1. EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on APPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE- DRIVEN ROBOTS March 19, 2014 INNOROBO Lyon, Cité des congrès, France

2. Welcome!! First issue of this event Main goals: – Dedicated to the development and the application of parallel and cable-driven robots, – With the aim of promoting interactions between academia and industry, – To create stronger (and even new) links between academia and industry around the considered workshop topics To achieve these goals, our purpose was to take advantage of the INNOROBO event! 19/03/2014EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on APPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE-DRIVEN ROBOTS2

3. Some key figures Number of participants: 40 Number of academic / industry members: 24 / 16 1 day with: – 2 plenary sessions – 2 poster sessions for a total of 14 poster contributions – 1 debate with 5 companies coming from 3 EU countries Represented countries (when considering all participants): 19/03/2014EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on APPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE-DRIVEN ROBOTS3

4. Program 09:00 ­– Workshop opening 09:10 ­– Plenary session 1: State of the art on parallel robots Speaker: François Pierrot, LIRMM, France 10:10 ­– Plenary session 2: State of the art on cable-driven parallel robots Speaker: Andreas Pott, IPA, Fraunhofer, Germany 11:10 ­– Coffee break 11:30 ­– Poster session 1 12:30 ­– Lunch 14:30 ­– Debate between researchers, manufacturers and end-users with the companies: Tecnalia (Spain / France), Symétrie (France), GIMA Spa (Italy), PI France (France), IRT Jules Verne (France) 16:30 ­– Coffee break 17:00 ­– Poster session 2 18:30 ­– End of the workshop 19/03/2014EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on APPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE-DRIVEN ROBOTS4

5. Acknowledgements 19/03/2014EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on APPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE-DRIVEN ROBOTS5 Our plenary lecturers: Andreas Pott and François Pierrot The debate partners: Tecnalia, Symétrie, GIMA Spa, PI France, and IRT Jules Verne All poster contributors, and all participants!! The other members of the organizing committee: Stéphane Caro, Marco Carricato, and Marc Gouttefarde The French Research Funding Agency (ANR) and the ANR project ARROW and the French clusters for competitiveness: EMC2 and Viaméca

6. Additional information 19/03/2014EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on APPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE-DRIVEN ROBOTS6 Please don’t forget to give us your email address for receiving the poster abstracts! Enjoy the workshop! Workshop contact: Sébastien BRIOT Email: Sebastien.Briot@irccyn.ec-nantes.frSebastien.Briot@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr