Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2010

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host (Appointments)
January 13	The Operator, a Valuable Resource: Asking For Help Through Adaptable Autonomy
	Breelyn Kane	CMU	Howie Choset
February 23	Computing Homotopy-Like Equivalence Classes in Hierarchical Motion Planning (a half-baked talk)
	Ross Knepper	CMU	Howie Choset
March 2	The Role of Minimalism and Dynamics in Climbing Locomotion
	Amir Degani	CMU	Howie Choset
March 16	Geometric Mechanics of Locomotion: Optimizing Coordinate Choice
	Ross Hatton	CMU	Howie Choset
March 30	Discrete Mechanics and Variational Integrators
	Ben Stephens	CMU	Howie Choset
April 6	Development of the robot balanced on a single ball -- Motivation, Approach, Implementation --
	Masaaki Kumagai	CMU	Howie Choset
April 7	Mechanics and Control of Brain-Machine Interface Systems
	Timothy Bretl	UIUC	Ralph Hollis
April 13	Soft Robots for Safe Physical Human Interaction
	Siddharth Sanan	CMU	Howie Choset
April 19	ICRA Practice Talks
	Michael Mistry, Ross Hatton and Lillian Chang	Carnegie Mellon	Howie Choset
April 20	Physics of Simple Swimming Systems
	Lisa Burton	MIT	Howie Choset
April 26	ICRA Practice Talks
	Akihiko Murai, Ross Hatton and Ross Knepper	Carnegie Mellon	Howie Choset
April 27	ICRA Practice Talks
	Matthew Mason and Amir Degani	Carnegie Mellon	Howie Choset
May 4	TBA
	Matt Tesch	CMU	Howie Choset
May 4	Using Expected Improvement to Effectively Optimize Snake Robot Gaits
	Matt Tesch	CMU	Howie Choset

Seminars are held, on a regular basis, Tuesdays in NSH 1507, unless otherwise noted on the calendar. Seminars begin at 4:30pm. 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 Laura Lindzey by email.