Program
The conference takes place at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 25, Prague 1. Room directions will be available on-site.
Tentative program

For detailed program please navigate here: Detailed program

 

Invited talks:
Veronique Raoul, President of Eurobot Association
Eurobot - an educational initiative, providing effective, fun and practical work in diverse areas from robotics to project management.
Ivan M. Havel, Center for Theoretical Study of Charles University in Prague & the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
From Here to Singularity - Facing an untamed explosion of artificial intelligence. A piece of analytical futurology.
Alexander Hildebrandt, Mechatronic Systems Research, Festo AG & Co. KG, Germany
Pneumatic drive systems for secured HMI applications
Jana Horáková, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Looking Backward at Czech Robot - The speech is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., Rossum's Universal Robots official first night at National Theatre in Prague, in which Robots, as drama characters, were introduced to the world for the first time.
Josef Průša, RepRap core developer
Open Source Hardware - Designing RepRap, a self replicating open source 3D printer: "Open source hardware" concepts, experiences and lessons learned.
The talk will be accompanied by a live on-site demonstration of the RepRap 3D printer.

 

Technical papers
(Alphabetical list; for time schedule please navigate here: Detailed program)

Irene Alvarez Caro: VEX Robotics: STEM Program and Robotics Competition Expansion into Europe
Silas F. R. Alves, Humberto Ferasoli Filho, Rene Pegoraro, Marco A. C. Caldeira, Joao M. Rosario and Wilson M. Yonezawa: Educational Environment for Robotic Applications in Engineering
Dorit Assaf and Rolf Pfeifer: EmbedIT -- an Open Robotic Kit for Education
Janusz Bedkowski and Andrzej Maslowski: Semantic simulation engine in mobile robot operator training tool
Oliver Bittel and Michael Blaich: Mobile Robot Localization Using Beacons and the Kalman Filter Technique for the Eurobot Competition
Javier Caccavelli, Sol Pedre, Pablo De Cristoforis, Andrea Katz and Diego Bendersky: A new programming interface for Educational Robotics
Petr Cermak and Jozef Kelemen: An Attempt to Teaching Programming with Robots
Jean-Daniel Dessimoz and Pierre-Francois Gauthey: Domestic Service Robots in the Real World: More on the Case of Intelligent Robots Following Humans
Valentin Durst, Daniel Hagel, Jan Vander, Michael Blaich and Oliver Bittel: Designing an Omni-Directional Infrared Sensor and Beacon System for the Eurobot Competition
Achim Gottscheber, Andreas Hochlehnert and Lukas Mairon: How to Teach Robotics to Children
Gernot Grabmair: Model-based Nonlinear Control of 2-WMR
Matthias Greuter, Michael Rosenfelder, Michael Blaich and Oliver Bittel: Obstacle and Game Element Detection with the 3D-Sensor Kinect
Jaroslav Hanzel, Marian Klucik, Ladislav Jurisica and Anton Vitko: Identification based model of ultrasonic sensor
Dmitry Kononchuk, Victor Kandoba, Sergey Zhigalov, Pavel Abduramanov and Yuri Okulovsky: RoboCoP: a Protocol for Service-Oriented Robot Control Systems
Tomas Krajnik, Vojtech Vonasek, Daniel Fiser and Jan Faigl: AR-Drone as a Platform for Robotic Research and Education
Andrey Kuturov, Anton Yudin, Igor Pashinskiy and Mikhail Chistyakov: Team Development of an Autonomous Mobile Robot: Approaches and Results
Milan Lukic, Miodrag Brkic and Jovan Bajic: An autonomous robot localization system based on coded infrared beacons
Lenka Mudrova, Vaclav Jahoda, Oliver Porges and Tomas Krajnik: An Omnidirectional Mobile Robot for Large Object Handling
Ana C. Murillo, Alejandro R. Mosteo, Jose A. Castellanos and Luis Montano: A Practical Mobile Robotics Engineering Course using LEGO Mindstorms
Othon Da Rocha Neves Jr., Joao Bosco Da Mota Alves and Josue Ramos: An 8 Year Old Educational Robotics Program -- Structure, Methodology and Goals
Vincent Pierlot, Maxime Urbin-Choffray and Marc Van Droogenbroeck: A new three object triangulation algorithm based on the power center of three circles
Mirko Rakovic, Milutin Nikolic and Branislav Borovac: Humanoid Robot Reaching Task Using Support Vector Machine
Jens Schlemper, Lars Kuhnert, Markus Ax and Klaus-Dieter Kuhnert: Development of a high speed 3D laser measurement system for outdoor robotics
Johannes Stier, Gero Zechel and Michael Beitelschmidt: A Robot Competition to Encourage First-Year Students in Mechatronic Sciences
Ryoichi Suzuki and Nobuaki Kobayashi: Engineering Education Program at Kanazawa Institute of Technology: A Case Study in Department of Robotics
Tomas Vintr, Lukas Pastorek and Hana Rezankova: Autonomous Robot Navigation Based on Clustering Across Images
Anton Yudin and Mikhail Semyonov: Distributed Control System for a Mobile Robot: Tasks and Software Architecture

Not-yet-registered:
Dusko Lukac and Werner Schollenberger: University Education in Robotics and Advanced Automation: a Certified Lectures Perspective and Strategy for Development of Didactical and Technical Course Model