Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2007

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host (Appointments)
August 28 Special Timing NSH3305 5:00pm	Acquisition and Use of Environment Models for Household Robots
	Michael Beetz	Technische Universität München	Sidd Srinivasa
October 15 Special Timing NSH1507 4:30pm	Manipulator Path Planning on Constraint Manifolds
	Dmitry Berenson	Carnegie Mellon University	Dmitry Berenson
October 22 CANCELLED
October 29	Trajectory Planning and Control of an Underactuated Dynamically Stable Single Spherical Wheeled Mobile Robot
	Umashankar Nagarajan	Carnegie Mellon University	Umashankar Nagarajan
November 5	Object recognition and full pose estimation in cluttered environments
	Alvaro Collet	Carnegie Mellon University	Alvaro Collet
November 12	From Vibratory Manipulation to Self-Organization
	Kevin Lynch	Northwestern University	Alberto Rodriguez
November 19	Large scale coordination and Social Networks
	Paul Scerri	Carnegie Mellon University	Paul Scerri
November 24 Special Day and Place Wean 5316 4:00pm	Survivability: Measuring and Ensuring Path Diversity and Path Diversity Is Only Part of the Problem
	Lawrence Erickson and Ross Knepper	University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon University	Ross Knepper
December 3 Special Timing NSH1507 4:30pm

Seminars are held, on a regular basis, on Wednesdays in NSH 1507, unless otherwise noted on the calendar. Seminars begin at 4:00pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with a speaker, please contact the speaker if they are from CMU, or their host, listed on the calendar, if they are from outside of the University.

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Alberto Rodriguez by email.