Planetary Robotic Exploration: Mobility and Autonomy
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Issa Nesnas is a principal member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the supervisor of the Robotic Mobility group. He is leading research in extreme terrain mobility and microgravity mobility projects, in collaboration with university partners. Prior to that, he led a multi-center project for developing reusable [...]
CMDragons’13: RoboCup Small-Size Robot Soccer Team
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: The CMDragons research team is advised by Manuela Veloso, Herbert A. Simon Professor in CSD and courtesy in RI. The other members of the team are Joydeep Biswas (team leader, RI PhD student), Juan Pablo Mendoza (RI PhD student), Danny Zhu (CSD PhD student), Benjamin Choi (CSD junior), and Alex Etling [...]
Estimation and Tracking of Local Road Geometry for Assisting Reliable Urban Driving
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Dr. Young-Woo Seo is currently a post-doctoral fellow, working with GM-CMU Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab (AD-CRL) and the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. During his post-doctoral period, he has been working on developing robust perception algorithms for reliable autonomous driving. His tasks involve in developing computer vision algorithm for understanding [...]
Learning from biology : actuation, structure and control of the MIT cheetah robot
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sangbae Kim has served as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since 2009. As the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory, Sangbae has been developing bio-inspired robotic design processes. His design approaches focus on the design principles from complex biological systems from understanding the difference between biological and engineering [...]
Robots at Work: Thirty Years
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Red Whittaker is the Fredkin professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has developed dozens of technologies and robots, breaking new ground in autonomous vehicles, field robotics, space exploration, mining and agriculture. Whittaker developed the robots that cleaned up [...]
Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Pieter Abbeel received a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008, with an appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has won various [...]
Discriminative Object Categorization with External Semantic Knowledge
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Sung Ju Hwang is a postdoctoral research associate at Disney Research Pittsburgh, working under the supervision of Dr. Leonid Sigal. He received a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, and a M.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2008 [...]
PLUME-CHASERS: Designing Fast Robot Teams Underwater
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Professor Franz S. Hover is the Finmeccanica Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Hover earned the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University, and the S.M. and Sc.D. degrees from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program in [...]
Nonlinear Geometric Control for Highly Dynamic Legged Locomotion and Aerial Manipulation
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a courtesy Assistant Professor of Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion on the bipedal robot MABEL was featured on The [...]
Computational Behavior Analysis for Use in Assessing, Understanding, and Treating Clinical Depression and Related Disorders
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr Roland Goecke is an Associate Professor in Information Technology & Engineering at the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Canberra, Australia. He leads the Vision and Sensing Group and is Deputy Director of the Human-Centered Computing Research Laboratory. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science from [...]