€ 0,6 Million for Fully Autonomous WheeL Loaders

Researchers at the AASS Learning Systems Lab at Örebro University collaborate with Swedish construction company NCC and truck builder Volvo CE to develope a generic, modularized system for autonomous wheel loaders that carries out all parts of the material handling cycle in the context of an asphalt production site.

This project is co-sponsored by the KK-foundation, Vinnova and Robodalen.

Euron/Europ annual meetings 2010, 2011

The EURON and EUROP Boards have taken a decision about the organisation of their Annual Meetings of 2010 and 2011. The 2010 meeting will be organised in cooperation with Fatronik/Tecnalia in San Sebastian, Spain and the 2011 meeting will be organised by Robotdalen in Västerås, Sweden.

Robotdalen Scientific Award 2008

For the second time Robotdalen awards the winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award with € 20.000. The prize ceremony takes place on the annual conference Robotdalen Day in Eskilstuna, Sweden on September 10. Three finalists, selected by the jury, will attend the ceremony where one winner and two honorary mentions will be announced. The three candidates attending the prize ceremony are:

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, University of Toronto, Canada
Sylvian Calinon, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Schweiz (The Winner 2008)
Antonios Bouloubasis, University of Reading, UK

Members of the jury are:
Peter Wide, PhD, Professor in Measurement Technology at Örebro University, Sweden
Charlotte Brogren, Vice President R&D, Robotics Division, ABB
Emil M. Petriu, Dr.Eng., P.Eng., Professor and University Research Chair at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada
Mel Siegel, Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Dr Amy Loutfi, Senior Researcher at the Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems Research

Belgium researcher won the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2007

Three final candidates attended the first prize ceremony of the international Robotdalen Scientific Award, set up by the Swedish robotics cluster Robotdalen. Dr Eric Demeester from Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium won the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2007 with his thesis “User-adapted plan recognition and shared control for wheelchair driver assistance under uncertainty”and received € 20 000.

The jury’s statement on the winning thesis was: A beautifully organized and prepared application describing the candidate's research in human-robot interaction with the crucial goal of "understanding what the user had in mind", excellently implemented in the important domain of intelligent wheelchair mobility. The jury was impressed by the importance of the underlying problem and the relevance of the application domain, the extensibility of the approach, and the integration of theory, modelling, and hands-on implementation.

The two other final candidates are Bram Vanderborght from Virje Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Mike Stilman from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, who both received honorary mentions and a prize sum of 1 000 euro each.

Three final candidates for the Robotdalen Scientific Award

The three final candidates of the Robotdalen Scientific Award have been elected and will all attend the prize ceremony at Robotdalen Day in Örebro September 5, where the winner will be officially presented. The final candidates are:
* Bram Vanderborght from Virje Universiteit Brussel in Belgium,
* Eric Demeester from Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium,
* Mike Stilman from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA.

Swedish Robotdalen has founded The Robotdalen Scientific Award, an international competition for young scientists, with EUR 20 000 in prize money. The purpose is to encourage young, innovative people all over the world in the field of robotics and automation, to find new and untried approaches for the future.