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Time
Speaker
Title
9:50-10:00 Chad Jenkins, Brown Welcome and opening remarks
10:00-10:20
Steve Berard, RPI An MPEC Formulation for Parameter Identification of Complementarity Systems
slides
10:20-10:40
Kaijen Hsiao, MIT
Manipulation under uncertainty
slides | movies
10:40-11:00
Break

11:00-11:20
Richard Pluto/Tim Schwartz, Union
Design and Evaluation of a low cost hand for dexterous manipulation
11:20-11:40
Binh Nguyen, RPI Approximation errors in time-stepping methods for systems in contact
slides
11:40-12:00
Jacqueline Kenney, UMass-Amherst
Interactive Segmentation for Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
slides | movies
12:00-1:30
LUNCH BREAK
Lunch @ CIT 4th floor atrium and demos by CS Robotics Students
1:30-1:50 Matt Bell, Dartmouth
Knot Tying with Single-piece fixtures
slides | movies
1:50-2:10
Onur Tekdas, RPI
Robotic routers
slides
2:10-2:30 Nikhil Karnad, RPI
Bearing-only pursuit
slides
2:30-2:50
Break

2:50-3:10
Shiraj Sen, UMass-Amherst
Hierarchical Mechanisms for Robot Programming
slides | movies
3:10-3:30
Matt Stein, RWU
The iHands project
slides
3:30-3:50
Eric Meisner, RPI Controller design for Human Robot Interaction
slides
3:50-4:10
Break
4:10-4:30
Andrei Fortuna, Dartmouth Generalizing Dubins and Reeds-Shepp trajectories: time-optimal trajectories for bounded-velocity mobile robots
slides
4:30-4:50
Justin Hart, Yale
Estimating the kinematics of unseen joints that affect the vision system
slides
4:50-5:10
Dan Grollman, Brown Sparse Incremental Learning for Interactive Robot Control Policy Estimation
5:10
Chad Jenkins
Closing Remarks