Technical Program
The conference program as a PDF file.
Wednesday, June 8th
8:15-8:30 | Opening Remarks |
8:30-9:20 |
Invited talk:
Biological Inspiration in the Design of Legged Robotics,
Artificial Muscles and Feet Bob Full, University of California at Berkeley |
9:20-9:40 | Break |
9:40-11:10 |
Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and
Obstacle Detection Carl Wellington, Aaron Courville, Tony Stentz
Active Learning for Outdoor Obstacle Detection
Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots Spotlights for posters 1-5 |
11:10-12:00 |
Invited talk:
Learning To Use a Body Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-2:20 |
Invited talk:
Computer Vision: Redoing it as a Gigantic Search Problem Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University |
2:20-3:25 |
Star-shaped Roadmaps - A Deterministic Sampling Approach for Complete Motion Planning Gokul Varadhan, Dinesh Manocha
Complete Path Planning for Planar Closed Chains among Point Obstacles Spotlights for posters 6-10 |
3:25-3:45 | Break |
3:45-4:50 |
Vision-based Distributed Coordination and Flocking of Multiagent Systems
Nima Moshtagh, Ali Jadbabaie, Kostas Daniilidis
Formation Stabilization of Multiple Agents Using Decentralized Navigation Functions Spotlights for poster 11-14 |
7:00-10:00 | Poster session I |
Thursday, June 9th
8:30-9:20 |
Invited talk:
Multimodal Sensor Fusion in Man and Machine Heinrich Bülthoff, MPI for Biological Cybernetics |
9:20-9:40 | Break |
9:40-11:10 |
Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots Paul White, Victor Zykov, Josh Bongard, Hod Lipson
On Correlating Sonar Images
Square Root SAM Spotlights for posters 15-19 |
11:10-12:00 |
Invited talk:
Connecting Brain and Humanoids by Computational Neuroscience Mitsuo Kawato, ATR |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-2:20 |
Invited talk:
Programming Work Dan Koditschek, University of Pennsylvania |
2:20-3:25 |
Topological Mapping with Multiple Visual Manifolds Greg Grudic, Jane Mulligan
Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays Spotlights for posters 20-24 |
3:25-3:45 | Break |
3:45-4:50 |
Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Acausal Particle Filters Andrew Howard
Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping Spotlights for posters 25-27 |
7:00-10:00 | Poster session II |
Friday, June 10th
8:30-9:20 |
Invited talk:
Surgery Simulation With Geometric, Physical, and Physiological Models Nicholas Ayache, INRIA |
9:20-10:10 |
Biologically Inspired Miniature Water Strider Robot Steve H. Suhr, Sang Jun Lee, Yun Seong Song, Metin Sitti
Micro and Nanorobotic Assembly Using Dielectrophoresis |
10:10-10:30 | Break |
10:30-11:20 |
Invited talk:
Creating a DNA World Erik Winfree, California Institute of Technology |
11:20-12:10 |
Blind Swarms for Coverage in 2D Robert Ghrist, Vin de Silva, Abubakr Muhammad
Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing |
12:10-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-2:20 |
Invited talk:
Socially Interactive Robots That Assist, Entertain, and Learn Cynthia Breazeal, MIT |
2:20-3:10 |
Shape, Motion, and Parameter Estimation of Flexible Space Structures using Laser Rangefinders Matthew Lichter, Steven Dubowsky, Hiroshi Ueno, Shinji Mitani
Model-Based Error Correction for Flexible Robotic Surgical Instruments |
3:10-3:30 | Break |
3:30-4:20 |
Data Structure for Real-Time Processing in 3D Jean-Francois Lalonde, Nicolas Vandapel, Martial Hebert Sigma-MCL: Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots with Stereo Vision Pantelis Elinas |
4:30-5:00 | Open Mike session for conference planning and feedback |
6:00-9:00 | Banquet |
Poster session I (June 8)
- Visually Navigating the RMS Titanic with SLAM Information Filters
Ryan Eustice, Hanumant Singh, John Leonard, Matthew Walter, Robert Ballard - Information Gain-based Exploration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters
Cyrill Stachniss, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard - Performance Bounds for Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM)
Anastasios Mourikis, Stergios Roumeliotis - Efficient Exploration With Latent Structure
Bethany Leffler, Michael Littman, Alexander Strehl, Thomas Walsh - A polynomial-time algorithm to design push plans for sensorless parts sorting
Mark de Berg, Xavier Goaoc, Frank van der Stappen - Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly
Yuandong Yang, Oliver Brock - Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock - Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Principally Kinematic Mechanical Systems
Elie Shammas, Howie Choset, Alfred Rizzi - A Two-Point Boundary-Value Approach for Planning Manipulation Tasks
Peng Song, Vijay Kumar, Jong-Shi Pang - Dynamic Task Allocation in Robot Swarms
James McLurkin, Daniel Yamins - Microrobotic Streak Seeding For Protein Crystal Growth
Atanas Georgiev, Peter Allen, Ting Song, Andrew Laine, William Edstrom, John Hunt - Single Actuator Control of a 3DOF Hopping Robot
Cherouvim Nicholas, Papadopoulos Evangelos - Modeling Complex Contacts Involving Deformable Objects for Haptic and Graphic Rendering
Qi Luo, Jing Xiao
Poster session II (June 9)
- Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains
Josep Porta, Matthijs Spaan, Nikos Vlassis - Path Planning for Deformable Robots in Complex Environments
Russell Gayle, William Segars, Ming Lin and Dinesh Manocha - Motion Planning in the Presence of Drift, Underactuation and Discrete System Changes
Andrew Ladd, Lydia Kavraki - BioCD : efficient self-collision and distance computation in highly articulated molecular models
Vicente Ruiz de Angulo, Juan Cortes, Thierry Simeon - An RRT-Based Algorithm for Testing and Validating Multi-Robot Controllers
Jongwoo Kim, Joel Esposito, Vijay Kumar - Roadmap Based Pursuit-Evasion and Collision Avoidance
Volkan Isler, Dengfeng Sun and Shankar Sastry - Single-Cluster Spectral Graph Partitioning for Robotics Applications
Edwin Olson, Matthew Walter, Seth Teller, John Leonard - Adaptive Road Following using Self-Supervised Learning and Reverse Optical Flow
David Lieb, Andrew Lookingbill, Sebastian Thrun - Optimal Sensing Strategies for Mobile Robot Formations: Resource-Constrained Localization
Anastasios Mourikis, Stergios Roumeliotis - Discriminative Training of Kalman Filters
Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Michael Montemerlo, Andrew Ng, Sebastian Thrun - Time Complexity of Conflict-Free Vehicle Routing
Vikrant Sharma, Emilio Frazzoli, Petros Voulgaris - The Stability of Pointmass Hoppers with Varying Morphology and Minimal Feedback
Justin Seipel - Optimal design of robots
Jean-Pierre Merlet