2018 NRI PI Meeting Program Agenda
| SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 | Location | |||
| 6:00pm - 10:00pm | Early Registration | Crystal Ballroom | ||
| MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 | ||||
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast | Virginia Ballroom Foyer | ||
| 7:30am - 6:00pm | Registration | Crystal Ballroom | ||
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Session Chair: Peter Kazanzides (JHU) |
Virginia Ballroom | ||
| SESSION 1: MANIPULATION AND DESIGN | Virginia Ballroom | |||
| 9:00am - 10:00am 8 minute talks |
Sketching Geometry and Physics Informed Inference for Mobile Robot Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes | Joseph LaViola, Chad Jenkins, Sina Masnadi |
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| Collaborative Research: Accelerating Robotic Manipulation with Data-Enhanced Contact Mechanics | Matthew Mason, Alberto Rodriguez | |||
| Vine Robots: Achieving Locomotion and Construction by Growth | Allison Okamura | |||
| A Variable Stiffness Artificial Muscle Material for Dexterous Manipulation | Qibing Pei, Erin Askounis | |||
| Design and Fabrication of Robot Hands for Dexterous Tasks | Nancy Pollard | |||
| Shape Morphing Arm Robotic (SMART) Manipulators for Simultaneous Safe Human-Robot Interaction and High Performance in Manufacturing | Hai-Jun Su | |||
| 10:00am - 11:30am | BREAK and POSTER SESSION 1 | Commonwealth Room | ||
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Keynote: Steve LaValle, University of Oulu, Finland The Path to (Human) Perception Engineering Session Chair: Greg Chirikjian (JHU) |
Virginia Ballroom | ||
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH | Virginia Ballroom Foyer | ||
| SESSION 2: REHABILITATION, MEDICAL, AND HUMAN AUGMENTATION | Virginia Ballroom | |||
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm 8 minute talks |
Decentralized Feedback Control Design for Cooperative Robotic Walking with Application to Powered Prosthetic Legs | Kaveh Akbari Hamed | ||
| Extra Robotic Limbs for Body Support in Kneeling and Crouching Works | H. Harry Asada | |||
| Towards Restoring Natural Sensation of Hand Amputees via Wearable Surface Grid Electrodes | Xiogang Hu, Helen Huang | |||
| A Cognitive Navigation Assistant for the Blind | Kris Kitani | |||
| Task-Based Assistance for Software-Enabled Biomedical Devices | Todd Murphey | |||
| Goal-Oriented, subject-Adaptive, robot-assisted Locomotor Learning (GOALL) | Fabrizio Sergi, Jill Higginson | |||
| Robotics to Improve Patient Care for Highly Infectious Diseases | William Smart | |||
| Assistive Robots for Blind Travelers | Aaron Steinfeld | |||
| Design of nanorobotics based on iron-palladium alloy nanohelicses for a new diagnosis and treatment of cancer | Minoru Taya | |||
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | BREAK and POSTER SESSION 2 | Commonwealth Room | ||
| SESSION 3: FIELD ROBOTICS | Virginia Ballroom | |||
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm 8 minute talks |
RAPID: Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation Delivery | Stefano Carpin | ||
| Targeted Observation of Severe Local Storms Using Aerial Robots | Eric Frew, Roger Laurence | |||
| Precision Pollination Robot | Yu Gu | |||
| Surveying and Servoing with CoTS Components as Canonical Tasks to Enable Future Farms with Commercial Off-The-Shelf Robots | Volkan Isler | |||
| A Collaborative Visual Assistant for Robot Operations in Unstructured or Confined Environments | Robin Murphy, Xuesu Xiao | |||
| Liquid handling robots - a new paradigm for STEM education | Ingmar Riedel-Kruse | |||
| Multi-Modal Characterization of DOE-EM Facilities | Sebastian Scherer, Kostas Alexis | |||
| Coordinated Detection and Tracking of Hazardous Agents with Aerial and Aquatic Robots to Inform Emergency Responders | Pratap Tokekar | |||
| Cooperative Control of Humanoid Robots for Remote Operations in Nuclear Environments | Holly Yanco | |||
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Industry-sponsored Reception | Virginia Ballroom Foyer | ||
| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 | ||||
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast | Virginia Ballroom Foyer | ||
| 7:30am - 4:30pm | Registration | Crystal Ballroom | ||
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Additional Agency Perspectives Session Chair: David Miller (NSF) |
Virginia Ballroom | ||
| SESSION 4: AUTONOMOUS AND REMOTELY-OPERATED VEHICLES | Virginia Ballroom | |||
| 9:00am - 10:00am 8 minute talks |
3-D Maneuverable Feedback-Controlled Micro Swimming Drone for Biomedical Applications | Sung Cho | ||
| Enabling UAS Fire Ignitions in Complex Firefighting Contexts | Sebastian Elbaum, Justin Bradley | |||
| Operating in the abyss: Bringing together humans and bio-inpsired autonomous vehicles for maritime applications | Kamran Mohseni | |||
| Scalable Robot Autonomy through Remote Operator Assistance and Lifelong Learning | Scott Niekum, Elaine Short, Harish Ravichandar | |||
| Enhancing Mapping Capabilities of Underwater Caves using Robotic Assistive Technology | Ioannis Rekleitis | |||
| Receding Horizon Integrity-A New Navigation Safety Methodology for Co-Robotic Passenger Vehicles | Matthew Spenko | |||
| 10:00am - 11:30am | BREAK and POSTER SESSION 3 | Commonwealth Room | ||
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Keynote: John Leonard (MIT) Challenges and Opportunities In Autonomy: Lessons From Self Driving Cars Session Chair: Peter Kazanzides (JHU) |
Virginia Ballroom | ||
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH | Virginia Ballroom Foyer | ||
| SESSION 5: SENSING, PERCEPTION, AND LEARNING | Virginia Ballroom | |||
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm 8 minute talks |
A Model based Approach to Distributed Adaptive Sampling of Spatio-Temporally Varying Fields | Suman Chakravorty | ||
| At the Water's Edge - Installation and Optimization of Robotic Sensing Systems | Carrick Detweiler, Justin Bradley | |||
| Experiential Learning for Robots: From Physics to Actions to Tasks | Gregory Hager | |||
| Software Framework for Research in Semi-Autonomous Teleoperation | Peter Kazanzides | |||
| Learning deep sensorimotor policies for shared autonomy | Sergey Levine, Siddharth Reddy | |||
| Robots that Learn to Communicate through Natural Human Dialog | Raymond Mooney, Harel Yedidsion | |||
| A Framework for Hierarchical, Probabilistic Planning and Learning | Stefanie Tellex, Cynthia Matuszek | |||
| Real-time Semantic Computer Vision for Co-Robotics | Nuno Vasconcelos, Pei Wang | |||
| Learning Adaptive Representations for Robust Mobile Robot Navigation from Multi-Modal Interactions | Matthew Walter | |||
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | BREAK and POSTER SESSION 4 | Commonwealth Room | ||
| 4:30pm | Closing Remarks Session Chair: Peter Kazanzides (JHU) |
Virginia Ballroom | ||
| MEETING ADJOURNED | ||||