ICRA 2025 @Atlanta, USA

Workshops and Papers presentations at ICRA 2025

A delegation from IDRA attended the 41st edition of ICRA, held in Atlanta (USA) in the days 18-23 May 2025.

The first day kickstarted with the workshop Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation, where Matteo Dalle Vedove gave a poster presentation about his work on motion policy learning on surfaces. The official presentation of the article MeshDMP: Motion Planning on Discrete Manifolds using Dynamic Movement Primitives was given by Matteo on the first session of Tuesday, where a 5 minute presentation followed a participated poster session. This work presents a novel DMP-based method for learning motion policies on surfaces which relax the requirement of the manifold to be smooth, but only requires a polyhedral mesh.

Elias Fontanari partecipated as contributor at the poster session of the workshop Robot safety under uncertainty from “intangible” specifications, presenting the developed method to enhance safety in Model Predictive Control (MPC) exploiting the employment of parallel computation. The official presentation of the work, titled Parallel-Constraint Model Predictive Control: Exploiting Parallel Computation for Improving Safety was held on Thursday, during the Collision Avoidance session. It was discussed how this novel method improves safety in non-linear MPC relying on learned safe sets and it was followed by a interactive poster session.

The last day has seen the participation of IDRA members to lots of workshop with multiple oral presentation. Elena Basei participated in the poster session for the workshop Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning. She presented preliminary results of her research on proactive motion planning in human-robot collaboration. In her work, she integrated human motion prediction into a motion planning algorithm for robot manipulators, aiming to enhance both safety and efficiency. Elias Fontanari presented the work at the poster session of another workshop entitled Beyond the Lab: Robust Planning and Control in Real World Scenarios. Matteo Dalle Vedove presented his work in The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From innovation to implementation in front of an audience of academia researchers and industrial partners. Finally, Edoardo Lamon presented two works, the first one on the generation of anatomocally accyrate virtual fixtures for chest ultrasound, at the workshop 3rd Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging (RAMI), and the second on LLM-aided knowledge base generation for temporal planning of robotic tasks at the workshop Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning.

Looking forward next ICRA in Vienna, see you there!!