RI Seminar
Towards Robots that Move and Interact Like Humans
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane joined Disney Research, Pittsburgh as a Senior Research Scientist in October 2008. His research interests are in humanoid robot control, human motion analysis and simulation, and character animation synthesis. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999 and 2002 respectively. Before moving [...]
Self-Reflection and Self-Fabrication in robotic systems
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]
University of British Columbia
Extracting and identifying communicative events from multimodal behavior
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and physics from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1974, a certificate in ethnographic film making in 1976, and an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1978. From 1982-1987 he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Connecticut) investigating "the organization and [...]
Autonomy and Cooperation for Micro Air Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. [...]
Designing Social Behavior for Humanlike Robots
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Bilge Mutlu is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on designing social behavior for socially interactive systems—particularly, humanlike robots—in an integrated, interdisciplinary process in which he combines knowledge and methods from cognitive, social, computer science, and design, and understanding the cognitive, social, [...]
Robotic Vehicle Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associated faculty member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University where she has been since 1994. Her research is in nonlinear control and dynamics with current interests in cooperative control for multi-agent [...]
Recognition Technology for Aging in Place
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Marjorie Skubic received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, where she specialized in distributed telerobotics and robot programming by demonstration. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia with a joint appointment in Computer Science. Dr. Skubic has [...]