Tuesday, August 1st (VCH-Atrium)
| 17:00 | Welcome and registration gathering |
Wednesday, August 2nd (GHK-2320)
| 08:15 | Registration |
| 08:50 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:00 | Keynote address I - Prof. Sunil K. Agrawal |
Displacement Analysis I
| 09:50 | Direct Kinematics of CDPR with Extra Cable Orientation Sensors: the 2 and 3 Cables Case with Perfect Measurement and Ideal or Elastic Cables (J.-P. Merlet) |
| 10:10 | Improving the Forward Kinematics of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots Through Cable Angle Sensors (X. Garant, A. Campeau-Lecours, P. Cardou, C. Gosselin) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
Modelling I
| 10:50 | Manipulator Deflection for Optimum Tension of Cable-Driven Robots with Parameter Variations (L. Notash) |
| 11:10 | Sensitivity Analysis of the Elasto-Geometrical Model of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (S. Baklouti, S. Caro, E. Courteille) |
| 11:30 | CASPR-ROS: A Generalised Cable Robot Software in ROS for Hardware (J. Eden, C. Song, Y. Tan, D. Oetomo, D. Lau) |
| 12:00 | Lunch (ABP-Cafeteria) |
Trajectory Planning and Control I
| 13:30 | Rest-to-Rest Trajectory Planning for Planar Underactuated Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (E. Idà, A. Berti, T. Bruckmann, Marco Carricato) |
| 13:50 | Dynamically-Feasible Elliptical Trajectories for Fully Constrained 3-DOF Cable-Suspended Parallel Robots (G. Mottola, C. Gosselin, M. Carricato) |
| 14:10 | Dynamic Transition Trajectory Planning of Three-dof Cable-Suspended Parallel Robots (X. Jiang, C. Gosselin) |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break |
Applications I
| 14:50 | Preliminary Running and Performance Test of the Huge Cable Robot of FAST Telescope (H. Li, J. Sun, G. Pan, Q. Yang) |
| 15:10 | On the Improvements of a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Achieving Additive Manufacturing for Construction (J.-B. Izard, A. Dubor, P.-E. Herv ́e, E. Cabay, D. Culla, M. Rodriguez, M. Barrado) |
| 15:30 | Inverse Kinematics for a Novel Rehabilitation Robot for Lower Limbs (A. Badi, M. Saad, G. Gauthier, P. Archambault) |
Social Activities
| 16:00 | Quebec City tour by bus |
| 18:00 | Cocktail reception (Château Frontenac - Saint-Louis room) |
Thursday, August 3rd (GHK-2320)
Displacement Analysis II
| 08:50 | A New Approach to the Direct Geometrico-Static Problem of Cable Suspended Robots Using Kinematic Mapping (M. Husty, J. Schadlbauer, P. Zsombor-Murray) |
| 09:10 | Initial Length and Pose Calibration for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots with Relative Length Feedback (D. Lau) |
| 09:30 | Static Analysis and Dimensional Optimization of a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (M. Newman, A. Zygielbaum, B. Terry) |
Modelling II
| 09:50 | Assumed-Mode-Based Dynamic Model for Cable Robots with Non-Straight Cables (J. I. Ayala Cuevas, E. Laroche, O. Piccin) |
| 10:10 | Modelling of Flexible Cable-Driven Parallel Robots using a Rayleigh-Ritz Approach (H. A. Godbole, R. J. Caverly, J. Forbes) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
Workspace Analysis
| 10:50 | Determination of the Cable Span and Cable Deflection of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (A. Pott) |
| 11:10 | Geometric Determination of the Cable-Cylinder Interference Regions in the Workspace of a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (A. Martin, S. Caro, P. Cardou) |
| 11:30 | Twist Feasibility Analysis of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (S. Lessanibahri, M. Gouttefarde, S. Caro, P. Cardou) |
| 12:00 | Lunch (ABP-Cafeteria) |
Trajectory Planning and Control II
| 13:30 | Transverse Vibration Control in Planar Cable-Driven Robotic Manipulators (M. Rushton, A. Khajepour) |
| 13:50 | Application of a Differentiator-Based Adaptive Super-Twisting Controller for a Redundant Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (C. Schenk, C. Masone, H. Bülthoff, A. Pott) |
| 14:10 | Randomized Kinodynamic Planning for Cable-Suspended Parallel Robots (R. Bordalba, J. M. Porta, L. Ros) |
| 14:30 | Coffee break |
Design
| 14:50 | On the Design of a Three-DOF Cable-Suspended Parallel Robot based on a Parallelogram Arrangement of the Cables (D.-S. Vu, E. Barnett, A.-M. Zaccarin, C. Gosselin) |
| 15:10 | On Improving Stiffness of Cable Robots (C. Nelson) |
| 15:30 | Optimal Design of a High-Speed Pick-and-Place Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (Z. Zhang, Z. Shao, L. Wang, A. J. Shih) |
Social Activities
| 16:00 | Guided tour of the Huron-Wendat Museum (departure - parking lot in front of ) |
| 17:30 | Cocktail reception (Hôtel-Musée Premières Nations) |
| 18:30 | Conference Banquet (Restaurant la Traite) |
Friday, August 4th (GHK-2320)
| 08:30 | Keynote address II: Prof. Meyer Nahon |
Modelling III
| 09:30 | A Polymer Cable Creep Modeling for a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot in a Heavy Payload Application (J. Piao, X. Jin, E.-P. Choi, J.-O. Park, C.-S. Kim, J. Jung |
| 09:50 | Bending Fatigue Strength and Lifetime of Fiber Ropes (M. Wehr, A. Pott, K.-H. Wehking) |
| 10:10 | Bending Cycles and Cable Properties of Polymer Fiber Cables for Fully Constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (V. Schmidt, A. Pott) |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
Tension Distribution
| 10:50 | A Fast Algorithm for Wrench Exertion Capability Computation (G. Boschetti, C. Passarini, A. Trevisani, D. Zanotto) |
| 11:10 | Tension Distribution Algorithm for Mobile Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (T. Rasheed, P. Long, D. Marquez-Gamez, S. Caro) |
| 11:30 | Improvement of cable tension observability through a new cable driving unit design (M. Rognant, E. Courteille) |
| 12:00 | Lunch (ABP-Cafeteria) |
Applications II
| 13:30 | On the Design of a Novel Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Capable of Large Rotation About One Axis (A. Fortin-Côté, C. Faure, L. Bouyer, B. J. McFadyen, C. Mercier, D. Laurendeau, M. Bonenfant, P. Cardou, C. Gosselin) |
| 13:50 | Concept Studies of Automated Construction Using Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (T. Bruckmann, C. Reichert, M. Meik, P. Lemmen, A. Spengler, H. Mattern, M. König) |
| 14:10 | Design and Analysis of a Novel Cable-Driven Haptic Master Device for Planar Grasping (K. Jadhao, P. Lambert, T. Bruckmann, J. L. Herder) |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break |
Lab Tour and Closing Remarks
| 14:50 | Tour of the Laboratoire de robotique (departure from GHK-2320, rooms PLT-3702, PLT-00370, PLT-00136) |
| 16:30 | Closing remarks (PLT-Main hall) |
Tuesday, August 1st (VCH-Atrium)
| 17:00 | Welcome and registration gathering |
Tuesday, August 1st
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