Technical Program
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Wednesday Aug 16:
| 8:30-8:40 | Opening |
Session I |
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| 8:40-9:30 | Invited Talk: Hiroshi Ishiguro
Android Science - New framework for interactive robots |
| 9:30-9:55 | Haptic Playback: Simultaneously Displaying Force and Position Data to Teach Sensorimotor Skills
M. Corno, M. Zefran |
| 9:55-10:30 | Coffee Break |
Session II |
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| 10:30-10:55 | Optimal Rules for Programmed Stochastic Self-Assembly
E. Klavins, S. Burden and N. Napp |
| 10:55-11:20 | Sliding Autonomy for Complex Coordinated Multi-Robot Tasks: Analysis & Experiments
F. Heger, S. Singh |
| 11:20-12:00 | Spotlights |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
Session III |
Chair: Dieter Fox |
| 1:30-2:20 | Invited Talk: Jovan Popovic
Semantic Models of Shape |
| 2:20-2:45 | Improving Robot Navigation Through Self-Supervised Online Learning
B. Sofman, E. Lin, J. Bagnell, N. Vandapel, A. Stentz |
| 2:45-3:10 | Self-supervised Monocular Road Detection in Desert Terrain
H. Dahlkamp, A. Kaehler, D. Stavens, S. Thrun, G. Bradski |
| 3:10-3:35 | Enhancing Supervised Terrain Classification with Predictive Unsupervised Learning
M. Happold, M. Ollis, N. Johnson |
| 3:35-4:00 | Coffee Break |
Session IV |
Chair: Oliver Brock |
| 4:00-4:25 | Distributed Coverage Control with Sensory Feedback for Networked Robots
M. Schwager, J. McLurkin, D. Rus |
| 4:25-4:50 | Integrated Planning and Control for Convex-bodied Nonholonomic systems using Local Feedback Control Policies
D. Conner, H. Choset, A. Rizzi |
| 4:50-5:15 | On Comparing the Power of Mobile Robots
J. O'Kane, S. LaValle |
| 5:15-7:00 | Dinner (No planned event) |
| 7:00-10:00 | Poster session |
Thursday August 17:
Session V |
Chair: Gaurav Sukhatme |
| 8:30-9:20 | Invited Talk: Takeo Kanade
Computer vision: where are we? |
| 9:20-9:45 | Exploiting Locality in SLAM by Nested Dissection
P. Krauthausen, A. Kipp, F. Dellaert |
| 9:45-10:10 | Unified Inverse Depth Parametrization for Monocular SLAM
J. Montiel, J. Civera, A. Davison |
| 10:10-10:45 | Coffee Break |
Session VI |
Chair: George Pappas |
| 10:45-11:10 | Qualitative Hybrid Control of Dynamic Bipedal Walking
S. Ramamoorthy, B. Kuipers |
| 11:10-11:35 | Gait Regulation and Feedback on a Robotic Climbing Hexapod
G. Haynes, A. Rizzi |
| 11:35-12:00 | Slip Prediction Using Visual Information
A. Angelova, L. Matthies, D. Helmick, P. Perona |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
Session VII |
Chair: Eric Klavins |
| 1:30-2:20 | Invited Talk: Tom Daniel
Nature's Robots: Control and dynamics in insect flight |
| 2:20-2:45 | Pursuit and evasion in arbitrary dimensions
R. Ghrist, S. Alexander, R. Bihsop |
| 2:45-3:10 | A Unified Framework to Represent Physically Cooperating Mobile Robots and Other Robotic Systems
A. Deshpande, J. Luntz |
| 3:10-3:35 | An Equilibrium Point based Model Unifying Movement Control in Humanoids
X. Gu, D. Ballard |
| 3:35-4:00 | Coffee Break |
Session VIII |
Chair: Cyrill Stachniss |
| 4:00-4:25 | A new inlier identification scheme for robust estimation problems
W. Zhang, J. Kosecka |
| 4:25-4:50 | A probabilistic Exemplar Approach to Combine Laser and Vision for Person Tracking
D. Schulz |
| 4:50-5:15 | Outdoor Path Labeling Using Polynomial Mahalanobis Distance
G. Grudic, J. Mulligan |
| 5:15-5:45 | Probabilistic Terrain Analysis For High-Speed Desert Driving
S. Thrun, M. Montemerlo, A. Aron |
| 5:45-7:00 | GRASP tour |
| 7:00-10:00 | Banquet
Speaker: Ron Kurjanowicz DARPA Grand Challenge Location: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts |
Friday August 18:
Session IX |
Chair: Stefan Schaal |
| 8:30-9:20 | Invited Talk: Yoshi Nakamura
Let Motion Patterns Speak |
| 9:20-9:45 | Multi-loop Position Analysis via Iterated Linear Programming
J. Porta, L. Ros, F. Thomas |
| 9:45-10:10 | Inverse Kinematics for a Serial Chain with Fully Rotatable Joints
L. Han, L. Rudolph |
| 10:10-10:45 | Coffee Break |
Session X |
Chair: Vijay Kumar |
| 10:45-11:10 | A Gravity Balancing Passive Exoskeleton for the Human Leg
S. Agrawal, S. Banala, A. Fattah |
| 11:10-11:35 | Design methodologies for central pattern generators: an application to crawling humanoids
L. Righetti, A. Ijspeert |
| 11:35-12:00 | Dynamic Imitation in a Humanoid Robot through Nonparametric Probabilistic Inference
D. Grimes, R. Chalodhorn, R. Rao |
| 12:00-12:05 | Best student paper award presentation
(Sponsored by Springer on behalf of the journal Autonomous Robots) |
| 12:05-12:10 | Closing |
| 1:30-6:00 | Workshops |
Saturday August 19:
| 8:30-6:00 | Workshops |
Poster Session
- Computing Smooth Feedback Plans Over Cylindrical Algebraic Decompositions
S. Lindemann, S. LaValle - Analytical Characterization of the Accuracy of SLAM without Absolute Orientation Measurements
A. Mourikis, S. Roumeliotis - The Data Association Kalman Filter (DAKF)
B. Schumitsch, S. Thrun, L. Guibas, K. Olukotun - Adaptive Dynamics with Efficient Contact Handling for Articulated Robots
R. Gayle, M. Lin, D. Manocha - Generation of Point-contact State Space between Strictly Curved Objects
P. TANG, J. Xiao - A Bayesian Approach to Nonlinear Parameter Identification for Rigid Body Dynamics
J. Ting, M. Mistry, J. Peters, S. Schaal, J. Nakanishi - Learning Operational Space Control
J. Peters, S. Schaal - The Iterated Sigma Point Filter with Applications to Long Range Stereo
G. Sibley, G. Sukhatme, L. Matthies - Environment Identification for a Running Robot Using Inertial and Actuator Cues
P. Giguere, G. Dudek, S. Saunderson, C. Prahacs - Elastic Roadmaps: Globally Task-Consistent Motion for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
Y. Yang, O. Brock - Responsive robot gaze to interaction partner
Y. Yoshikawa, K. Shinozawa, H. Ishiguro, N. Hagita, T. Miyamoto - Constant-factor approximation algorithms for the Traveling Salesperson Problem for Dubins' vehicle
K. Savla, E. Frazzoli, F. Bullo - Gaussian Processes for Signal Strength-Based Location Estimation
B. Ferris, D. Haehnel, D. Fox