation and Characterization of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Prof Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London
14:45- 15:30 afternoon coffee break
Session 3: RAS for Digital Manufacturing (SB2.11)
Chair: Professor Niels Lohse, Loughborough University
15:30 - 15:45 Professor Niels Lohse
15:45 - 16:00 Mike Wilson, MTC, Chief Automation Officer
Topic: Robotics activities at the Manufacturing Technology Centre
16:00 - 16:15 Rich Walker, CEO of Shadow Robotics
Session 4: Resilient Robots and Autonomous Systems (SB2.12)
Chair: Prof Carsten Maple, University of Warwick
15:30 - 15:45 Prof Jonathan Loo, University of West London (remote)
Topic: Protecting industrial robotic systems from cyber-physical attacks
15:45 - 16:00 Dr Thoe Theodoridis, Salford University
Topic: Research activities in the Centre for Autonomous Systems and Advanced Robotics.
16:00 - 16:15 Jonathan Lodge, CEO of City Farm Ltd.
16:15 - 16:30 Prof Hongmei He, Salford University
Topic: Human-centred AI for trustwthy robotics and autonomous systems
16:30 - 17:00 Announcement of poster competition
Dr. Guowu Wei, Prof Mary He, Prof John Gray
17:00-17:30 Close and announce the host of next RAS conference.
Prof John Gray and Prof Hongmei He