Dear ROS-I community,

We cordially invite you to the following events:



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ROS-Industrial Conference and Consortium Europe kick-off
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at Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart, Germany



June 26: ROS-Industrial conference (public)

June 27: ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe Kick-Off (restricted to RIC-members)


Conference Objectives
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The objective of the ROS-Industrial conference is to bring together representatives from academia and industry to exchange experiences on application development with ROS and clarify the needs of industry with respect to ROS-Industrial. The participants have the opportunity to obtain most recent information on current activities, already achieved results and future goals of the ROS-Industrial community.



Conference Topics:

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- Developments, Trends, Technologies in the ROS-Industrial community

- Examples of successful transfer of ROS components established in research into industrial applications

- Current ROS-Industrial Projects (hosted by the ROS-Industrial Consortium so far)

Target Audience
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The conference addresses in particular system integrators that aim at providing flexible, economic and manufacturer independent automation solutions, ROS-Industrial developers in research and industry, executive personal of small and medium enterprises as well as R&D divisions of larger companies in the field of automation, logistics and production.



Speakers

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-          Urko Esnaola, Tecnalia

-          Andrija Feher, Synapticon GmbH

-          Clay Flannigan, Southwest Research Institute

-          Joshua Hampp, Fraunhofer IPA

-          Gijs van der Hoorn, TU Delft Robotics Institute

-          Berend Küpers, ALTEN Nederland

-          Fabrizio Romanelli, Comau S.p.A. Robotics

-          Dirk Thomas, Open Source Robotics Foundation

-          Elisa Tosello, University of Padova

-          Florian Weißhardt, Fraunhofer IPA



General Chair

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Martin Hägele, Fraunhofer IPA



Session Chair

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Ulrich Reiser, Fraunhofer IPA



Registration
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Register for ROS-Industrial conference until June 18, 2014:

http://ric-eu.rosindustrial.org/2nd-ros-industrial-conference/



Link to Consortium:

http://ric-eu.rosindustrial.org/consortium/


Looking forward to meeting you at both events!

Best Regards,
Ulrich Reiser and Florian Weisshardt