Maryland Robotics Center Seminars
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
February 15
Interactive Autonomy: A human centered approach to learning and control
Dorsa Sadigh
March 1
Autonomous Exploration and Mapping using Visual, Inertial and Semantic Mapping
Nikolay A. Atanasov
March 29
Efficient Robot Skill Learning: Grounded Simulation Learning and Imitation Learning from Observation
Peter Stone
April 5
Robots in Farms and Wildlife
Volkan Isler
April 19
Planning Beyond Motion Planning
Lydia Kavraki
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
September 14
Rehabilitation Robotics and Movement Primitives
Hermano Igo Krebs
October 26
Autonomous Drone Racing
Davide Scaramuzza
November 16
From Unmanned Aerial Systems to Robonaut2: On-board Runtime Reasoning in Air and Space
Kristin Yvonne Rozier
November 30
Sensory Mediated Propulsion and Touch in Biorobotic Fins
James Tangorra
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Drexel University
December 7
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
February 16
Temporal Logic Planning for Mobile Robots
Georgios Fainekos
March 30
Teaching Drones to Soar
Jack Langelaan
April 13
Biologically Inspired Drones
Dario Floreano
April 20
Robotic pioneers on Mars and the simulators that drive them
Vandi Verma
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
May 4
Making Robots Behave
Leslie Kaelbling
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
September 22
Synthesis for Robots: Guarantees and Feedback for Complex Behaviors
Hadas Kress-Gazit
Cornell University
October 20
Cognizant Autonomous Exploration and Mapping Using Aerial Robots
Kostas Alexis
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
November 10
Controlling Agile Robots with Formal Safety Guarantees
Anirudha Majumdar
Princeton University
December 1
CANCELLED. MOVED TO SPRING 2018
Jack Langelaan
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
March 10
Cognitive Priming in Human and Autonomous Systems
Laura Hiatt
March 17
Grasping and Manipulation: Towards Humanlike Dexterity
Nancy Pollard
Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department
March 31
Axel Krieger
April 7
Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Crowd Simulation to Protein Folding
Nancy Amato
April 21
Robotic Gait Therapy: Are We Finally Getting It Right?
Anindo Roy
Associate Professor
University of MD Medical School, Neurology
Director, Robotics Technology Core, VA RR&D Maryland Exercise and Robotics Center of Excellence (MERCE)
Faculty, Maryland Robotics Center
April 28
Adaptive Robotic Manipulation Devices for Human Augmentation
Frank L. Hammond III
Assistant Professor of ME and BME
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
September 23
Haptics: The Technology of Touch
Katherine Kuchenbecker
Class of 1940 Bicentennial Endowed Term Chair Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
University of Pennsylvania
October 28
Bioinspired Aerial and Underwater Robots: Design, Fabrication, and Mathematical Modeling Challenges
Kamran Mohseni
Professor and W.P. Bushenell Endowed Chair
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Networked Autonomous Systems
University of Florida
November 4
Advanced Human-Robot Control and Interaction Interfaces
Director of the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control (HORC) Lab
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Arizona State University
November 11
Terradynamics of Animal and Robot Locomotion in Complex Terrains
December 2
MIT Cheetah: New Design Paradigm Shift Toward Mobile Robots
Sangbae Kim
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
February 19
Distributed Data Fusion: Neighbors, Rumors, and the Art of Collective Knowledge
Mark Campbell
S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
John A. Mellowes '60 Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Cornell University
March 23
Robophysics: Robotics Meets Physics
Daniel Goldman
Associate Professor
School of Physics
Georgia Tech
April 8
Magnetic Control of Therapy to Hard-to-Reach Disease Targets
Benjamin Shapiro
Professor
Bioengineering and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
April 29
Kingsley Fregene
TO BE RESCHEDULED From Snake Robots to Multi-Degree of Freedom Modular Systems
Howie Choset
Professor
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
May 6
Mapping, Localization, and Autonomous Vehicles
John Leonard
Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Associate Department Head for Research
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
October 9
Tethered Pelvic Assist Device (TPAD) and Cable-driven Exoskeletons for Human Movement Training
Sunil Agrawal
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
October 30
Fish 'n' Robots: not a take-out food
Maurizio Porfiri
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
New York University
November 6
Ants as inspiration for modular and soft robotics
David Hu
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
November 20
Manufacturing, actuation, sensing, and control for robotic insects
Robert J. Wood
Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
December 4
Stretching the Boundaries of Medical Robots
Pierre Dupont
Edward P. Marram Chair and Chief
Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering
Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
February 27
Robots Learning Action Plans by Watching YouTube Videos
Yiannis Aloimonos
Computer Science and UMIACS
Affiliate Faculty, ISR
March 6
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER--WILL BE RESCHEDULED
Ants as Inspiration for Modular and Soft Robotics
David Hu
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
March 13
Inference and Planning for Aggressive Autonomous Flight
Nicholas Roy
Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 17
Scalable 3D fabrication of soft machines
Rob Shepherd
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
April 24
Design and Integration of Novel Field Robots and Robotic Exoskeletons
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Founding Director, Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory
George Washington University
May 15
Working Well With Others: The Future of Collaborative Robotics in Manufacturing
Jeremy Marvel
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
Sept. 10
(Gliding) Robotic Fish: Swim or Not Swim (link is external)
Xiaobo Tan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michigan State University
and ISR/ECE alumnus
video (link is external)
Oct. 3
Analysis and Simulation for Robotic Systems Performing Contact Tasks: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (link is external)
Jeff Trinkle
Program Director
National Robotics Initiative and Robust Intelligence
Information and Intelligent Systems Division
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
National Science Foundation
and
Director of the CS Robotics Lab
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Oct. 10
Virtual Reality: The Next Generation (link is external)
Steve LaValleProfessor, University of Illinois
Research Scientist, Oculus/Facebook
Oct. 10
Soft Multifunctional Materials for Soft Robotics (link is external)
Carmel Majidi
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
| video (link is external) |
Dec. 12
Cognitive Robotics and Human Robot Interaction (link is external)
Greg Trafton
Head, Intelligent Systems Section
Naval Research Laboratory
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
April 11
Recent algorithms for the assignment problem in multi-robot task allocation
Dylan Shell
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
| video |
May 9
Computation of Robot Motion Plans from Complex High-Level Specifications
Lydia E. Kavraki
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering
Rice University
May 16
Secure state-estimation and control for dynamical systems under adversarial attacks
Paulo Tabuada
UCLA Electrical Engineering
| video |
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
October 11
Robots (and Informatics) to the Rescue.
Robin Murphy
Texas A&M University
| video |
October 14
Artificial mind with emotion and sociality.
Minoru Asada
Osaka University
October 25
Feedback Control of Bipedal Locomotion: Theory and Experiment
Jessy W. Grizzle
University of Michigan
| video |
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
February 22
Symbiotic Autonomy: Robots, Humans and the Web
Manuela M. Veloso
Carnegie Mellon University
March 1
Visual Guidance of Flight in Bees & Birds, & Applications to Robotics
Mandyam Srinivasan
Queensland Brain Institute
The University of Queensland
March 8
FIRST Robotics in Maryland – Inspiring STEM Excellence
Bill Duncan
Regional Director in Maryland for FIRST,
Executive Director of STEMaction, Inc.
April 5
Design and Control of Complex Dynamical Systems at United Technologies Corp
Sonja Glavaski
Control Systems Group Leader
United Technologies Research Center
April 26
Coordinated Robotics: From Agility to Perception
Thomas Bewley
Director, Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics Labs
University of California, San Diego
| video |
May 16
Grounding Natural Language in Robot Control and Perception Systems
Dieter Fox
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Director, UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab
University of Washington
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
November 2
Identification of Feedback Controllers in Locomoting Animals
Noah J Cowan
Johns Hopkins University
November 30
National Robotics Initiative & Innovation Corps
Richard Voyles
NSF
December 14
Collaborative Robot Tracking of Geophysical Flows: How Local Measurements Discover Global Structures
M. Ani Hsieh
Drexel University
Sponsored by Techno-Sciences, Inc.
May 3
Modular & Reconfigurable Robots
Mark Yim
University of Pennsylvania
April 27
Why drive (autonomously) when you can fly (autonomously)?
Sanjiv Singh
Carnegie Mellon University
April 6
Self-Organization in Networks of Autonomous Systems
Daniela Rus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 9
Applying Principles from Biology to the Design and Operation of Robots
Mark Cutkosky
Stanford University
February 17
Enabling better Human-Robot Interaction Through Cognition (link is external)
Alan C. Schultz
Naval Research Laboratory
Sponsored by Techno-Sciences, Inc.
November 18
Stochastic Models in Robotics
Greg Chirikjian
Johns Hopkins University
October 28
Biologically-Inspired Approaches for Collaboration of Heterogeneous Autonomous Naval Systems
Marc Steinberg
Office of Naval Research
October 21
Planning and Decision-Making for Underwater Robot Teams: Algorithms and Experiments
Gaurav Sukhatme
University of Southern California
October 7
Biomimetic Millirobots
Ron Fearing
UC Berkeley
September 23
Algorithms for Feedback Motion Planning with examples using Walking Robots and Robotics Birds
Russ Tedrake
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by Techno-Sciences, Inc.
April 29
Motion Planning for Physical Robotics
Dinesh Manocha
University of North Carolina
April 22
Robots and the Human
Oussama Khatib
Stanford University
April 1
Human-Centered Control Systems for Robot-Assisted Medical Interventions
Allison Okamura
Johns Hopkins University
February 25
Autonomous 3-D Flight and Cooperative Control of Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles
Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania
January 28
Hovering Quad-Rotor Control: A Comparison of Nonlinear Controllers Using Visual Feedback
Rogelio Lozano
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
November 12
A National Robotics Effort
Henrick Christensen
Georgia Institute of Technology
October 29
Partitioned and Hybrid Methods for Visual Servo Control
Seth Hutchinson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 17
Nereus Hybrid Underwater Robotic Vehicle
Louis Whitcomb
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
May 14
Microsurgery Assistant System for Retinal Surgery
Russell Taylor
Johns Hopkins University
April 30
Pursuit and Cohesion: Bio-inspiration for Collective Robotics
Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad
Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
April 23
Generality and Simple Hands: Automation and Robotics
Matthew T. Mason
Carnegie Mellon University