2-Day WORKSHOPonFundamental Issues and Future Research Directions for Parallel Mechanisms and Manipulators

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

This workshop seeks to bring together experts in the area of parallel manipulators from around the globe for two days in order to disseminate recent research progress and to identify the most promising future research directions for parallel manipulators. This meeting is not a routine conference, wherein the primary responsibility of the participant is to present his or her paper. Instead, through a series of focused keynote presentations, round-tables, focused paper sessions, focused poster sessions and in-depth discussion sessions we seek convergence on key issues related to parallel manipulators.

By focusing on workshop activities, rather than standard conference activites, this workshop seeks to complement other conferences and meetings dealing with parallel manipulators.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

• Develop awareness of the current state-of-the-art of research in all areas of parallel manipulators and wire-driven manipulators, including kinematics, dynamics, controls, design and novel applications;

• Identify roadblocks that must be resolved to increase the industrial use of parallel manipulators;

• Identify open problems in the theoretical framework;

• Identify promising approaches that may yield significant advances in the theoretical framework;

• Establish and reinforce international collaboration and collaboration between academia and industry;

• Discuss educational needs and methods;

• Develop a strategy for the research community as a whole to accelerate the development and use of parallel manipulators.

POST-WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

1. The workshop attracted over 100 participants from academia and industry!

2. The proceedings are available to the general public. DOWNLOAD THE PROCEEDINGS

3. The workshop concluded with a summary that outlined the key issues raised at the workshop. VIEW THE SUMMARY

4. View pictures from the workshop. PHOTOS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

JEAN-PIERRE MERLET

INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France

JORGE ANGELES

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

TORGNY BROGARDH

ABB Robotics, Sweden

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:

CLEMENT GOSSELIN

Département de Génie MécaniqueUniversité Laval,Québec, Québec, Canada

email: gosselin@gmc.ulaval.ca

IMME EBERT-UPHOFF

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University

e-mail: iebert@colostate.edu https://www.engr.colostate.edu/~iebert/

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in alphabetical order):

Sunil Agrawal -- Univ. of Delaware, US

Jian Dai -- King's College London, UK

Tian Huang -- Tianjin Univ., P.R. China

Just Herder -- Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands

Venkat Krovi -- SUNY Buffalo, US

John McPhee -- Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli -- Univ. of Bologna, Italy

Francois Pierrot -- LIRMM, France

Moshe Shoham -- Technion, Israel

Yukio Takeda -- Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan

Philippe Wenger -- IRCCynN, France

Gloria Wiens -- Univ. of Florida, US

INDUSTRY PANELISTS:

Torgny Brogardh -- ABB Robotics, Sweden

Ed Dougherty -- August Design Inc., US

Adam Jacoff -- NIST, US

Gerhard Serapins -- CAE, Montreal, Canada

Paul Sheldon-- SheldonWorks, US

EDUCATIONAL PANEL DISCUSSION LED BY:

J. Michael McCarthy-- University of California, Irvine, US

Just Herder-- Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands

THIS WORKSHOP WAS SPONSORED BY: