23rd Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference

UKAEA’s RACE is delighted to be hosting the 23rd TAROS – the longest running UK-hosted international conference on Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS).

TAROS is aimed at the presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications.

This conference offers a friendly environment for robotics researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress. It welcomes senior researchers and research students alike, and specifically provides opportunities for research students and young research scientists to present their work to the scientific community.

Programme

Keynote speakers

TAROS 2022 is excited to welcome the following keynote speakers to this year’s conference. Full details of each talk will be confirmed in the conference programme.

Professor Paul Newman – Oxbotica, ORI
Professor Luc Jaulin – ENSTA Bretagne

Time	Wednesday 7 Sep	Thursday 8 Sep
9:00 – 9:30	Registration and coffee	Coffee and networking
9:30 – 10:00	Welcome talks	Keynote Underwater exploration by an autonomous robot with the method of stable cycles Luc Jaulin (Ensta Bretagne)
10:00 – 10:30	Keynote Universal Autonomy about and without the Hard Miles Paul Newman, Oxbotica
10:30 – 11:00		Poster session and networking with coffee
11:00 – 11:20	Poster session and networking with coffee	Session 3 – Design, Modelling and Applications
11:00 – 11:20	Poster session and networking with coffee	Effectiveness of brush parameters in a robotically removal of glovebox debris
11:20 – 11:40	Session 1 – Teleoperation	A distributed approach to haptic simulation
11:20 – 11:40	Teleoperating a Legged Manipulator through Whole-Body Control	A distributed approach to haptic simulation
11:40 – 12:00	Trigger-Assisted Ambidextrous Control Framework for Teleoperation of Two Legged Manipulators	Tactile and Proprioceptive Online Learning in Robotic Contour Following
12:00 – 12:20	Implementing and assessing a remote teleoperation setup with a Digital Twin using cloud networking	In-silico Design and Computational Modelling of Electroactive Polymer based Soft Robotics
12:20 – 12:40	Investigating the relationship between posture and safety in teleoperational tasks: A pilot study in improved operational safety through enhanced human-machine interaction	Lunch break and site tours
12:40 – 14:00	Lunch break	Lunch break and site tours
14:00 – 14:20	Session 2 – Perception and Planning	Session 4 – Agent-based learning and multi-agent systems
14:00 – 14:20	EMap: Real-time terrain estimation	Agent-Based Simulation of Multi-Robot Soil Compaction Mapping
14:20 – 14:40	Internal State-based Risk Assessment for Robots in Hazardous Environment	Towards Scalable Multi-Robot Systems by Partitioning the Task Domain
14:40 – 15:00	A-EMS: An Adaptive Emergency Management System for Autonomous Agents in Unforeseen Situations	Integration and robustness analysis of the Buzz swarm programming language with the Pi-puck robot platform
15:00 – 15:20	Sensing Anomalies as Potential Hazards: Datasets and Benchmarks	Task Independent Safety Assessment for Reinforcement Learning
15:20-15:30	Coffee and networking	Coffee and networking
15:30-16:00	Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics Award	Discussion panel
16:00-16:30	Lightning talks	Discussion panel