Luis Sentis and Christian Ott
Friday May 16, 2008. Stanford University. Robotics/AI Lab
10-10:30 Arrival and welcome to the AI/Robotics Lab
10:30 - 10:45 Dr. Roland Philippsen, Stanford University, Mobile Robot Planning in Dynamic Environments and on Growable Costmaps (Gates, room 119)
10:45 - 11 Dr. Christian Ott, University of Tokyo, Resolving the Problem of Non-integrability of Nullspace Velocities for Compliance Control of Redundant Manipulators by using Semi-definite Lyapunov functions (Gates, room 119)
11 - 11:15 Sami Haddadin, DLR, Evaluation of Collision Detection and Reaction for a Human-Friendly Robot on Biological Tissues (Gates, room 119)
11:15 - 11:45 break / discussion
11:45 - 12 - Jason Wheeler, Stanford University, Proprioceptive Haptic Feedback (Gates , room 119)
12 - 12:15 Dr. Dana Kulic, University of Tokyo, Towards long-term, incremental learning of full-body motion patterns for humanoid robots (Gates, room 119)
12:15 - 12:30 Dr. Dongheui Lee, University of Tokyo, Missing Motion Data Recovery using Factorial Hidden Markov Models (Gates, room 119)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Lab tour and research overview by Prof. Oussama Khatib (Gates , room 119)
2:30 - 3 Dr. Roy Featherstone, the Australian National University, Aspects of robot dynamics (Gates, room B12)
3 - 3:15 Emel Demircan, Stanford Univeristy, Human motion reconstruction by direct control of marker trajectories (Gates, room B12)
3:15 - 3:45 break / discussion
3:45 - 4 Sebastian Wolf, DLR, A New Variable Stiffness Design: The DLR VS-Joint (Gates, room B12)
4 - 4:15 Taizo Yoshikawa, Honda Motor Co., Overview of Honda-Stanford research project on Asimo control (Gates, room B12)
4:15 - 4:30 Dr. Luis Sentis, Stanford University, Control of humanoid robots (Gates, room B12)