RI Seminar
Naomi Ehrich Leonard
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Princeton University

Bio-inspired dynamics for multi-agent decision-making

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: I will present distributed decision-making dynamics for multi-agent systems, motivated by studies of animal groups, such as house-hunting honeybees, and their extraordinary ability to make collective decisions that are both robust to disturbance and adaptable to change. The dynamics derive from principles of symmetry, consensus, and bifurcation in networked systems, exploiting instability as a [...]

VASC Seminar
Albert Ali Salah
Associate Professor
Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Multimodal, multilevel analysis of human behavior

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Abstract: Computer analysis of human behavior is an interdisciplinary endeavor combining sensing technology, theoretical and empirical models of human behavior, pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms, and interaction sciences. The applications in this area range widely, from robotics to healthcare, from smart environments to multimedia, from security to humanitarian response. While human behaviors span different [...]

RI Seminar
Ravi Balasubramanian
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University

Robotics-Inspired Implantable Passive Mechanisms to Surgically Re-Engineer the Human Body

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: Tendon-transfer surgeries are performed for a variety of conditions such as stroke, palsies, trauma, and congenital defects. The surgery involves re-routing a tendon from a nonfunctioning muscle to a functioning muscle to partially restore lost function. However, a fundamental aspect of the current surgery, namely the suture that attaches the tendon(s) to the muscles, [...]

RI Seminar
Roberta L. Klatzky
Professor of Psychology
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition , Carnegie Mellon University

Rendering Material Properties through Touch

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract:  Humans haptically perceive the material properties of objects, such as roughness and compliance, through signals from sensory receptors in skin, muscles, tendons, and joints.  Approaches to haptic rendering of material properties operate by stimulating, or attempting to stimulate, some or all of these receptor populations.  My talk will describe research on haptic perception of [...]

VASC Seminar
Burak Uzkent
Computer Vision Engineer
Planet Labs

Object Detection and Tracking on Low Resolution Aerial Images

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Abstract:  Object tracking from an aerial platform poses a number of unique challenges including the small number of pixels representing the objects, large camera motion, and low temporal resolution. Because of these unique reasons, low resolution aerial image analysis needs to be tackled differently than the traditional image analysis both in terms of the sensors, [...]

RI Seminar
Alex John London
Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Director of the Center for Ethics & Policy
Carnegie Mellon University

From Automation to Autonomy and the Ubiquity of Moral Decision Making

Newell-Simon Hall 1305

Abstract:  I argue that there is an important sense in which all decisions are moral decisions and I explore some implications of this insight (and its denial) for the design and human impacts of increasingly complex automated systems and emerging autonomous systems.  This insight is obscured when we think about automated systems by the social [...]