Schedule

08:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:00 Inauguration

10:00 - 10:30 Networking Break

10:30 - 12.30 Session 1

Inductive Biases for Robot Learning, Jan Peters

Perspectives on Autonomous Flight: Motion Planning and Robotic Herding, Aditya Paranjape

Automated Labeling and Tracking of Surgical Tools in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) Videos, Leena Vachhani

Robot Learning in the Industry, Arjun Datta

Cooperative Task Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems, Arpita Sinha

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00- 15:30 Session 2

Intelligent Cyber-physical Systems for Smart Grids - Imperatives for Adani Energy, Rajesh Lad

Quadruped Robot for Agriculture Applications, Mangal Kothari

Learning Grounded Models for High-level Robot Task Execution, Rohan Paul

Interactive Robot Perception and Learning for Mobile Manipulation, Georgia Chalvatzaki

15:30 - 16:00 Networking Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 3

Towards Generalist Embodied Agent via Generative Simulation, Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Brain over Brawn: Rethinking Robot Learning for Autonomy at Scale, Abhinav Valada

The Immune Network, Shivashankar Nair

Multimodal machine learning for Robotics and Autonomy, Srikanth Vidapanakal

19:00 - 21:00 Official Dinner

09:00 - 10:30 Session 4

Learning Robotic Manipulation for Human-Robot Interaction and Tactile Exploration, Alap Kshirsagar

Coordinated coverage using Deep Reinforcement learning with localization constraints, Sujit P B

Advancing Swarm Robotics: Innovative Learning Strategies for Collective Behavior, Jonas Kuckling

Task Parameterized Interactive Imitation Learning, Ravi Prakash

10:30 - 11:00 Networking Break

11:00 - 12:30 Session 5

The Role of the Robotic Body in Learning Agile & Accurate Control, Dieter Büchler

Gait Planner and Controller Design for the Biped Robot: A Neural network-based approach, V. Pandu Ranga

Intrinsic Motivations for Efficient Exploration in Reinforcement Learning, Georg Martius

Leveraging Proprioception to Construct the Robot Body Schema, Fernando Diaz Ledezma

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Session 6

Bayesian Optimization - From Foundations to Applications in Industry, Haitham Bou Ammar

Drones for sustainable Agriculture, Abhishek Burman

Safe and Explainable Reinforcement Learning, Balaraman Ravindran

15:00 - 16:00 Brainstorming session Part-1

16:00 - 16:30 Networking Break

16:30 - 17:30 Brainstorming session Part-2

09:30 - 11:00 Poster session

11:00 - 12:30 Industry and Lab Visits

12:30 - 13:00 Closing ceremony

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch