FZI Live
CLAWAR 2024
Walking Robots into Real World
CLAWAR 2024 is the 27th issue of the International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines. The conference will be organized in collaboration with the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology.
The CLAWAR 2024 aims to strengthen the scientific and personal exchange in the walking robotics community. Original contributions are invited in the area of climbing and walking robots as well as in general mobile robotics like flying and ground robots. The conference will cover analysis (modeling and simulation) techniques, design approaches, and practical application and realization of robotic systems. Support technologies for realizing such systems and associated economic, ethical and social considerations are integral to the conference theme.
Keynote and Plenary Talk Speakers
- Prof. Marco Hutter (ETH Zürich): "27 Years of Climbing and Walking Robots – Are we there?" (Wednesday, September 4, 1:50-2:50 p.m., Room LAURON)
- Benjamin Mottis (ANYbotics): "Creating a Workforce of Autonomous Robots" (Thursday, September 5, 9:00-9:30 a.m., Room LAURON)
- Prof. Alin Albu-Schäffer (DLR): "Torque Controlled or Intrinsically Compliant? DLR's perspective on robust and efficient biped and quadruped locomotion" (Thursday, September 5, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Room LAURON)
- Prof. Katja Mombaur (KIT): "Bipedal Locomotion in Humanoid Robots and Exoskeletons: from Benchmarking Frameworks to Efficient Controllers" (Friday, September 6, 9:00-9:30 a.m., Room LAURON)
- Navinda Kottege (CSIRO): "Two, Four, or Six? Legged Robots for Exploration and Inspection in the Real World" (Friday, September 6, 11:50-12:50 a.m., Room LAURON)
FZI participation in the program
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
9:50-10:10 a.m.
LAURON VP, a Six-Legged Walking Robot, with a new ROS 2-based Behavior Control
FZI Research Scientists Carsten Plasberg, Hendrik Nessau, Kantesh Sinha, Imama Hafeez and David Kubeneck, FZI Department Manager Georg Heppner and FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann
9:30-9:50 a.m.
Efficient Stream-Based Active Learning Initialization for Legged Robots based on a PCA/K-Means Image Selection Approach
FZI Research Scientists Niklas Spielbauer and David Oberacker, Andrey Tkachenko, Prof. Arne Roennau and FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann
Thursday, September 5, 2024
10:50-11:50 a.m.
- Towards 3D Path Planning for Free Climbing Robots
FZI Research Scientist Friedrich Graaf, FZI Department Managers Tristan Schnell and Georg Heppner, and FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann - LAURON VI: A Six-Legged Walking Robot for Dynamic Walking
FZI Research Scientist Christian Eichmann, FZI Department Manager Georg Heppner, Prof. Arne Roennau, FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann - A Benchmarking and Test Lab for Legged Robots
FZI Research Scientists Sabine Bellmann and Martina Overbeck, FZI Department Manager Tristan Schnell, Prof. Arne Roennau - Quantum Algorithms for Trajectory Optimization Problems, a Roboticist Guideline
FZI Research Scientists Feline Pirchmoser and Genessis Perez Rivera, FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann - Legged Probing of the Immediate Environment
FZI Research Scientists Lennart Puck and David Schwarze, FZI Department Managers Tristan Schnell and Georg Heppner, FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann
Friday, September 6, 2024
approx. 5 p.m.
Excursion to the wine festival “Wurstmarkt” in Bad Dürkheim (guided tour of the Wurstmarkt and a reserved table at the “Schubkarchstände”) organized by the FZI CLAWAR team
FZI presenters at CLAWAR 2024
- Lennart Puck (Wednesday, September 4, 9:30-10:50 a.m.: Technical Session 2 AI based Systems and Solutions, Room BISAM)
- FZI Department Manager Tristan Schnell (Wednesday, September 4, 11:50-12:50 a.m.: Technical Session 4 Biologically-inspired Systems and Solutions I, Room BISAM and Friday, September 6, 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Technical Session 14 Innovative Robot Design II, Room BISAM)
- Carsten Plasberg (Thursday, September 5, 9:30-10:50 a.m.: Technical Session 7 Human-like Robots, Room LAURON)
- Marvin Große Besselmann (Thursday, September 5, 9:30-10:50: a.m. Technical Session 8 Planetary exploration, Room BISAM)
- Genessis Perez Rivera (Thursday, September 5, 11:50-12:50 a.m.: Technical Session 9 Application II, Room LAURON)
- FZI Director Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann (Thursday September 5, 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Plenary Talk, Room LAURON and Friday, September 6, 9:30-10:50 a.m.: Technical Sessions 12 Prosthetics and Rehabilitation, Room BISAM
