Foundations of Robotics Seminar − Spring 2012

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Seminars are held, on a regular basis, Tuesdays in NSH 3305, unless otherwise noted on the calendar. 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.

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. A google calendar of the schedule is also available here.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host (Appointments)
January 12	Rescue mobile robot Quince: Toward emergency response to nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants on March 2011
	Keiji Nagatani	Tohoku University	Howie Choset
March 5	Symbiosis of Mobile Robotic Locomotion and Manipulation - Towards Modular and Reconfigurable Mobile Robotics on Rough Terrain
	Pinhas Ben-Tzvi	George Washington University	Howie Choset
April 12	Exploiting structure in man-made environments
	Alper Aydemir	KTH	Alvaro Collet
April 17	Leveraging low dimensional structure in motion planning and stochastic sequence analysis
	Paul Vernaza	Robotics Institute	Robbie Paolini
April 18	ASIMO Version 3
	Takashi Bannai	Honda Research Institute	Siddhartha Srinivasa
May 1	Predicting Contextual Sequences: Improving Robot Behavior via Submodular Function Maximization
	Dabadeepta Dey	Robotics Institute	Robbie Paolini

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