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2022 NRI-FRR PI Meeting Short Talks

Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6

All times listed in Eastern Time Zone.

Session 1: Tuesday, April 19, 11:00am - 11:45am
# Lead PI Award Title Video Award #
1

John Zimmerman

NRI: FND: Human-Robot Collaboration with Distributed and Embodied Intelligence

1734456

2

Junaed Sattar

NRI: Collaborative Research: Autonomous Quadrotors for 3D Modeling and Inspection of Outdoor Infrastructure

1637875

3

Masayoshi Tomizuka

NRI: FND: Safe and Efficient Robot Collaboration System (SERoCS) for Next Generation Intelligent Industrial Co-Robots

1734109

6

Wanliang Shan
Carmel Majidi

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Soft Active Contact Pads with Tunable Stiffness and Adhesion for Customizable Robotic Grasping

2006430
1830362

7

Panagiotis Tsiotras

AstroSLAM - A Robust and Reliable Visual Localization and Pose Estimation Architecture for Space Robots in Orbit

2101250

8

Ajay Sharda

NRI: INT: COLLAB: An autonomous insect Sense, Identify, and Manage PLatform (SIMPL) to advance crop protection strategies

USDA

9

Matthew Spenko

NRI: FND: The Urban Design and Policy Implications of Ubiquitous Robots and Navigation Safety

1830642

10

Marcia O'Malley

NRI: FND: COLLAB: Intuitive, Wearable Haptic Devices for Communication with Ubiquitous Robots

1830146

11

Sam Burden

NRI: FND: COLLAB: Design of dynamic multibehavioral robots: new tools to consider design tradeoff and enable more capable robotic systems

1924303

12

Hyun Soo Park

Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Dense 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Actors in Natural Environments using Multiple Flying Cameras

2022894

13

Ann Majewicz Fey

NRI: FND: Customizable Haptic Co-Robots For Training Emergency Surgical Procedures

2102250

14

Robert Gregg

NRI: FND: COLLAB: Optimal Design of Robust Compliant Actuators for Ubiquitous Co-Robots

1953908

15

Laszlo Jeni

NRI: INT: A New Paradigm for Geometric Reasoning through Structure from Category

1925281

16

Wenlong Zhang

NRI: FND: Scalable and Customizable Intent Inference and Motion Planning for Socially-Adept Autonomous Vehicles

1925403

17

Dieter Fox

Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Object Manipulation

2024057

18

Howard Choset

NRI: INT: MANUFACTURING USA: COLLAB: In-Situ Collaborative Robotics in Confined Spaces

1734360
1734461

20

Panagiotis Artemiadis

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Anthropomorphic Robotic Ankle Prosthesis with Programmable Materials

1830256

21

Nuno Vasconcelos

NRI: FND: Towards Scalable and Self-Aware Robotic Perception

1924937

Session 2: Tuesday, April 19, 4:30pm - 5:15pm
# Principal Investigator Award Title Video Award #
1

Kris Hauser

NRI: INT: Customizing Semi-Autonomous Nursing Robots Using Human Expertise

2025782

2

Sawyer Fuller

Visual Flight Control for the Very Smallest Aerial Vehicles

2054850

3

Zhaozheng Yin

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Manufacturing USA: Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration for Smart Factory

1954548

5

Chowdhary Girish

NRI:INT: Multipurpose Dexterous Soft and Continuum Arms for Compact Ag-bots

USDA 2019-67021-28989
6

Robin Murphy

RAPID/Collaborative Research: Data Collection for Robot-Oriented Disaster Site Modeling at Champlain Towers South Collapse

2140451

7

Nicholas Fey

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Muscle Ultrasound Sensing for Intuitive Control of Robotic Leg Prostheses

2054343

8

Elliot Hawkes

CAREER: Physical Principles and Applications of Plant-Inspired Tip Growth for Robotics

1944816

9

Yu Zhang

EAGER: Reconciling Model Discrepancies in Human-Robot Teams

1844524

10

Aaron Steinfeld

NRI: FND: Mutually Aware Social Navigation

1734361

11

Robert Howe

NRI: FND: Robust Grasping by Integrating Machine Learning with Physical Models

1924984

12

Mohammad Khalid Jawed

NRI: FND: Physics-based training of robots for manipulation of ropes and clothes

1925360

13

Daniel Aukes

CAREER: Dynamic Modeling and Fabrication of Compliant Material Systems for On-Demand Specialist Robots

1944789

15 Naomi Fitter Assistive Child-Robot Interventions for Infants with Motor Disabilities

2024950

16

Eric Frew

Collaborative Research: NRI: Dispersed Autonomy for Marsupial Aerial Robot Teams

2133141

17

Evgueni Filipov

Origami for Dexterity in Miniature Manipulation and Testing

2054148

18

David Cappelleri

NRI: Mobile Microrobots for Precision Medicine

NIH

19

Raymond Mooney

NRI: FND: Improving Robot Learning from Feedback and Demonstration using Natural Language

1925082

20

Ye Zhao

NRI: FND: Robust and Scalable Planning for Agile and Collaborative Robot Teammates in Complex Environments

1924978

21

Karydis Konstantinos

NRI: Integrated Soft Wearable Robotics Technology to Assist Arm Movement of Infants with Physical Impairments

2133084

Session 3: Wednesday, April 20, 11:00am - 11:45am
# Principal Investigator Award Title Video Award #

1

Reza Ehsani

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Distributed co-Robots for Strawberry Harvesting

1924662

2

Alberto Quattrini Li

Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping

2024541

3

Yogesh Girdhar

NRI: An Ecologically Curious Robot for Monitoring Coral Reef Biodiversity

2133029

5

Deepak Pathak

Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Scalable, Customizable, Robot Learning with Humans

2024594

6

Nina Mahmoudian

NRI: Co-Robots to Enhance Motivation and Self-efficacy in Formal STEM Education

2133028

7

Wenzhen Yuan

NRI: FND: Collaborative Research: DeepSoRo: High-dimensional Proprioceptive and Tactile Sensing and Modeling for Soft Grippers

2024646

8

Alan Kuntz

NRI: Liquid-Solid Metal for Embodied Intelligence in Semi-Soft, Human-Collaborative Robots

2133027

9

Tomonari Furukawa

Collaborative Research: NRI: Ocean-Powered Robots for Autonomous Offshore Aquaculture

USDA

10

Jana Kosecka

NRI: FND: Self-supervised Object Discovery, Detection and Visual Object Search

1925231

11

Paula Bylaska-Davies

Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Transparent and intuitive teleoperation interfaces for the future nursing robots and workers

2024689

12

Abdeslam Boularias

NRI: Robust and Efficient Physics-based Learning and Reasoning in Degraded Environments

2132972

13

Robert Wood

NRI: FND: COLLAB: A Foundational Approach to Muscle Actuators that Lowers Barriers to Muscle-Powered Robotics Research

1830291

14

Elaine Short

NRI: Mutually Assistive Robotics

2132887

15

Mark Yim

Collaborative Research: NRI: FND: Flying Swarm for Safe Human Interaction in Unstructured Environments

2024692

16

Matthew Travers

NRI: INT: Self-Assembly of Modular Robots Constructed using DNA: Modeling and Manufacturing Nanostructures with Graph Neural Networks and DNA Origami

2132886

17

Efstathios Bakolas

NRI: FND: Efficient algorithms for safety guiding mobile robots through spaces populated by humans and mobile intelligent machines and robots

1924790

18

Satyandra Gupta

NRI: FND: Human-Guided Robot Teams for Manipulating Large Flexible Sheets in Manufacturing Applications

1925084

19

Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

NRI/Collaborative Research: Robot-Assisted Feeding: Towards Efficient, Safe, and Personalized Caregiving Robots

2132846

20

Woon-Hong Yeo

Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Customizable Lower-Limb Wearable Robot using Soft-Wearable Sensor to Assist Occupational Workers

2024742

21

Sebastian Elbaum

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Raining Drones: Mid-Air Release & Recovery of Atmospheric Sensing Systems

1924777

Session 4: Wednesday, April 20, 4:30pm - 5:15pm
# Principal Investigator Award Title Video Award #

1

Sehoon Ha

NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: Buoyancy-assisted Collaborative Robots That are Cheap, Safe, and Never Fall Down

2024768

2

Xiaolin Hu

Autonomy and Safety for Teamed Human-Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Fast Evolving Wildfire Management

USDA

3

Mrinal Kumar

Collaborative Research: NRI: Integration of Autonomous UAS in Wildland Fire Management

2132799

4

Alexander Leonessa
Jing Du

NRI: INT: Collaborative Research: ForceBot: Customizable Robotic Platform for Body-Scale Physical Interaction Simulation in Virtual Reality

2024784

5

Prashant Doshi

NRI: FND: Robust Inverse Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration

1830421

7

Beiwen Li

NRI/Collaborative Research: Robotic Disassembly of High-Precision Electronic Devices

2132773

8

Laurel Riek

TAILORED: Training for Independent Living through Observant Robots and Design

1915734

9

Hao Su

NRI: FND: Soft Wearable Robots for Injury Prevention and Performance Augmentation

1830613

10

Shuran Song

NRI: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Robot Assistants

2132519

11

Anirban Mazumdar

NRI: FND: Rapid Operator Awareness via Mobile Robotics (ROAMR), Customizable Human Safety using Mobile and Wearable Co-Robots

1830498

12

Winslow Burleson

EAGER: Cyberlearning with Co-Robotic Teachable Agents

2030441

13

Dongming Gan

Discrete Variable Stiffness Actuators with Fast Stiffness Switch for Safe Human-Robot Interaction

2131711

14

Lydia Kavraki

NRI: FND: Robotic Collaboration through Scalable Reactive Synthesis

1830549

16

Kirstin Petersen

CAREER: Environmentally-Mediated Coordination in Natural and Robot Swarms

2042411

17

MinJun Kim

Collaborative Research: Magnetically-Controlled Modules with Reconfigurable Self-Assembly and Disassembly

2130775

18

Mac Schwager

NRI: FND: COLLAB: Distributed Semantically-Aware Tracking and Planning for Fleets of Robots

1830402

19

Anirudha Majumdar

CAREER: Generalization and Safety Guarantees for Learning-Based Control of Robots

2044149

20

Eleonora Botta

Modeling, Design and Operation of Robotic Tether-Net Systems for Reliable Capture of Targets

2128578

21

Ouyang Bing

Hybrid Aerial/Underwater Robotic System (HAUCS) for Scalable, Adaptable Maintenance of Aquaculture Fish Farms

USDA

Session 5: Thursday, April 21, 11:00am - 11:45am
# Principal Investigator Award Title Video Award #

1

Victoria Webster-Wood

CAREER: Adaptive Actuation and Control in Embodied Biohybrid Robots

2044785

2

Pranav Bhounsule

Asymmetric Gait Generation for Legged Locomotion in Complex Environments via Off-Line Model Reduction and Real-Time Optimal Control

2128568

3

Mark Campbell

NRI: FND: Probabilistic Hypothesis-Driven Adaptive Human-Robot Teams

1830497

4

Elin Bjorling

NRI: INT: Design and Development of a Social Robot for Gathering Ecological Momentary Stress Data from Teens

1734100

5

Dezhen Song

NRI: FND: Optoacoustic Material and Structure Pretouch Sensing at Robot Fingertip

1925037

6

Jianguo Zhao

Collaborative Research: Adaptive, Rapid, and Multifunctional Soft Robots (ARM SoRo) with Reconfigurable Shapes and Motions Enabled by Tunable Elastic Instabilities

2126039

7

Nikolay Atanasov

CAREER: Active Bayesian Inference for Collaborative Robot Mapping

2045945

8

Maja Mataric

NRI: FND: Communicate, Share, Adapt: A Mixed Reality Framework for Facilitating Robot Integration and Customization

1925083

9

John Whitney

NRI: FND: Controllable Compliance: A New Robotic Arm for Contact-Rich Manipulation

1830425

10

Richard Camilli
Matt Walter

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Shared Autonomy for Unstructured Underwater Environments through Vision and Language

1830500
1830660

11

Konstantinos Karydis

CAREER: Morphological Computation for Resilient Dynamic Locomotion of Compliant Legged Robots with Application to Precision Agriculture

2046270

12

Jessy Grizzle

Learning-Aided Integrated Control and Semantic Perception Architecture for Legged Robot Locomotion and Navigation in the Wild

2118818

13

Andre Mazzoleni

MAARCO - Multi-terrain Amphibious ARCtic ExplOrer

2116216

14

Tommaso Lenzi

CAREER: Bio-inspired Multi-joint Design and Control for Efficient and Lightweight Wearable Robots

2046287

15

Pratik Chaudhari

NRI: Robotics, Science and Technology for Forestry

USDA

16

Thomas Shipley

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Co-Robotic Systems for GeoSciences Field Research

1734365

17

Minghui Zheng

CAREER: Facilitating Autonomy of Robots Through Learning-Based Control

2046481

18

Ludovic Righetti

NRI: FND: Action-perception loops over 5G millimeter wave wireless for cooperative manipulation

1925079

19

Momotaz Begum

NRI: FND: Robust Learning of Sequential Motion from Human Demonstrations to Enable Robot-Guided Exercise Training

1830597

20

David Held

CAREER: Self-supervised Representation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

2046491

21

Wenzhuo Wu

NRI: INT: FIngers See Things Differently (FIST-D): A Robotic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) based on Augmented Tactile Imaging

1925194

Session 6: Thursday, April 21, 3:45pm - 4:30pm
# Principal Investigator Award Title Video Award #

1

Yan Gu

CAREER: A Hybrid Filtering and Robust Control Framework for Legged Robot Locomotion on Dynamic Rigid Surfaces

2046562

2

Elliott Rouse

NRI: FND: COLLAB: An Open-Source Robotic Leg Platform that Lowers the Barrier for Advanced Prosthetics Research

1734586

3

Ryan Williams

CAREER: Robots that Plan Interactions, Come and Go, and Build Trust

2046770

4

Guoquan Huang

NRI: FND: Consistent distributed visual-inertial estimation and perception for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles

1924897

5

Joydeep Biswas

CAREER: Robust Perception and Customization for Long-Term Autonomous Mobile Service Robots

2046955

6

Michael Gleicher

NRI: FND: Communicating Physical Interactions

1830242

7

Lantao Liu

CAREER: Autonomous Live Sketching of Dynamic Environments by Exploiting Spatiotemporal Variations

2047169

8

Shashank Priya

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Rumen Understanding through Millipede-Engineered Navigation and Sensing (RUMENS)

USDA

9

Gil Weinberg

NRI: FND: Creating Trust Between Groups of Humans and Robots Using a Novel Music Driven Robotic Emotion Generator

1925178

10

Young-Hui Chang

NRI: INT: COLLAB: Accelerating Large-Scale Adoption of Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses through Personalized Prosthesis Controller Adaptation

1734416

11

Shiqi Zhang

NRI: FND: Knowledge-based Robot Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty

1925044

12

James Schmiedeler

NRI: FND: Using Template Models to Identify Exoskeleton User Intent

1734532

13

Ioannis Karamouzas

CAREER: Human-Inspired Multi-Robot Navigation

2047632

14

Carl Vondrick

NRI: FND: Learning Visual Dynamics from Interaction

1925157

16

Christopher Amato

NRI: FND: Coordinating and Incorporating Trust in Teams of Humans and Robots with Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning

2024790

17

Isuru Godage

CAREER: Transformable and Reconfigurable Soft Robots

2048142

18

Kiju Lee

NRI: CASS: Configurable, Adaptive, and Scalable Swarm of Ground and Aerial Robots for Collaborative Smart Agriculture

USDA

19

Stefanie Tellex

EAGER: A Gateway Drone for High School Students

1940970

21

Guy Hoffman

NRI: FND: Collaborative Control for Wearable Robots

1734399