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ICRA and ROSCON 2013 Trip Report
Our trip to ICRA and ROSCON 2013 was a grand success. The highlights:


 * MoveIt! is released: We released MoveIt! from ICRA 2013. Read all about it on the Willow Garage Blog and ros.org
 * The tutorial on Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulation: State-of-the-art Methods and Tools was a huge success. The talks were fantastic and a live demo with the PR2 showed the audience how they could start using MoveIt!
 * The booth demo with MoveIt! attracted a lot of audience interest as well. Thank you for coming to ICRA 2013 and visiting the Willow Garage booth.
 * The ROSCON Keynote talk was the first talk at ROSCON (after the introductory talks) and created a huge buzz around MoveIt!
 * We integrated MoveIt! with the Baxter Research Robot from Rethink Robotics. Read about it on the Willow Garage Blog.

Come see us at ROSCON 2013

 * Sachin Chitta and Ioan Sucan will be giving the keynote talk on MoveIt! at ROSCON at 9:30 AM on Saturday, May 11, 2013.

Come see us at ICRA 2013

 * We are at ICRA 2013 (May 6-10, 2013) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
 * The Willow Garage Booth will have a MoveIt! demo as part of the exhibit. The booth is open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (May 7-9, 2013).
 * Sachin Chitta is giving a talk on "MoveIt!: Software for Rapid Development of New Robotics Applications" at the ICRA Industrial Mobile Assistance Robots Workshop on Monday, May 6, 2013.
 * MoveIt! will be presented at a tutorial on Friday May 10, 2013 in Room Thoma: Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulation: State-of-the-art Methods and Tools, organized by Sachin Chitta, Ioan Sucan, Mark Moll, Lydia Kavraki and Maxim Likhachev.
 * MoveIt! developers have played a part in the following papers:
 * Wednesday, May 8, Session WeAInt, 8:30 AM to 10 AM, Anytime Incremental Planning with E-Graphs, Mike Phillips, Andrew Dornbush, Sachin Chitta and Maxim Likhachev
 * Wednesday, May 8, Session WeF5, 17:15-17:30 PM, Real-Time Collision Detection and Distance Computation on Point Cloud Sensor Data, Jia Pan, Ioan Sucan, Sachin Chitta and Dinesh Manocha
 * Wednesday, May 8, Session WeFInt, 17:15-18:30 PM, A Single Planner for a Composite Task of Approaching, Opening and Navigating through Non-Spring and Spring-Loaded Doors, Steven Gray, Sachin Chitta, Vijay Kumar, Maxim Likhachev
 * Thursday, May 9, Session ThD5, 14:30-14:45 PM, Anytime Solution Optimization for Sampling-Based Motion Planning, Ryan Luna, Ioan Sucan, Mark Moll, Lydia Kavraki

Tutorials

 * ICRA 2013 Tutorial - Friday, May 10, 2013, ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany

Google Summer of Code 2013

 * MoveIt! Was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013.