Introductory tutorial to ROS and its use for robot in-hand manipulation.

Tutorial held at IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

List of Topics:

ROS Introduction and Case-Study demonstration.

• Motion planning capabilities.
• Grasp planning and integration with GraspIt!
• Visual Perception System within HANDLE EU project using ROS.
• Managing coordinate frames with ROS.
• Control of the Shadow Dexterous Hand using ROS.
• Hand configuration perception with distributed sensors using ROS
• Grasp and Motion Planning with Underwater Intervention Vehicles running ROS: the experience of TRIDENT EU project.
• Adapting the manipulation stack to in-hand manipulation.

List of Speakers

• Jorge Dias, University of Coimbra
• Jorge Lobo, University of Coimbra
• Véronique Perdereau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
• Matei Ciocarlie, Willow Garage
• Sachin Chitta, Willow Garage
• Silvia Rodríguez-Jiménez, University Carlos III of Madrid
• João Bimbo, King’s College London
• Toni Oliver, Shadow Robot Company
• Pedro Trindade, ISR - University of Coimbra
• Mario Prats, University Jaume I
• Guillaume Walck, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

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