IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018)
The following papers were presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018) from 1 – 5 October in Madrid, Spain:
- Ganesh Iyer, M.S student working under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna from RRC presented a paper on CalibNet: Geometrically Supervised Extrinsic Calibration using 3D Spatial Transformer Networks.
- Junaid Ahmed Ansari, M.S student working under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna from RRC presented a paper on The Earth ain’t Flat: Monocular Reconstruction of Vehicles on Steep and Graded Roads from a Moving Camera.
IROS 2018 is the flagship conference in robotics and the biggest international event for researchers, companies and end-users. The conference had plenary and short keynote presentations, contributed papers sessions in a mixed oral/interactive format, workshops and tutorials, numerous robotic challenges, exhibition with live demos, and several forums (governmental, industrial, societal, culture & science fiction, and developing countries, among others), as well as entrepreneurship and educational activities.
The focus of IROS 2018 was on advanced technological innovations (human-robot interaction, humanoids, social robots, autonomous systems, intelligent perception), as well as on societal aspects (legal issues, regulations, robotics ethics, human–robot co-existence, employment).
The theme of this years conference was “Towards a Robotic Society” due to the fact that robotics will change our lives in the near future by creating new human-robot relationships which will lead to a new robotic society.