UK-RAS Legged Robotics Task Group seminar, part of the RAIN Webinar Series

10 December, 9:30 – 10:30 [UK time]

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/708659623

- Introduction [9:25-9:30am; UK]

- Dr. Dave Megson Smith, University of Bristol [9:30 - 9:50am; UK]

Topic: Spot in Chernobyl

Title: Development and deployment of a gamma imaging system on a quadrupedal robot within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Short bio: David Megson-Smith is a researcher at the University of Bristol. He specialises in sensors for nuclear and medical application. Within the nuclear space specifically, he has developed systems for remote robotic deployment including robotically operated Raman sensors, hyperspectral imaging systems, stereovision and solid-state LIDARs. Most recently, he was part of the team responsible for the rapid, in-field development of a scanning gamma spectroscopic imager, which was deployed within the New Safe Confinement of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

- Dr. Olivier Stasse, LAAS-CNRC [9:50 - 10:10am; UK]

Topic: Industrial deployment of TALOS humanoid robot

Title: Motion generation for humanoid and complex robots: from Motion Planning to Whole body controller

Short bio: Olivier Stasse is a CNRS Senior scientist in humanoid robotics at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse France. He received in 2000 a Ph.D. on Intelligent Systems from the University of Paris 6, and the French Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Robotics (2013) from the University of Toulouse III. From 2000 to 2003, he was assistant professor at the Univ. of Paris XIII. From 2003 to 2011, he was at the Joint French-Japanese Robotics Laboratory (JRL) between the CNRS and the AIST in Tsukuba. In 2011 he joined the Gepetto team at LAAS. His research interest is in fast decision making to generate motion for humanoid robotics. He managed the specifications and the contracting of the first humanoid robot of the TALOS serie from PAL-ROBOTICS. He is co-directing the joint lab ROB4FAM with Airbus Toulouse, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

- Dr. Kunio Kojima / Dr. Yuta Kojio, University of Tokyo [10:10 - 10:30am; UK]

Topic: The Jaxon 2/3 humanoid robot

Title: Hardware Design and Locomotion System of JAXON

Short Bio: Kunio Kojima and Yuta Kojio are assistant professors of The University of Tokyo. Kunio Kojima completed his PhD Thesis on the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies of the university in September 2018, supervised by Prof. Masayuki Inaba. His current research is mechanical design and joint torque control for humanoids. Yuta Kojio completed his PhD Thesis on the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of the university in March 2020, supervised by Prof. Masayuki Inaba. His current research is real time footstep control considering visual information for humanoids.