Robotics@MIT Seminar Series 2017

Sumeet Singh, Stanford University
Robust and Risk-Sensitive Planning via Contraction Theory and Convex Optimization
Speaker(s): Sumeet Singh
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Stephen Proulx, steve@csail.mit.edu
Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg
Deep Learning for Robot Navigation and Perception
Speaker(s): Wolfram Burgard
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Lex Fridman, MIT
Human-in-the-Loop: Deep Learning for Shared Autonomy in Naturalistic Driving
Speaker(s): Lex Fridman
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Grace Gao, UIUC
Robust Navigation: From UAVs to Robot Swarms
Speaker(s): Grace Gao
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G 449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Jon Kelly, UTIAS
Getting More from What You've Already Got: Improving Stereo Visual Odometry Using Deep Visual Illumination Estimation
Speaker(s): Jon Kelly
Date: Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Sonia Chernova, Georgia Tech
Toward Resilient Robot Autonomy through Learning, Interaction and Semantic Reasoning
Speaker(s): Sonia Chernova
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Julie Shah, MIT
Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates
Speaker(s): Julie Shah
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Jonathan Clark, Florida State University
Dynamics, Design, and Control of Legged Robots that Rapidly Run and Climb
Speaker(s): Jonathan Clark
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Robert Platt, Northeastern University
Robotic Manipulation Without Geometric Models
Speaker(s): Robert Platt
Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal
Adversarial learning for generative models and inference
Speaker(s): Aaron Courville
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Marco Hutter, ETH Zurich
Legged robots and mobile manipulation
Speaker(s): Marco Hutter
Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
Sudeep Pillai, MIT EECS
Thesis Defense: SLAM-aware, Self-Supervised Perception in Mobile Robots (Sudeep Pillai)
Speaker(s): Sudeep Pillai
Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: John J. Leonard, jleonard@csail.mit.edu
Marc Toussaint, University of Stuttgart
Sufficient Symbols to Make Optimization-Based Manipulation Planning Tractable
Speaker(s): Marc Toussaint
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Spring Berman, Arizona State University
A Control and Estimation Framework for Robotic Swarms in Uncertain Environments
Speaker(s): Spring Berman
Date: Tuesday, October 03, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell
Synthesis for robots: guarantees and feedback for complex behaviors
Speaker(s): Hadas Kress-Gazit
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Jeff Mahler , UC Berkeley
The Dexterity Network: Deep Learning to Plan Robust Robot Grasps using Datasets of Synthetic Point Clouds, Analytic Grasp Metrics, and 3D Object Models
Speaker(s): Jeff Mahler
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Stephen Proulx, steve@csail.mit.edu
Charlie Kemp, Georgia Tech
Mobile Manipulators for Intelligent Physical Assistance
Speaker(s): Charlie Kemp
Date: Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Rob MacCurdy, MIT
Multicellular Machines: A Bio-inspired approach to automated electromechanical design and fabrication
Speaker(s): Rob MacCurdy
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Gaurav Sukhatme, USC
Robots at Sea
Speaker(s): Gaurav Sukhatme
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
This event has been cancelled. Cynthia Breazeal, MIT
Toward Personal Robots and Daily Life
Speaker(s): Cynthia Breazeal
Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 Patil/Kiva
Contact: Nick Roy, nickroy@csail.mit.edu
Sanjay Krishnan, UC Berkeley
Dirty Data, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence
Speaker(s): Sanjay Krishnan
Date: Friday, December 15, 2017
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Star (32-D463)
Contact: Leslie Kaelbling, lpk@csail.mit.edu