CIRA'97 Advanced Program

(Summary | Detailed)

July 9, 1997 (Wednesday)
7:30 AM - 17:30 PM Registration
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Tutorial 1.1 and 1.2
Tutorial 1.1: An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation
by David B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc.
Tutorial 1.2: Design of Computational Intelligence Models for Robotics
by I.B. Turksen, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto.
12:00 PM - 13:30 PM Lunch Break
13:30 PM - 17:30 PM Tutorial 2.1 and 2.2
Tutorial 2.1: Real and Virtual Robotic Systems: Sensing, Simulation, and Interfaces
by Mohan M. Trivedi and Chuxin Chen, Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory, University of California at San Diego.
Tutorial 2.2: Autonomous Learning Algorithms for Autonomous Robots
by Asim Roy, Computer Information Systems Group, Arizona State University.

July 10, 1997 (Thursday)
7:50 AM - 8:00 AM Welcoming Remarks
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM Plenary Talk I:
Engineering Intelligent Systems
by James S. Albus, NIST.

Plenary Talk II:
Spatial Navigation and Memory for Places

by Michael Recce, U. College London.

9:20 AM - 9:30 AM Break
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM Parallel Sessions: Th1-1 & Th2-1
Session Th1-1: Learning and Control of Motions
Session Th2-1: Navigational Map Construction and Localization
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM Parallel Sessions: Th1-2 & Th2-2
Session Th1-2: Learning for Sensor-Based Manipulation
Session Th2-2: Intelligent Control for Navigation
12:20 PM - 13:40 PM Lunch Break
13:40 PM - 14:10 PM Special Lecture I: Learning in Robotic Systems
by George A. Bekey, USC.
14:10 PM - 14:20 PM Break
14:20 PM - 15:40 PM Parallel Sessions: Th1-3 & Th2-3
Session Th1-3: Biological Inspired Robotics (Invited)
Session Th2-3: Path Planning
15:40 PM - 15:50 PM Break
15:50 PM - 17:10 PM Parallel Sessions: Th1-4 & Th2-4
Session Th1-4: Learning and Control for Locomotion
Session Th2-4: Exploration of Environments with Sonars
17:10 PM - 17:20 PM Break
17:20 PM - 18:40 PM Parallel Sessions: Th1-5 & Th2-5
Session Th1-5: Intelligent Systems with Q-learning
Session Th2-5: Motion Planning
18:40 PM - 19:00 PM Break
19:00 PM - 21:00 PM Banquet with Keynote Speech:
From Vision to Action via Distributed Computation
by Michael Arbib, USC.

July 11, 1997 (Friday)
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM Plenary Talks III:
Adaptation, Learning and Evolution for Intelligent Robotic Systems
by Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya U.

Plenary Talk IV:
Fusion of Human and Machine Intelligence for Telerobotic Systems
by Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington U.

9:20 AM - 9:30 AM Break
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM Parallel Sessions: F1-1 & F2-1
Session F1-1: NN-Based Function Approximation for Arm Control
Session F2-1: Sequential Decision-Making
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM Parallel Sessions: F1-2 & F2-2
Session F1-2: Sensor Fusion
Session F2-2: Behavioral Synthesis
12:20 PM - 13:40 PM Lunch Break
13:40 PM - 14:30 PM Panel Discussions (Chair: Carme Torras):
Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation: Present Challenges and Future Directions
14:30 PM - 15:00 PM Special Lecture II: The Museum Tourguide Project: Experience with a Deployed Service Robot
by Sebastian Thrun, CMU.
15:00 PM - 15:10 PM Break
15:10 PM - 16:30 PM Parallel Sessions: F1-3 & F2-3
Session F1-3: Evolutionary Computation
Session F2-3: Intelligent Control of Robots
16:30 PM - 16:40 PM Break
16:40 PM - 18:00 PM Parallel Sessions: F1-4 & F2-4
Session F1-4: Robot Dynamics and Control
Session F2-4: Visual Recognition of Shapes and Targets
18:00 PM - 18:10 PM Break
18:10 PM - 19:30 PM Parallel Sessions: F1-5 & F2-5
Session F1-5: Robot Skills
Session F2-5: Vision-Based Tracking
19:30 PM - 19:40 PM Break
19:40 PM - 20:40 PM Closing Reception and Best Paper Award

Last updated May 29, 1997 by Michael C. Nechyba (austrian@ri.cmu.edu)