Online Participation available - 5th Summer School on Singularities of Mechanisms and Robotic Manipulators (SIMERO 2025), September 15-19, 2025, Barcelona

[Andreas Müller]

Dear colleagues and Friends,

I'm pleased to like to let you know that we will offer online participation of the next edition of our summer school. 

The registration cost for the online attendance is 300 EUR.

If you are interested in this option, please go to www.simero.org, click on the registration tab, and then on the link of the registration portal. Then go towards the end of the page and fill up your information under “Request for information or admission”, marking “Request information” (not “Apply for admission” yet). 
Then, under the field “Do you want to make a specific inquiry?”, write “I want to register for online participation”. Then submit the form and you will be contacted with further instructions.

Along with the summer school, this year we will have a SINGULARITY Expo open to the public! We Attendees will explore singularities in their various forms and applications to mechanisms, arts, and architecture. They will also step into black holes!

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The 5th Summer School on Singularities of Mechanisms and Robotic Manipulators (SIMERO 2025) will be organized in Barcelona during the week of September 15-19, 2025.

Website: www.simero.org

The understanding of singularities is crucial for the design, control, and application of robot manipulators. Singularities are of great interest for the robotics and mechanisms theory communities, as they govern the general kinematic behavior of many systems. Besides the theoretical significance of a careful study of singular phenomena, it has an enormous practical value. This course introduces attendees to milestone results, key methods, and main problems in singularity analysis. The lectures provide a wide overview of cutting-edge work and focus in more detail on a few advanced topics with practical and theoretical significance. 

Each part contains lectures on several closely related topics. However, connections are also made between the parts and common themes are identified and explored from different viewpoints. This reinforces both learning about the phenomena and an understanding of their importance, while providing the participants with varied conceptual and methodological tools applicable to the problems at hand.

Topics:
    Definition and Classification
    Singularity Identification
    Singularity Avoidance
    Design for singularities
    Local and global topology of the Singularity Set and Configuration-Space
    Mathematical Tools and Formalisms
    Application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods
    Application to the analysis of parallel, serial and continuum robotic systems.

Lecturers:
    Sébastien Briot
    Marco Carricato
    Manfred Husty
    Jean-Pierre Merlet
    Andreas Müller
    Alba Perez-Gracia
    Mark Plecnik
    Federico Thomas
    Philippe Wenger
    Dimiter Zlatanov

For more information about the topics, venue and registration, please see the information on the webpage www.simero.org.

Contact:
    alba.per...@upc.edu
    a.mu...@jku.at

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Müller
Head of the Institute of Robotics

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