RI Seminar
Does Touch Perform Fourier Analysis? – A Frequency-Domain Analysis of Haptic Gratings
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hong Z. Tan is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with courtesy appointments in mechanical engineering and psychological sciences at Purdue University. Her research of haptic human-machine interfaces focuses on haptic perception and its implications for engineering applications. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao [...]
Useful signals from motor cortex
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Schwartz received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984 with a thesis entitled "Activity in the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei During Normal and Perturbed Locomotion". He then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he worked with Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos, who was [...]
Intelligent Vehicles Active Safety: A Signal Processing Method for Unobtrusive Detection of Driver Drowsiness
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Azim Eskandarian is a Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University (GW). He has been the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) since 1996 and the director of the “Transportation Safety and Security” program since 2002, which is one of GW’s competitively [...]
Semi-Autonomous Control of Passenger Vehicles for Active Hazard Avoidance
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Karl Iagnemma is a principal research scientist in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of the Robotic Mobility Group. He holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He [...]
Robots and geometry: robot geodesics, pushing string, and grasping cloth
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Devin Balkcom is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Balkcom's primary research interest is in robotic manipulation, focusing on the manipulation of flexible materials including cloth, paper, and string. Balkcom received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, advised by Matthew T. Mason.Abstract: Theory and [...]
Coordinating Multi-Agent Learners Thru Multi-Level Supervisory Control
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Victor Lesser received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1973. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. His major research focus is on the control and organization of complex AI systems. He has [...]
Incomplete Domain Models, Uncertain Users and Open Worlds: Foundations of Model-lite Planning
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Subbarao Kambhampati is a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University, where he directs the Yochan research group. His research and teaching interests are broadly split between automated planning and intelligent information integration. Kambhampati is the recipient of an NSF Research Initiation Award (1992), an NSF Young Investigator [...]
Temporal Causality for Visual Event Analysis
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Jim Rehg is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is co-Director of the Computational Perception Lab and Associate Director of Research in the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1995 and worked at the Cambridge [...]
Perching on Walls: toward hybrid aerial/scansorial robotics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Mark Cutkosky (Ph.D. CMU 1985) is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He formerly was a lecturer at CMU and a design engineer at ALCOA. He has lead numerous projects in dexterous manipulation, haptics, bio-inspired robotics and design collaboration. He has graduated over 30 Ph.D. students in these areas, [...]
Planning and Learning in Information Space
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Nicholas Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He received his Ph. D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His research interests include autonomous [...]