APRIL 22, 2013
		Lobby	Room 1
7:00 AM	8:00 AM	Registration
8:00 AM	9:30 AM	Registration & Exhibits	Plenary Sessions 1, 2 David Audet, NSRDEC Helen Greiner, CyPhy Works
9:30 AM	10:00 AM	Coffee Break Sponsor:
10:00 AM	11:10 AM	Registration & Exhibits	Session 1: Industrial Robotics Developing Baxter: A New Industrial Robot with Common Sense for U.S. Manufacturing Cliff Fitzgerald, Rethink Robotics, USA Precise Truss Assembly using Commodity Parts and Imprecise Welding Erik Komendera, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Dustin REishus, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Nikolaus Correll, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Small Part Assembly Using Partial Fixturing Technique Jianjun Wang, ABB Inc., USA Gregory Rossano, ABB Inc., USA Thomas A. Fuhlbrigge, ABB Inc., USA Lead-Through Robot Teaching: A New Method and Approach Sang Choi, ABB Inc., USA Gregory Rossano, ABB Inc., USA Thomas A. Fuhlbrigge, ABB Inc., USA
11:20 AM	12:30 PM	Registration & Exhibits	Session 2: Localization and Navigation Challenges of Designing a Low-Cost Indoor Localization System Using Active Beacons Jens-Steffen Gutmann, iRobot Corp., USA Philip Fong, iRobot Corp., USA Lihu Chiu, iRobot Corp., USA Mario E. Munich, iRobot Corp., USA Motion Control for Intelligent Ground Vehicles Based on the Selection of Paths Using Fuzzy Inference Shiwei Wang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Adam C. Panzica, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA CUDA Accelerated Robot Localization and Mapping Haiyang Zhang, University of Massachuetts Lowell, USA Fred Martin, University of Massachuetts Lowell, USA Development of a Low-Cost, Self-Contained Combined Vision and Inertial Navigation System Justin M. Barrett, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA William R. Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Michael D. Audi, Autonomous Exploration, Inc., USA Julian L. Center Jr., Autonomous Exploration, Inc., USA James F. Kirk, Autonomous Exploration, Inc., USA
12:30 PM	1:30 PM	Lunch Sponsor:
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Registration & Exhibits	Plenary Sessions 3, 4 Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech Elaine Chen, Rethink Robotics
3:00 PM	3:30 PM	Coffee Break Sponsor:
3:30 PM	4:40 PM	Registration & Exhibits	Session 3: Autonomous Vehicles GPU Assisted Processing of Point cloud Data Sets for Ground Segmentation in Autonomous Vehicles Stuart P. Baker, United States Military Academy, USA Robert W. Sadowski, United States Military Academy, USA Towards the Realization of Mobile Manipulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MM-UAV): Peg-in-Hole Insertion Tasks Christopher Korpela, Drexel University, USA Pareshkumar Brahmbhatt, Drexel University, USA Matko Orsag, University of Zagreb, Croatia Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA “Off the Grid”: Self-Contained Landmarks for Improved Indoor Probabilistic Localization Eric McCann, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Mikhail Medvedev, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Daniel J. Brooks, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Kate Saenko, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Proposal for the Initiation of General and Military Specific Benchmarking of Robotic Convoys Paul Maxwell, United States Military Academy, USA Joshua Rykowski, United States Military Academy, USA Gregory Hurlock, United States Military Academy, USA
4:50 PM	6:00 PM	Registration & Exhibits	Session 4: Mechanisms and Manipulation Toward A User-Guided Manipulation Framework for High-DOF Robots with Limited Communication Nicholas Alunni, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Halit Bener Suay, Worcester Institute, USA Daniel Lofaro, Drexel University, USA Dmitry Berenson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Sonia Chernova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Robert W. Lindeman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA Development of the Skewed Rotation Plane (SRP) Joint for Humanoid Robots Robert W. Ellenberg, Drexel University, USA Richard Vallett, Drexel University, USA RJ. Gross, Drexel University, USA Brittany Nutt, Drexel University, USA Paul Y. Oh, Drexel University, USA Continuous Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Humanoid Door Opening Matt Zucker, Swarthmore College, USA Youngbum Jun, Drexel Autonomous Systems Library, USA Brittany Killen, Drexel Autonomous Systems Library, USA Tae-Goo Kim, Drexel Autonomous Systems Library, USA Paul Oh, Drexel Autonomous Systems Library, USA Linear One-to-Many (OTM) System Thane R. Hunt, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Christopher J. Berthelette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Marko B. Popovic, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
6:00 PM	8:00 PM	Reception Sponsor:
APRIL 23, 2013
8:00 AM	9:30 AM	Registration & Exhibits	Plenary Sessions 5, 6 Ohad Shvueli, PrimeSense Mark Micire, NASA
9:30 AM	10:00 AM	Coffee Break Sponsor:
10:00 AM	11:10 AM	Registration & Exhibits	Session 5: Interaction Design and Development of Hugo and Margo, Two Semi-Autonomous Social Telepresence Robots Katherine M. Tsui, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Adam Norton, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Daniel J. Brooks, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Eric McCann, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Mikhail S. Medvedev, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Holly A. Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Human-Human Interaction Using a Behavioural Control Strategy Paramin Neranon, Newcastle University, UK Robert Bicker, Newcastle University, UK Humanoid Robot Teleoperation for Tasks with Power Tools Rowland O'Flaherty, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Peter Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA M.X. Grey, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA Aaron Bobick, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mike Stilman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Use of Unobtrusive Human-Machine Interface for Rehabilitation of Stroke Victims through Robot Assisted Mirror Therapy Gautam Narang, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering New Delhi, India Arjun Narang, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India Soumya Singh, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering New Delhi, India Juhani Lempiainen, Deltatron Oy Ltd., Finland
11:20 AM	12:30 PM	Registration & Exhibits	Session 6: Motion Planning Motion Planning of Ladder Climbing for Humanoid Robots Yajia Zhang, School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, USA Jingru Luo, School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, USA Kris Hauser, School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, USA Robert Ellenberg, Drexel University, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA H. Andy Park, Purdue University, USA Manas Paldhe, Purdue University, USA Planning Complex Physical Tasks for Disaster Response with a Humanoid Robot Hao Dang, Columbia University, USA Youngbum Jun, Drexel University, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA Peter K. Allen, Columbia University, USA Vision Enhanced Reactive Locomotion Control for Trotting on Rough Terrain Stephane Bazeille, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy Victor Barasuol, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil Michele Focchi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy Ioannis Havoutis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy Marco Frigerio, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy Jonas Buchli, Agile & Dexterous Robotics Lab (ETH), Switzerland Claudio Semini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy Darwin G. Caldwell, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy Humanoid Robots Walking on Grass, Sands and Rocks Y.F. Zheng, The Ohio State University, USA H. Wang, The Ohio State University, USA S. Li, The Ohio State University, USA Y. Liu, The Ohio State University, USA D. Orin, The Ohio State University, USA Kiwon Sohn, Drexel University, USA Youngbum Jun, Drexel University, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA
12:30 PM	1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Registration Closed	Session 7: Perception Towards Functional Labeling of Utility Vehicle Point Clouds for Humanoid Driving Christopher Rasmussen, University of Delaware, USA Karthikeyan Yuvraj, Drexel University, USA Richard Vallett, Drexel University, USA Kiwon Sohn, Drexel University, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA An Application of Fuzzy DL-Based Semantic Perception to Soil Container Classification Markus Eich, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany A Multi-Baseline Stereo System for Scene Segmentation in Natural Environments Annalisa Milella, Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation National Research Council, Italy Ciulio Reina, University of Salento, Italy Facial Recognition Using Human Visual System Algorithms for Robotic and UAV Platforms Nicholas Davis, Tufts University, USA Francesco Pittaluga, Tufts University, USA Karen Panett, Tufts University, USA Influence of Situation Awareness on Control Allocation for Remote Robots Munjal Desai, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Mikhail Medvedev, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Marynel Vazquez, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sean McSheehy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Sofia Gadea-Omelchenko, University of Pittsburgh, USA Christian Bruggeman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Holly Yanco, University of Pittsburgh, USA
3:00 PM	3:30 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	4:40 PM	Registration Closed	Session 8: Software tf: The Transform Library Tully Foote, Willow Garage, USA Multi-Process Control Software for Humanoid Robots M.X. Grey, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Neil Dantam, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Daniel M. Lofaro, Drexel University, USA Aaron Bobick, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Paul Oh, Drexel University, USA Mike Stilman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Dynamic State Charts: Composition and Coordination of Complex Robot Behavior and Reuse of Action Plot Dennis Stampfer, University of Applied Sciences, Ulm Christian Schlegel, University of Applied Sciences, Ulm Optical-guided Autonomous Docking Algorithm for Underwater Reconfigurable Robot Donny Sutantyo, University of Stuttgart, Germany David Buntoro, University of Stuttgart, Germany Pual Levi, University of Stuttgart, Germany Stefano Mintchev, The Biorobotic Institute, Italy Cesare Stefanini, The Biorobotic Institute, Italy
4:50 PM	6:00 PM	Registration Closed	Session 9: Sensors IMU and Cable Encoder Data Fusion for In-Pipe Mobile Robot Localization Andreu Corominas Murtra, CETaqua, Water Technological Center, Spain Josep M. Mirats Tur, CETaqua, Water Technological Center, Spain Design of a 2D Joystick for Robot Control Based on a 6 DOF Haptic Device Daniel J. Brooks, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Michael Lunderville, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Holly A. Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Portable Aerial Surveillance System (IPASS) Adam Blumenau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Alec Ishak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Brett Limone, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Zachary Mintz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Corey Russell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Adrian Sudol, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA RJ Linton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Lifeng Lai, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Richard Van Hook, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Development of Modular Sensors for Semi-autonomous Wheelchairs Ross Desmond, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Matthew Dickerman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA James Fleming, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Dmitry Sinyukov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Jerome Schaufeld, Worcester Polytechic Institute, USA Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA