Robotics@MIT Seminar Series 2016
Adam Bry, Skydio
Algorithms and challenges in scaling up autonomous flight
Speaker(s): Adam Bry
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Kiva/Patil)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Patrick Wensing, MIT Mechancial Engineering
Control Design for Legged Robots: Physical Principles Enabling Dynamic Mobility
Speaker(s): Patrick Wensing
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Kris Hauser, Duke University
Motion Planning for Real World Robots
Speaker(s): Kris Hauser
Date: Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Cynthia Sung, MIT CSAIL
Computational Tools for Robot Design: A Composition Approach
Speaker(s): Cynthia Sung
Date: Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Kiva/Patil
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Emma Brunskill, CMU
Learning to Make Good Decisions in Noisy, Stochastic, Costly Domains
Speaker(s): Emma Brunskill
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Kiva/Patil
Contact: nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Kostas Bekris, Rutgers University
Algorithmic Tradeoffs in Robot Motion Planning
Speaker(s): Kostas Bekris
Date: Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Kiva/Patil)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Sidd Srinivasa, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Physics-based Manipulation
Speaker(s): Sidd Srinivasa
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Seth Hutchinson, University of Illinois
Robust Distributed Control Policies for Multi-Robot Systems
Speaker(s): Seth Hutchinson
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Edwin Olson,
Reliable robots: failing without failing
Speaker(s): Edwin Olson
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Dorsa Sadigh, EECS Department - UC Berkeley
Towards a Theory of Human-Cyber-Physical Systems
Speaker(s): Dorsa Sadigh
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Brenna Argall, Northwestern University / Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
Speaker(s): Brenna Argall
Date: Tuesday, October 04, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Tom Howard, University of Rochester
Learning Models for Robot Decision Making
Speaker(s): Tom Howard
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Kiva/Patil)
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Alberto Rodriguez, MIT
Feedback Control of the Pusher-Slider: A Story of Hybrid and Underactuated Contact Dynamics
Speaker(s): Alberto Rodriguez
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
George Konidaris, Brown University
Robot Motion Planning on a Chip
Speaker(s): George Konidaris
Date: Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Sertac Karaman, MIT
Control of High-performance Autonomous Vehicle and Their Systems
Speaker(s): Sertac Karaman
Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Inna Sharf, McGill University
Towards Greater Autonomy and Safety of UAVs: Recovering from Collisions
Speaker(s): Inna Sharf
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Liam Paull, lpaull@csail.mit.edu
Marc Toussaint, University of Stuttgart
Challenges in Robotic AI
Speaker(s): Marc Toussaint
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Kiva/Patil)
Contact: Stephen Proulx, steve@csail.mit.edu
Alexander Herzog, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Momentum-centric whole-body control and kino-dynamic motion generation for floating-base robots
Speaker(s): Alexander Herzog
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Erion Plaku, Catholic University of America
From High-Level Tasks to Robot Motions: Combined Task and Motion Planning as Hybrid Search over Discrete and Continuous Spaces
Speaker(s): Erion Plaku
Date: Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Alexander Wallar, 240-470-8491, wallar@csail.mit.edu
Amanda Prorok, University of Pennsylvania
Diversity, Privacy, and Resilience in Robot Networks
Speaker(s): Amanda Prorok
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Kiva/Patil
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Benjamin Kuipers,
How Can We Trust a Robot?
Speaker(s): Benjamin Kuipers
Date: Monday, January 30, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room D463 (Star)
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu