Carlo Pinciroli 2/22/17 obot swarms promise to offer solutions for applications that today are considered dangerous, expensive, or even impossible Notable examples include...
Jim Jing and Scott Hamill 3/1/17 The Verifiable Robotics Research Group has been exploring different aspects of modularity in robot control and design In this two part talk,...
Erik Komendera 3/8/17 Abstract: With the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, the option to lift heavy payloads to orbit has become severely constrained Combined with...
Bennett Wineholt 3/22/17 Recent work to reduce the size and computational requirements of deep neural networks for machine learning has allowed applications including video...
Patrícia Alves-Oliveria 3/29/17 In this talk Patrícia will present her work on the field of Human-Robot Interaction Specifically, she will introduce her previous work on the...
Jesse Goldberg 4/12/17 Reinforcement learning enables animals to learn to select the most rewarding action in a given context Edward Thorndike posed a simple solution to...
Kevin Chen 4/19/17 Abstract: Flapping flight is ubiquitous among agile natural flyers Taking inspiration from biological flappers, we develop a robot capable of insect-like...
Anil Rao 4/26/17 Optimal control concerns systems that evolve in time for which you have partial control of the system and it is desired to optimize a specified performance...
Thomas Wallin 5/10/17 Conventional robots are composed of rigid components with discrete linkages that promote high precision and controllability; however, these systems...
Kirstin Peterson 8/24/16 In robot collectives, interactions between large numbers of individually simple robots lead to complex global behaviors A great source of inspiration...
Michael Duffy 8/31/16 The LIFT! Project explored scaling of all-electric multi-rotor propulsion and methods of cooperation between multiple VTOL aircraft Multi-rotor...
Guy Hoffman 9/14/16 Nonverbal behavior is at the core of human-robot interaction, but the subfield of social haptics is distinctly underrepresented Most efforts focus around...
Keith Green 9/21/16 Keith Evan Green looks toward a next frontier in robotics: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments Green calls this...
Ross Knepper 9/28/16 Actions performed in the context of a joint activity comprise two aspects: functional and communicative The functional component achieves the goal of...
Ross Knepper 10/5/16 Part II — Actions performed in the context of a joint activity comprise two aspects: functional and communicative The functional component achieves...
Susan Herring 10/12/16 The principal use of telepresence robots is for human-human communication, where at least one person (the pilot) is remote via the robot and one or...
Adrian Boteanu 10/19/16 Robots are increasingly often expected to work along with humans Natural language enables bi-directional interaction: for users to specify tasks and...
Mike Meller 10/30/16 Hydraulic control systems have become increasingly popular as the means of actuation for human-scale legged robots and assistive devices One of the...
Chris Mavrogiannis 12/7/16 Navigating a human environment is a hard task for a robot, due to the lack of formal rules guiding traffic, the lack of explicit communication among...