Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Fall 2010

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Seminars are held, on a regular basis, Wednesdays in NSH 1507, unless otherwise noted on the calendar. Seminars begin at 4:00pm. Feel free to arrive early to get the first shot at the cookies and talk to your colleagues.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with a speaker, please contact the speaker if they are from CMU, or their host, listed on the calendar, if they are from outside of the University.

Information on the speaker, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name. The abstract, when available, can be viewed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host (Appointments)
September 8	Connection Vector Fields and Optimized Coordinates for Swimming Systems at Low and High Reynolds Numbers
	Ross Hatton	CMU	Howie Choset
October 6	Shape Models for Snake Robots
	Dave Rollinson	CMU	Howie Choset
October 27	An Equivalence Relation for Local Path Sets
	Ross Knepper	CMU	Howie Choset
November 2	Accurate, Low-Dimensional Modeling of Fully Elastic Robots
	Lael Odhner	Yale	Howie Choset
November 10	Razor Clam to RoboClam: Burrowing Drag Reduction Mechanisms and their Robotic Adaptation
	Amos Winter	MIT	Howie Choset
November 12	Grasp Invariance
	Alberto Rodriguez	CMU	Howie Choset
November 17	Approaching high-mobility maneuvers in legged and other hybrid dynamic systems.
	Hartmut Geyer	CMU	Howie Choset
December 1	Control of Instantaneously Coupled Systems Applied to Humanoid Walking
	Eric Whitman	CMU	Howie Choset
December 8	Human Sensing
	Fernando De la Torre	CMU	Howie Choset

For technical issues and final scheduling commitments, as well as opinions or suggestions on speakers and seminar topics, please contact Laura Lindzey by email.