Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2007

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)
January 31	Elements of Caging and an Introduction to the SToMP project
	Matt Mason	Carnegie Mellon University	Matt Mason
February 7	Improved Motion Planning Speed and Safety using Regions of Inevitable Collision
	James Kuffner	Carnegie Mellon University	James Kuffner
February 14	Buildings that Continue to Give, The Role of Building Intelligence
	Volker Hartkopf	Carnegie Mellon University	Volker Hartkopf
February 21	Randomly Sampling Actions In Dynamic Programming
	Chris Atkeson	Carnegie Mellon University	Chris Atkeson
February 28	Robotic-Assisted Tissue Engineering
	Lee Weiss	Carnegie Mellon University	Lee Weiss
March 7 - No CFR Seminar this week

March 14 - No CFR Seminar this week (Spring Break)

March 21	Gait Regulation: Using Gait Space Topology for Legged Robot Control
	Clark Haynes	Carnegie Mellon University	Clark Haynes
March 28	Learning the representation for modeling, classification and clustering problems with energy-based component analysis methods
	Fernando De la Torre	Carnegie Mellon University	Fernando De la Torre
April 4	ICRA 07' Practice Talks
	Jonathan Husrt	Carnegie Mellon University	Jonathan Husrt
April 11- No CFR - ICRA 2007.	No CFR - ICRA 2007. Talk Rescheduled!

April 18	Postponed to May 9th
	G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey	Carnegie Mellon University	G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey
April 25	Surface Patch Reconstruction and Recognition via Curve Sampling
	Yan-Bin Jia	Iowa State University	Yan-Bin Jia
May 2	A Neuromuscular Framework for Motor Control
	Pedram Afshar	Carnegie Mellon University	Pedram Afshar
May 9	Efficient Incremental Search with State Dominance
	G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey	Carnegie Mellon University	G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey
May 16	Structured prediction techniques for imitation learning Note: David Handron's Talk has been postponed
	Nathan Ratliff	Carnegie Mellon University	Nathan Ratliff

Seminars are held on Wednesdays in NSH 1507, 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.

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