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Workshop/Tutorial Schedule

Workshops will play an integral part of the program for RSS 2012. Workshops and tutorials will be woven into the fabric of the conference and will run in the morning sessions from 8:30am until noon with regular papers, plenaries and poster sessions running in the afternoons. The following schedule outlines the timing of the workshops and tutorials.

Mon 9/07/12 Tu 10/07/12 Wed 11/07/12 Th 12/07/12
W1: Mobile Manipulation W6: Long term autonomy
W2: Aerial I W7: Motion Planning
W3: Robots in clutter W8: Beyond Laser/Vision
W4: RGB-D W9: Bio-inspired Robotics W11: Result Replication
W5: Medical W10: Environmental W12: Aerial II
T1: ML T2: PCL

TUTORIALS:

T1. Machine Learning for Robotics: Old Dreams, New Tools

  • Organizers:

Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar (University of Edinburgh) and
Prof. Marc Toussaint (FU Berlin)

  • Date:

July 10

  • Venue:

The Great Hall

  • Webcast:

T1 webcast

We are sorry to announce that T2 on the Point Cloud Library has been cancelled.

T2. Point Cloud Registration and Dense 3D representations using the Point Cloud Library (PCL)

  • Organizers:
Radu B. Rusu (Willow Garage, Inc)
Michael Dixon(Willow Garage, Inc)
Suat Gedikli (Willow Garage, Inc)

* Date:

July 12

WORKSHOPS:

W1. Generating Robot Motion for Contact with the World

  • Organizers:

Mihail Pivtoraiko (University of Pennsylvania)
Dov Katz (Carnegie Mellon University)
Oliver Brock (TU Berlin)

  • Date:

July 9 & 10

  • Venue:

The Refectory H113

  • Webcast:

W1 webcast

W2. Resource-Efficient Integration of Perception and Control for Highly Dynamic Mobile Systems

  • Organizers:

Michael Suppa (DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics)
Darius Burschka (TU Munich)
Konstantinos Dalamagkidis (TU Munich)
Korbinian Schmid (DLR - Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics)

  • Date:

July 9 & 10

  • Venue:

McRae Room S418

  • Webcast:

W2 webcast

W3. Robots in Clutter: Manipulation, Perception and Navigation in Human Environments

  • Organizers:

Mehmet Dogar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Siddhartha Srinivasa (Carnegie Mellon University)
Greg Hager (Johns Hopkins)
Kaijen Hsiao (Willow Garage)
Matei Ciocarlie (Willow Garage)

  • Date:

July 9 & 10

  • Venue:

History Room S223

  • Webcast:

W3 webcast

W4. RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras

  • Organizers:

Dieter Fox (University of Washington)
Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage Inc.)
Jana Kosecka (George Mason University)
Xiaofeng Ren (University of Washington)

  • Date:

July 9 & 10

  • Venue:

OrientalRoom S204

  • Webcast:

W4 webcast

W5. Algorithmic Frontiers in Medical Robotics: Coping with Uncertain, Deformable, Heterogenous Environments

  • Organizers:

Dmitry Berenson (UC Berkeley)
Ron Alterovitz (UNC Chapel Hill)
Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley)
Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley)

  • Date:

July 9 & 10

  • Venue:

Room S421

  • Webcast:

W5 webcast

W6. Long-term operation of autonomous robotic systems in changing environment

  • Organizers:

Daniel Meyer-Delius (KUKA Laboratories GmbH)
Patrick Pfaff (KUKA Laboratories GmbH)
Gian Diego Tipaldi (University of Freiburg)

  • Date:

July 11 & 12

  • Venue:

The Great Hall

  • Webcast:

W6 webcast

W7. Stochastic Motion Planning and Information-Based Control

  • Organizers:

Mac Schwager (Boston University)
Michael Vitus (Stanford)
Sertac Karaman (MIT)
Claire Tomlin (UC Berlekey)

  • Date:

July 11 & 12

  • Venue:

Oriental Room S204

  • Webcast:

W7 webcast

W8. Beyond laser and vision: alternative sensing techniques for robotic perception

  • Organizers:

Thierry Peynot (ACFR, The University of Sydney)
Sildomar Monteiro (ACFR, The University of Sydney)
Michel Devy (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Alonzo Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

  • Date:

July 11 & 12

  • Venue:

The Refectory H113

  • Webcast:

W8 webcast

W9. Biologically Inspired Robotics

  • Organizers:

Noah Cowan (Johns Hopkins University)
Soon-Jo Chung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Xinyan Deng (Purdue University)

  • Date:

July 11

  • Venue:

McRae Room S418

  • Webcast:

W9 webcast

W10: Robotics for Environmental Monitoring

  • Organizers:

Ryan N. Smith (Queensland University of Technology)
Lino Marques (Institute of Systems and Robotics)
Ibrahim Volkan Isler (University of Minnesota)
Matthew Dunbabin (CSIRO ICT Centre)

  • Date:

July 11

  • Venue:

History Room S223

  • Webcast:

W10 webcast

W11. From theory to practice of performance comparison and result replications in Robotics Research

  • Organizers:

Fabio Bonsignorio (Univeristy Carlos III de Madrid)
Angel P. Del Pobi (Jaume I University)
John Hallam (University of Southern Denmark)

  • Date:

July 12

  • Venue:

McRae Room S418

  • Webcast:

W11 webcast

W12. Workshop on Aerial Robotics and the Quadrotor Platform

  • Organizers:

Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology)
Robert Mahony (Australian National Univiersity)
Roland Siegwart (ETHZ)

  • Date:

July 12

  • Venue:

Room S421

  • Webcast:

W12 webcast

 
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