Robolution

Summer School of Robotics

28 June to 12 July 2008

Organized in cooperation with the BEST - see the official website of the BEST summer course

NEW!: Latest version of the TIMETABLE is available here.

NEW!: The list of participants is available here.

The activities labeled are recommended for the participants of the BEST summer course. All the activities except the laboratory workshops are open to the public. Robotika.SK organizes at the same time Robotic holidays. You can visit any lectures and tutorials listed here PLUS You can participate on the projects which will be solved during these days.

Following topics/presentations are confirmed for now:

• History of the word Robot and the cultural context of robotics.
  prof. RNDr. Jozef Kelemen, DrSc. (Silesian University in Opava, CZ)
  • Horáková, Kelemen: Čapek, Turing, von Neumann, and the 20th Century Evolution of the Concept of Machine
  • Horáková, Kelemen: Robots – Some Cultural Roots''
  • Horáková, Kelemen: Robot: The True Story of the Word

• Basics of DSP on AVR processors (hands-on tutorial).
  Prof. Dipl.-Phys. Gerhard Gruhler, Dipl. Ing. Peter Haeuptle (Hochschule Heilbronn, DE)
  Date: 9. - 10. 7. 2008

• Lecture History of the robotics.
  assoc. prof. Ing. Peter Hubinský, PhD. (FEI STU, SK)
  Illustrated lecture about the history of the robotics - from ancient inventions to the latest research projects. Information about technical and also non-technical aspects of the robotics evolution.

• Lecture Kinematics of mobile robots.
  assoc. prof. Ing. Peter Hubinský, PhD. (FEI STU, SK)
  Basic types of the mobile robot kinematics - differential drive, tricycle, Ackermann steering, omnidirectional wheels, synchronous drives - basic structures, coordinate transformations, technical solutions.

• Lecture Data fusion, context awareness and fault detection in autonomous robotics.
  Assoc. Prof. Anton Vitko, PhD. (FEI STU, SK)
  A brief survey of the main approaches to the data fusion for purposes of both the reactive navigation in an unknown terrain and fault detection. Main points:
  • What is data fusion and why the data should be fused?
  • What is a context?
  • Fusion hierarchy
  • Means of data fusion
  • Using fused information for detection, clustering and classification of an abnormal motion of the robot's leg

• Lecture "Subsumption: Brooks' approach to robotics"
  RNDr. Andrej Lúčny, PhD. (MicroStep-MIS, SK)
  We introduce subsumption as simplified method how to mimics biological evolution for purposes of robot construction. Features of biological creatures as their situatedness in particular environment and thinkering (bricolage) during their evolution are used as important insiration.

• Tutorial "How to follow a ping-pong ball"
  RNDr. Andrej Lúčny, PhD. (MicroStep-MIS, SK)
  We introduce step-by-step necessary methods of image processing and behavior control for development of a simple robot which follow a ping-pong ball. In this way we demonstrate several important principles on a simple example.

• Lecture Bayesian Robot Programming and Probabilistic Robotics.
  Mgr. Pavel Petrovič, PhD. (FMFI UK, SK)
  The information about the robot environment acquired from robot sensors is uncertain, ambiguous and noisy. To cope with this kind of information, probabilistic modeling of the world is appropriate. The parameters of the probabilistic distributions can be obtained by learning from experimental data. This tutorial will introduce basic concepts used in probabilistic robotics and demonstrate them on practical examples.

• Lecture Selected topics from Evolutionary Algorithms I, II
  Mgr. Pavel Petrovič, PhD. (FMFI UK, SK)
  Evolutionary Algorithms are stochastic search and optimisation algorithms. Various flavours of the algorithms are known. We will shortly review the basic methods and discuss the more advanced approaches including probabilistic representations of populations, multi-objective evolutionary optimisation, representation issues, and evolution of recurrent neural networks.

• Workshop Basic operation with a Boe-Bot mobile robot.
  Ing. Richard Balogh (Robotika.SK)

• Workshop Low-level programming of NXT robots.
  Mgr. Pavel Petrovič, PhD. (FMFI UK, SK)
  The popular robotics construction sets - LEGO Mindstorms NXT can be programmed using the standard programming environment RoboLab, and many other 3rd party programming environments, such as NBC, NXC, RobotC, Lejos, and other. In this workshop, we will learn how to program the robots directly in C, i.e. how to write a firmware for the NXT brick.

• Workshop PIC processor C programming.
  dipl.-Ing. Adrian Dabrowski (InnoC.AT, Austria)
  

A sensor workshop for mobile robots - presentation of a ultrasonic sensor, a CMUCam, GPS, IR, and some others.

• Roboat Excursion at the lake Neusiedler (Austria)
  Come with us to see the best autonomous sailboat in action.

Registration

Please, use this form.

Information

• When?
  

28 June to 12 July 2008

• Where?
  

In the Mobile Robotics Research Lab located at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia. Exact address: Ilkovičova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia.

• Who?
  

Anybody interested. No age limitations.

• How many people?
  

Awaiting cca 10 - 15 persons.

• How much?
  

Thanks to sponsors is it free of charge, but You have to pay for accomodation and food, respectively.

• Where to sleep and what to eat?
  

We can help to arrange beds and food in hostel but you have to pay for it.

• Where to ask questions?
  

Use an e-mail to organisers.

Archive

• Robotic holidays 2007
• Robotic holidays 2006
• Robotic holidays 2005
• Robotic holidays 2004

Contact

richard.balogh [at] robotika.sk

Sponsors and partners

Robotika.SK	FEI STU	BEST local group Bratislava	InnoC.at

Sponsored by RLX Components	Project supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency	Project supported from the Interreg IV project Centrobot	FHHN