Active Perception Workshop Logo

Bridging Sensing, Planning and Interaction

in conjunction with IROS

Monday 20th October - 8:30 (room 301)

Hangzhou, CHINA


Overview

Active Perception is a key component in robotics, enabling systems to dynamically acquire useful information by optimizing their sensing strategies. This workshop will explore the intersection of sensor placement, planning, and interaction, addressing challenges in uncertainty-aware decision-making, localization, and multi-robot coordination.

Topics will include deep learning-driven perception, reinforcement learning for sensor selection, multi-robot exploration, and perception through interaction. The event aims to bridge the gap between planning-driven robotics approaches and perception-focused strategies.

Manipulation and Grasping

Robot arms and hands adjust their pose, force, or tactile sensing to better understand objects before grasping them.

Exploration & Mapping (SLAM)

Robots actively plan their viewpoints to improve Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) efficiency and accuracy.

Exploration & Mapping (SLAM)

Robots actively plan their viewpoints to improve Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) efficiency and accuracy.

Sensor Fusion

Actively combining information from RGB, LiDAR, radar, thermal, event cameras (...) to improve perception.

Next-Best-View Planning

Deciding where to move sensors next for better perception in tasks like localization, mapping, or object search.

Uncertainty-Aware Planning

Robots actively gather missing or uncertain information to improve their models and make better decisions.

Poster Presentation and Highlight Talks

Poster Presentation and Highlight Talks

Speakers from Diverse Application Areas

Speakers from Diverse Application Areas

Keynote Speakers 🎀

TBA Speaker

Big Reveal Coming Soon!

Stay Tuned

Talk: πŸ€– Exploring the Frontiers of Active Perception

TBA Speaker

Big Reveal Coming Soon!

Stay Tuned

Talk: πŸ€– Exploring the Frontiers of Active Perception

TBA Speaker

Big Reveal Coming Soon!

Stay Tuned

Talk: πŸ€– Exploring the Frontiers of Active Perception

Active Localization Challenge πŸš€

You are provided with a sparse map of the environment and assume to have a robot equipped with a camera that can freely rotate with respect to the mobile base. Given some robot waypoints, the goal is to rotate the camera towards more meaningful parts of the map, improving localization accuracy.

Active Localization Challenge

Organizers