Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2007

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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)
January 29	Geometric Methods for Dynamically Complex Manipulation Planning and Control
	Todd Murphey	University of Colorado at Boulder	Howie Choset (Amir Degani)
February 5

February 12	Morse theory, singularity theory, and gripping smooth objects
	Steve Ferry	Rutgers	Matt Mason (Alberto Rodriguez)
February 19

February 26	Online Grasp Generation in Complex Environments
	Dmitry Berenson	Carnegie Mellon University	Dmitry Berenson
March 4	Tracking in Bipedal Domains
	Garratt Gallagher	Carnegie Mellon University	Garratt Gallagher
March 11	Spring Break - NO CFR Seminar

March 18	Adaptive workspace biasing for sampling-based planners
	Matthew Zucker	Carnegie Mellon University	Matthew Zucker
March 25	Imitation Learning for Locomotion and Manipulation
	Nathan Ratliff	Carnegie Mellon University	Nathan Ratliff
April 1

April 15 Smith Hall 100	Mobile manipulation for household tasks
	Rosen Diankov	Carnegie Mellon University	Rosen Diankov
April 22 NSH 1305	Curious Creatures: Biomimetic Novelties for Robot Development Involving Arthropods
	John Rawlins	Carnegie Museum of Natural History	Howie Choset
April 29

May 6

May 13	ICRA 2008 Practice talks
	Ross A. Knepper Stephen Tully	Carnegie Mellon University	Alberto Rodriguez
May 20 - No CFR - ICRA 2008	No CFR - ICRA 2008

Seminars are held on Tuesdays in NSH 1507, unless otherwise noted on the calendar or abstract. Seminars begin at 4:30pm. 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.

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