At the European Robotics Forum 2012 KU Leuven and Intermodalics are organizing a three-part seminar, appealing to both industry and research institutes, titled:

1. Introduction to state charts and reusable, modular task specification through the Orocos eco-system
2. Hands-on1: getting started with state charts in the Orocos eco-system
3. Hands-on2: getting started with instantaneous motion specification using constraints (iTaSC): reusable and modular task specification

The sessions will be on March 6, 8h30-10h30 + 11h00-12h30 + 13h30-15h00 (Track four). For more detail consult the European Robotics Forum program

Remaining seats: (last update: March 2, 2012) Hands-on 1: 0 out of 20 Hands-on 2: 0 out of 20

We're fully booked, but don't be shy to come and peek or sit along, although we can't guarantee you a table or a chair !

(Information on last year's workshop can be found here.)

Registration

You first need to register for attending the euRobotics Forum. Registration for the workshop is mandatory, but free of charge. For the hands-on sessions (hands-on 1 and hands-on 2), we will limit the number of participants to 20. The workshops are guided by different experienced Orocos users. Please register your participation by sending an email to info at intermodalics dot eu indicating which workshops you want to attend. We will confirm your participation with a short notice. Later-on, you will receive a second email with more details about how to prepare. You should receive this second, detailed email in the week of February, 27, 2012.

Motivation and objective

The workshop consists of three rather independent parts. It is advised but not required to follow the preceding session(s) when attending session two or three.

1. The first session is a presentation session, it introduces the basic concepts of Orocos application programming, followed by rFSM state charts and the iTaSC framework.
2. The second session is a hands-on session, that aims at making the participants familiar with rFSM state charts, which is a powerful though easy to use tool for robotic coordination and supervision tasks,
3. The third sessions is also a hands-on session, that aims at introducing the concepts of constraint-based motion specification using the iTaSC framework. This framework and its software implementation was developed at the KU Leuven during the past years. It's key advantages are the composability of (partial) constraints and reusability of the constraint specification. The software is an open-source project, which has recently reached its 2.0 version.

Approach

1. Presentation session, giving a high-level overview of rFSM and iTaSC by introducing the key concepts.
2. Hands-on session: guided exercise where the participants will have to create an application with interacting state machines, that can be used for example to coordinate the behavior of the iTaSC application of the following session.
3. Hands-on session: guided exercise where the participants will have to create an application consisting of multiple tasks on a robot in simulation. Eg. Drawing a figure on a table and avoiding a moving obstacle with a Kuka Youbot.

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Presentations

• Session 3

iTaSC hands-on session

• Session 1:

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