Robots at Sea
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Gaurav S. Sukhatme is Dean’s Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He currently serves as the Chairman of the Computer Science department. His research is in networked robots with applications to aquatic robots and on-body networks. Sukhatme has published extensively in these areas [...]
Scene Understanding from RGB-D Images
Event Location: 1507 Newell Simon HallBio: Saurabh Gupta is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, where he is advised by Jitendra Malik. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning. During his PhD he has studied the problem of scene understanding from RGB-D images. His work has been supported by the Berkeley Fellowship and [...]
Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium - 4401 Gates and Hillman CentersAbstract: Speakers: Ivan Sutherland, Visiting Scientist, Portland State University and Marc Raibert, President, Boston Dynamics MACHINES THAT WALK Marc Raibert and Ivan Sutherland came to CMU in 1980 to build walking machines. Marc built a machine that balanced on one leg. Having less courage, Ivan built [...]
Real-Time Monitoring and Prediction of the Pilot Vehicle System (PVS) Closed-Loop Stability
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Tanmay Kumar Mandal is an Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. candidate in Interactive Robotics Laboratory at West Virginia University. He received his Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2011. His current research interests are aerial robotics, guidance, navigation, control, and sensor fusion. He has [...]
Machines That Walk
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium - 4401 GHCAbstract: Marc Raibert and Ivan Sutherland came to CMU in 1980 to build walking machines. Marc built a machine that balanced on one leg. Having less courage, Ivan built a machine that used six legs to avoid the balance problem. Marc demonstrated that balance is relatively easy and went [...]
2016 National Robotics Week Celebration
Event Location: CampusAbstract: The Robotics Institute will celebrate the seventh annual National Robotics Week on April 14 & 15 with lectures, project demonstrations, the annual Mobot (mobile robot) races and a reception for RI affiliated people. April 15 12:00 - 4:00 pm: PUBLIC SPACE ROBOTS Open to the public TANK the roboceptionist Newell-Simon Hall 3rd [...]
Symbiotic Planning for Planetary Exploration
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Joseph Amato is a M.S. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University co-advised by Profs. William "Red" Whittaker and David Wettergreen. He received his B.S. in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2012 and spent two years working for Army Operational Test Command at Ft Hood, Texas, before [...]
Inside-out: First Person Vision for Personalized Intelligence
Event Location: Gates 2109Bio: Jianbo Shi studied Computer Science and Mathematics as an undergraduate at Cornell University where he received his B.A. in 1994. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1998. He joined The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 as a research faculty, [...]
From Supervised to Unsupervised Facial Action Discovery
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: Facial actions speak louder than words. Facial actions can reveal a person's emotion, intention, and physical state; and make possible a range of applications that include market research, human-robot interaction, drowsiness detection, and clinical and developmental psychology research. In this proposal, we investigate both supervised and unsupervised approaches to facial action [...]