HFR 2018 - 11th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics
Scope
The 11th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2018) will be organized on November 13-14, 2018, at Shenzhen, China.
The growing need to automate daily tasks, combined with new robot technologies, is driving the development of human-friendly robots, i.e., safe and dependable machines, operating in the close vicinity to humans or directly interacting with them in a wide range of domains. The technological shift from classical industrial robots, which are safely kept away from humans in cages, to robots, which are used in close collaboration with humans, is facing major challenges that need to be overcome.
The objective of the workshop is to create a focused single-track workshop and bring together researchers so to share knowledge on design, control, safety and ethical issues, concerning the introduction of robots into everyday life. For the first time the workshop is organized outside Europe, it also targets at creating a bridge between the continents for communicating human friendly robotic technologies.
Topics of Interest
Fundamentals of Human-Friendly Robots
- Mechatronic Design
- Control Methods for Safe and Adaptive Interaction
- Interaction-based Robot Design
- Telerobotic Systems
- Methods for Physical and Cognitive Human-robot Interaction
- Multimodal Human-robot Communication
- Human Monitoring and Intention Recognition
- Cognitive Modeling
- Adaptive Interfaces
- Cooperative Task Execution and Sliding Autonomy
- Learning by Demonstration
- Human Factors
- Benchmarking and Performance Analysis
- Social and Ethical Issues
Applications of Human-Friendly Robots
- Medical and Rehabilitation Devices
- Prostheses and Orthoses
- Robot Assisted Therapy
- Personal and Entertainment Robots
- Collaborative Robots
- Social Robots
- Human-Robot Internation in Hazardous Environments
Important Deadlines
15 August 2018 - Submission Due
15 September 2018 - Notification of Acceptance
27 October 2018 - Early Registration Deadline
13-14 November 2018- HFR Workshop
For more information, go to http://hfr2018.org/
Technical co-Sponsorship by IEEE RAS