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SUMMARY:Robotic Manipulation of Complex Deformable Linear Objects - Dr Krz
 ysztof Walas\, Assistant Prof. at Poznan University of Technology\, Poland
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CONTACT:Slawomir Tadeja
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Cyber-Human Lab seminar at IfM\, we have the pl
 easure of hosting two guest speakers from the Poznan University of Technol
 ogy (PUT)\, Poznan\, Poland. The seminars will run one after another from 
 12:00 to 13:15 in Seminar Room 2 at IfM\, West Cambridge. The Cyber-Human 
 Lab seminars are open to everybody.\n\n\nDr Krzysztof Walas\, Assitant Pro
 fessor with PUT\, will deliver the first of the two talks.\n\n\nAbstract:\
 n\nThis talk will describe our latest developments in deformable linear ob
 jects (DLO) manipulation. First\, I will present our approach to fast DLO 
 shape estimation\, which is robust to occlusions and works on 2D and 3D da
 ta. Second\, I will discuss DLO manipulation with two robotic arms to obta
 in the desired configuration based on reliable perception. Finally\, I wil
 l show our results in the context of the industrial scenario. The presente
 d research is part of the H2020 REMODEL project\, where one of the propose
 d use cases is placing the wiring harness in the car cockpit in a vehicle 
 manufacturing process.\n\nPresenters Bio:\n\nKrzysztof Walas graduated fro
 m Poznan University of Technology (PUT) in Poland\, receiving MSc in Autom
 atic Control and Robotics. He received (with honours) PhD in Robotics in 2
 012 for his thesis concerning legged robot locomotion in structured enviro
 nments. He did his Postdoc at The University of Birmingham\, School of Com
 puter Science\, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. He is a recipient of the 
 LIDER project from the National Center for Research and Development. He wa
 s a PI in the THING project on subterranean-legged locomotion within Horiz
 on 2020. He is PI in REMODEL project on deformable object manipulation wit
 hin Horizon 2020. Currently\, he is an Assistant Professor at the Institut
 e of Robotics and Machine Intelligence at PUT. His research interests are 
 related to robotic perception for physical interaction applied both to wal
 king and grasping tasks.
LOCATION:Institute of Manufacturing (IfM)\, Seminar Room 2
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