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Foundations of Robotics Seminar Archive
Spring 2003

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Seminar Calendar

Information on the speaker, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name. The abstract, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

Date Speaker Affiliation Host (Appointments)
March 17 Fundamental Sampling Issues in Motion Planning
Presentation Slides (pdf 2.5Mb)
Monday March 17, 2003
3.30-5.00pm
Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)
Steven M. Lavalle University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matt Mason (Jean Harpley)
March 19 Sensor Guided Behaviors for RHex and State Estimation under Intermittent Dynamics
Sarjoun Skaff Carnegie Mellon University
Sarjoun Skaff
April 2 Hybrid Systems: Modeling and Analysis
Presentation Slides (ppt 1.8Mb)
David Conner Carnegie Mellon University
David Conner
April 9 Self-Collision Detection and Prevention for Humanoid Robots
Presentation Slides (pdf 1.3Mb)
James Kuffner Carnegie Mellon University
James Kuffner
April 16 Legless Locomotion for Legged Robots
Ravi Balasubramanian Carnegie Mellon University
Ravi Balasubramanian
April 23 Locomotion : Elie's Big Picture (I)
Presentation Slides (ppt 1.2Mb)
Elie Shammas Carnegie Mellon University
Elie Shammas
May 7 Feedback Control of Underactuated Systems via Sequential Composition: Visually Guided Control of a Unicycle
George Kantor Carnegie Mellon University
George Kantor
May 21 Locomotion : Elie's Big Picture (II)
Presentation Slides (ppt 1.2Mb)
Elie Shammas Carnegie Mellon University
Elie Shammas
Jun 4 A mobile hyper redundant mechanism for search and rescue tasks
Alon Wolf Carnegie Mellon University
Alon Wolf
June 18 Intrinsic Tactile Sensing and System Inversion
Presentation Slides (Pdf 76Kb)
Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon University
Matt Mason
July 9 Some Fundamentals of Stability Theory
Presentation Slides (ppt 1Mb)
Aaron Greenfield Carnegie Mellon University
Aaron Greenfield
July 16 Local Control Policies for Global Control and Navigation
Presentation Slides (ppt 1.8Mb)
David Conner Carnegie Mellon University
David Conner
July 23 Social Mobile Robotics - What foundation?
Presentation Slides (ppt 1.3Mb)
Illah Nourbakhsh Carnegie Mellon University
Illah Nourbakhsh
July 30 Intrinsic Tactile Sensing and System Inversion II
Presentation Slides (Pdf 1.5Mb)
Siddhartha Srinivasa Carnegie Mellon University
Siddhartha Srinivasa

 

 
General Information
Seminars are held every Wednesday in 3305 Newell-Simon Hall, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 4:30pm, and refreshments are served starting at 4:15pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues; please try not to leave during a seminar in deference to the speaker.

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.

Seminar Archive

January - July 2003

Contact
For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Ravi Balasubramanian, by e-mail at ravib@cmu.edu.


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