March 31, 2016

RMC Inauguration

New Building of RMC

After the foundation stone was laid in spring 2013, the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and the Institute of System Dynamics and Control moved into the new premises of the RMC in summer 2015. With space for 300 colleagues and 80 students, the new building will foster closer cooperation between the two institutes within the RMC. The new RMC building will become the incubator for new ideas and discoveries in robotics and beyond.

On 15 April 2016, the RMC building will officially be inaugurated.

Programme

  
9.00 a.m.
Registration
9.30 a.m.
Official inauguration of the building
 
(in German)
 
 
 

Welcome
Hansjörg Dittus, DLR Executive Board Member for Space Research and Technology

Welcome
Ilse Aigner, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria

Welcome
Holger Schlienkamp, Head of section at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Introduction to the institutes at RMC
Prof. Dr. Alin Albu-Schäffer, Director Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, and Johann Bals, Director Institute of System Dynamics and Control

An overview of the RMC: from concept to concrete
Stefan Birk, Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel Architekten

Opening ceremony of the RMC

Coffee break

 
 
11.00 a.m.
Laboratory tour
 
(in German and English)
 
 
1.00 p.m.
Lunch buffet /lunch break
 
 
2.00 p.m.
Scientific Colloquium
 
(in English)
 
„Robotics and Automation for Future Society“
 
 
6.00 p.m.
Party at the RMC

Colloquium Speakers

 

Antonio Bicchi (University of Pisa, IIT)
Soft robotics for human cooperation and rehabilitation

Michael Beetz (University of Bremen)
Robotics, „big data“, cognitive computing – AI-enabled robotics at the intersection of disruptive technologies

Tamim Asfour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
On grasping and balancing in humanoid robotics

Andre Schiele (European Space Agency, Delft University of Technology)
Exploration telerobotics – enabling the future of human exploration

Wolfram Burgard (University of Freiburg)
Probabilistic techniques for robot navigation

Bernd Liepert (KUKA)
4 robotic revolutions – a view on the future of robotics

Hilding Elmqvist ( Mogram AB, Lund)
Model-based control in cyber-physical systems

Nhan Nguyen (NASA Ames Research Center)
Progress in NASA flight control research for next-generation aircraft performance and safety

Contact

Lioba Suchenwirth

Public Relations
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
Institute Development and Central Management
Münchener Straße 20, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling
Tel: +49 8153 28-4292