PhD Thesis Defense
Neal A. Seegmiller
Carnegie Mellon University

Dynamic Model Formulation and Calibration for Wheeled Mobile Robots

Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: Advances in hardware design have made wheeled mobile robot(WMRs) exceptionally mobile. To fully exploit this mobility, WMR planning, control,and estimation systems require motion models that are fast and accurate. Much of the published theory on WMR modeling is limited to 2D or kinematics, but 3D dynamic (or force-driven) models are required [...]

RI Seminar
Greg Sawicki
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
North Carolina State University

Spring-loading human locomotion: Taking inspiration from biology to improve lower-limb exoskeleton design

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: Dr. Gregory S. Sawicki is an Assistant Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1999) and the University of California-Davis (2001). Prior to his [...]

VASC Seminar
Jonghyun Choi
PhD Candidate
University of Maryland

Improving visual category recognition by diversity and commonality

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Jonghyun Choi is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Lab at the University of Maryland, working with Prof. Larry Davis. He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He has worked as an intern [...]

RI Seminar
Gerhard Sagerer
Professor
Bielefeld University

The Social Robotics Paradigm: From Cognitive Science to Robots in the Real World

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Since 2007, Gerhard Sagerer has been director at the Research Institute for Robotics and Cognition (CoR-Lab), which forms a strategic partnership with the industrial partner Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (HRI-EU). From 2007 to 2009 Gerhard Sagerer was also vice-coordinator of the Centre of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), a research [...]

VASC Seminar
Sergey Tulyakov
PhD Student
University of Trento, Italy

Head Pose Estimation and Facial Expression Recognition under a Wide Range of Head Poses

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sergey Tulyakov is a PhD student advised by Prof. Nicu Sebe at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, Italy. His research interest includes 2D and 3D computer vision with particular emphasis on real-time analysis of human faces. He received his MS and BS in computer science from [...]

RI Seminar
Joelle Pineau
Associate Professor of Computer Science
McGill University

Learning Socially Adaptive Navigation Strategies: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Joelle Pineau is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, co-director of the Reasoning and Learning Lab, and member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). Before joining McGill in 2004, she received a B.A.Sc. (1998) in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and an MSc [...]

RI Seminar
Wolfram Burgard
Professor
University of Freiburg

Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a professor for computer science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. My areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots. My research mainly focuses on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control. Over [...]

VASC Seminar
Wolfram Burgard
Professor
University of Freiburg

Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: I am a professor for computer science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. My areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots. My research mainly focuses on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control. Over [...]

RI Seminar
Wojciech Matusik
Associate Professor
MIT/CSAIL

Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Wojciech Matusik is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he leads the Computational Fabrication Group.Before coming to MIT, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems, and Disney Research Zurich. He studied computer graphics at MIT [...]

VASC Seminar
Michael Tarr
Professor and Department Head
Carnegie Mellon University

CANCELED

Event Location: NSH 1507