This is an internal event for UT- and Saxion-members.
Please register: https://forms.gle/zLiQpTBCshLzGHcQ6
The Twente Robotics Symposium is low barrier event mainly to get to know other robotics or robotics related researchers of University of Twente. The agenda typically consists of 3 parts:
15:00 -15:30 presentation by Timo Roestenberg, Robotic Systems Business Unit Manager at Demcon
15:30 – 16:00 10 x 3 minute pitches of various groups of the UT (and Saxion):
Nicolo Botteghi | Learning navigation skills with reinforcement learning |
Beril Sirmacek | Online UAV path planning with a SLAM-based approach for 3D reconstruction and inspection of unknown objects |
Douwe Dresscher | Twente Robotics in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE |
Jakub Sikorski | Magnetic Steering for Flexible Surgical Robots |
Cristina Bayón Calderón | Symbitron exoskeleton: the way to win Cybathlon 2020 |
Daniel Davison | Classroom robot for enquiry learning |
Ronald Aarts | Flexure-based over-actuated mechanism for increased range of motion |
Michiel Heldeweg | Try first and ask for forgiveness later? Why and how a legal governance strategy in robotics may make more sense… |
Hanieh Esmaeeli | Aerial inspection and maintenance |
Frank vd Velde | Cognition with and for robots |
16:00 – 17:00 time to visit the 5 - 10 demonstrations related to the pitches, and interact with the researchers.
At the end of the year a Robotics event will be organized for external UT relations
Invited talk by Timo Roestenberg, Robotic Systems Business Unit Manager at Demcon
DEMCON sees great opportunities for robotics in the future. We are increasingly seeing an awareness of the potential of robotics in the market and, consequently, a rapidly increasing demand for the development of robotics solutions for a range of applications. Industrial robots have been used in production processes for a long time, but also the mobile robot, which is capable of performing the “Dull, Dirty & Dangerous” tasks, is taking off. In the first instance this question will be answered by robots that can be controlled remotely, but certainly in the future, as acceptance increases, more and more demand will come for robots with a high degree of autonomy. Man will shift from "in the loop" to "on the loop" to "out of the loop".
To answer this question, the Robotic Systems business unit was set up at DEMCON, focused on obtaining relevant knowledge for the development of mobile robotics. There is a consolidated roadmap to have the right competencies across sites, to be able to tackle challenging robotics development projects in the future. This of course in addition to the ongoing commercial development projects in the robotics field.