One week for a big challenge.
The school will take place from Monday, September 7, to Friday,
September 11, from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Each day will feature different activities on various topics revolving
service robotics.
The program includes visits to industrial and research partners in Turin, providing participants with direct
exposure to real-world robotic industry and innovation environments.
The school will count as 1.5 CFU extra-curricular activity. Participation certificate will be given to get
recognition from university.
Day 1 - Service Robotics
Welcome Day
Day 2 - SLAM/Agri
Day 3 - Space Robotics
Day 4 - Social Navigation
Day 5 - Final Test Challenge
End of Summer School
Invited Speakers
Prof. Luis Manso
(Aston University, UK)
Luis J. Manso is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computer Science at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences of Aston University (joined in 08/2018) and a member of the Autonomous Robotics and Perception Laboratory.Before that, he was a Research assistant (02/2010 to 07/2013) and Postdoctoral researcher (07/2013 to 07/2018) at the University of Extremadura. He obtained his degree in Computer Engineering and his PhD from the University of Extremadura in 2009 and 2013, respectively. His research interests include geometric learning, active perception, human-robot interaction and sparse predictive world models.
Lecture topic: Introduction to Social Robot Navigation: development and benchmarking
Prof. Noé Pérez Higueras
(Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain)
Assistant Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain), leading teaching and research in robotics and autonomous systems. Postdoctoral Researcher at the Service Robotics Lab, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2021–2025), specializing in autonomous navigation, mobile robotics, and CNN-based perception. Senior Navigation Engineer at PAL Robotics (Barcelona, 2020–2021), developing real-world robot navigation systems. Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2018–2020) within the EU RFCS INDIRES project. Research focused on autonomous navigation and exploration of ground and aerial robots in complex environments.
Lecture topic: Introduction to Social Robot Navigation: Human-models and HunavSim simulators
Prof. Francisco Barranco
(University of Granada, Spain)
Associate Professor at Department of Computer Architecture and Technology ETSIIT-CITIC at University of Granada. Dr. Barranco has more than 14 scientific publications in international journals ranked in the JCR in different disciplines, and 11 more in conferences. He is right now an IOF Marie Curie Fellow, which is a joint effort between the University of Granada and the University of Maryland (MD, USA). He belongs to Prof. Ros research group, and it is interested in the development and application of bio-inspired principles in interfacing robot systems and spiking models, active vision, attention, and architectural principles in low-level vision engines. He also has long expertise in real-time based FPGA processing.
Lecture topic: Edge-AI & neuromorphic computing for robotics
David Rodríguez-Martínez, PhD
He is Junior Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation and member of the Space Robotics Lab at the University of Malaga. Through his research he explores innovative mobility systems and unique navigation methods for the robotic exploration of other celestial bodies. He likes working on fast lunar robots and cool new sensing technologies, with the goal of ultimately enabling robotic autonomy to explore some of the most extreme environments in the inner Solar System.
Lecture topic: Robotics and technologies for Space applications