ROBOTICS IN THE
FOREST WORKSHOP
HOTEL HYATT REGENCY
1255 Rue Jeanne-Mance
DETAILED SCHEDULE
OVATION ROOM, LEVEL 5
APRIL
TIME
5:00 – 7:00
5:00 – 7:00
TOPIC
Registration – Foyer
Icebreaker cocktail
APRIL
TIME
7:00 – 12:00
7:30 – 8:30
8:30
8:40 – 9:00
TOPIC / PRESENTERS
Registration
Continental breakfast – Foyer
Introduction & welcome – Jean-François Gingras, FPInnovations
Robert Hall, UBC
Advanced technologies in mining mobile equipment
Questions & discussion
Informal discussion with forest industry representatives
(Michael Martel, Resolute F.P.; Marcos Wichert, Fibria Pulp)
Greg Dudek, McGill University
The NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN)
Questions & discussion
Health break
Clément Gosselin, Laval University
Opportunities for robotic systems in unstructured environments + questions & discussion
Greg Baiden, Penguin ASI
Questions & discussion
Martin Englund, SkogForsk
The human-machine interaction program
Lunch buffet
Ola Lindroos, SLU – Moderator for afternoon
Cameron Ower, MDA
Overview of MDA robotics & space technologies + questions & discussion
Philippe Giguère, Laval University
Environment & self-learning systems + questions & discussion
21
22
9:00 – 9:10
9:10 – 9:45
9:45 – 10:05
10:05 – 10:15
10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 1:00
1:00 – 4:15
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
APRIL
22
2:00 – 2:30
Marko Paakunainen, Timo Kappi, John Deere, JD’s intelligent boom control system
+ questions & discussion
2:30 – 2:50
2:50 – 3:20
Health break
Shahram Tafazoli, Motion Metrics
Advanced technologies from Motion Metrics + questions & discussion
Matthew Fordham, ARA
Feller-buncher tele-operation… removing the risk + questions & discussion
General discussion – key points from the presentations
Wrap-up
Dinner - Guest speaker: Maria Hedblom, Skogstekniskaklustret
The Umeä forest technology cluster– Ovation room
3:20 – 3:50
3:50 – 4:10
4:10 – 4:15
7:00 – 9:00
APRIL
23
TIME
7:30 – 8:30
8:30 – 8:40
8:40 – 9:10
9:10 – 9:40
9:40 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:00
2:00 – 4:00
TOPIC / PRESENTERS
Continental breakfast - Foyer
Introduction & welcome – Jean-François Gingras, FPInnovations
Facilitator for the morning – Jim Hunt, FPInnovations
Doug Pitt, CWFC
Remote sensing technologies to provide enhanced forest biometric and ground
surface information
Stewart Baillie, Unmanned Systems Canada
Overview of UAV & UTV technologies
Nariman Sepehri, University of Manitoba
Tip-over stability and prevention in heavy mobile machines
Health break
Nathalie Renaud, Institut National D’Optique,
INO’s optical sensors for tele-operations
Final discussion – Promising future pathways for advanced technologies in forest machines
Facilitator – Luc Lebel, Laval University
Optional post-workshop tour of McGill University Robotics laboratories (travel by taxi)
REGISTRATION DESK WILL BE OPEN :
April 21 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
April 22 7:00 am - 12:00 pm
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