Recommended Daily Schedule of Events
Saturday8:30 - 9:00: Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00: suggested time for starting the workshop
10:30 - 11:00: coffee break
12:30 - 14:00: lunch break
15:30 - 16:00: coffee break
17:30 - 18:00: suggested time for completing the workshop
Sunday
8:00 - 8:30: Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30: suggested time for starting the workshop
10:00 - 10:20: coffee break
11:50 - 15:00: lunch break + world cup final streaming in main auditorium (boxed lunch and drinks provided, but unfortunately no food/drinks allowed in auditorium)
16:30 - 17:00: coffee break
18:30 - 19:00: suggested time for completing the workshop
Summary of workshop speakers schedules
SATURDAY WORKSHOPS - JULY 12
SAT1. 5th Workshop on Formal Methods for Robotics and Automation
| Organizers: | Hadas Kress-Gazit (Cornell), Calin Belta (Boston University) | ||
| Room: | 123 |
SAT2. 5th Workshop on RGB-D Perception: Reconstruction and Recognition
| Organizers: | Hema Koppula (Cornell), Jianxiong Xiao (Princeton), Ashutosh Saxena (Cornell), John Leonard (MIT) | ||
| Room: | 200 |
SAT3. Autonomous Control, Adaptation, and Learning for Underwater Vehicles
| Organizers: | Geoff Hollinger (Oregon State University), M. Ani Hsieh (Drexel University), Franz Hover (MIT), Ryan Smith (Fort Lewis College) | ||
| Room: | 130 |
SAT4. DARPA Robotics Challenge: Lessons Learned and What's Next
| Organizers: | Maurice Fallon (MIT), Scott Kuindersma (MIT) | ||
| Room: | 110 |
SAT5. Distributed Control and Estimation for Robotic Vehicle Networks
| Organizers: | Nisar Ahmed (University of Colorado, Boulder), Sonia Martinez (UCSD), Jorge Cortes (UCSD) | ||
| Room: | 20 |
SAT6. Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation—How Can We Close the Gap?
| Organizers: | Oliver Brock (Technische Universität Berlin), Dmitry Berenson (WPI), Jim Mainprice (WPI), Maximo Roa (DLR), Clemens Eppner (Technische Universität Berlin) | ||
| Room: | 210 |
SAT7. Human–Robot Collaboration for Industrial Manufacturing
| Organizers: | Allison Sauppé (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Matthew Gombolay (MIT), Julie Shah (MIT), Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | ||
| Room: | 101 |
SAT8. Moral, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Robotics
| Organizers: | Jeremy Gillula (UC Berkeley), Jennifer Urban (UC Berkeley) | ||
| Room: | 203 |
SAT9. Non-parametric Learning in Robotics
| Organizers: | Rudolph Triebel (Technical University of Munich), Luciano Spinello (University of Freiburg) | ||
| Room: | 220 |
SAT10. Optimization Techniques for Motion Generation in Robotics
| Organizers: | Adrien Escande (CNRS/AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory), Katja Mombaur (University of Heidelberg) | ||
| Room: | 213 |
| Organizers: | Darius Burschka (TU Munich), Michael Suppa (DLR), Roland Siegwart (ETH Zürich), Korbinian Schmid (DLR), Markus Achtelik (ETH Zürich) | ||
| Room: | 106 |
SAT12. Robot Makers: The Future of Digital Rapid Design and Fabrication of Robots
| Organizers: | Ankur Mehta (MIT), Mike Tolley (Harvard), Nicola Bezzo (UPenn), Cagdas Onal (WPI) | ||
| Room: | 122 |
SAT13. Workshop on Robotics Methods for Structural and Dynamic Modeling of Molecular Systems
| Organizers: | Lydia Tapia (University of New Mexico), Juan Cort´s (LAAS/CNRS), Jianlin Jack Cheng (Missouri), Amarda Shehu (George Mason) Kasra Manavi (University of New Mexico) | ||
| Room: | 206 |
SAT14. Workshop on Women in Robotics
| Organizers: | Joelle Pineau (McGill University), Andrea Tomaz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Maren Bennewitz (University of Freiburg), Leila Takayama (Google) | ||
| Room: | 100 |
SUNDAY WORKSHOPS - JULY 13
SUN1. Affordances in Vision for Cognitive Robotics
| Organizers: | Karthik Mahesh Varadarajan (Technical University of Vienna), Markus Vincze (Technical University of Vienna), Trevor Darrell (University of California, Berkeley), Jürgen Gall (University of Bonn) | ||
| Room: | 100 |
| Organizers: | Daniela Rus (MIT), Stephanie Gil (MIT), Nora Ayanian (USC), Swarun Kumar (MIT) | ||
| Room: | 122 |
SUN3. Constrained Decision-making in Robotics: Models, Algorithms, and Applications
| Organizers: | Stefano Carpin (University of California, Merced), Marco Pavone (Stanford University) | ||
| Room: | 210 |
SUN4. Dynamic Locomotion
| Organizers: | Aaron Ames (Texas A&M), Koushil Sreenath (CMU) | ||
| Room: | 220 |
SUN5. Guaranteed Safety for Uncertain Robotic Systems
| Organizers: | Jeremy Gillula (UC Berkeley), Shahab Kaynama (UC Berkeley) | ||
| Room: | 24 |
SUN6. Humans and Sensing in Cyber-Physical Systems
| Organizers: | Anil Aswani (UC Berkeley), Ram Vasudevan (MIT) | ||
| Room: | 203 |
SUN7. Information-based Grasp and Manipulation Planning
| Organizers: | Sachin Patil (UC Berkeley), Robert Platt Jr. (Northeastern University) | ||
| Room: | 200 |
SUN8. Learning Plans with Context from Human Signals
| Organizers: | Drew Bagnell (CMU), Ashesh Jain (Cornell), Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt), Ashutosh Saxena (Cornell) | ||
| Room: | 123 |
SUN9. Managing Software Variability in Robot Control Systems
| Organizers: | Davide Brugali (University of Bergamo), Christian Schlegel (Fakultät Informatik Hochschule Ulm) | ||
| Duration: | Half Day | ||
| Room: | 206 |
SUN10. Next-Generation Robotics: Academia, Start-ups and Industry
| Organizers: | Sachin Chitta (SRI International), Ioan Sucan (Google Inc.), Torsten Kroeger (Stanford University) | ||
| Room: | 110 |
SUN11. Self-Driving Vehicles: Technology and Policy
| Organizers: | John Leonard (MIT), Jesse Levinson (Stanford) | ||
| Room: | 213 |
SUN12. Advances on Soft Robotics
| Organizers: | Cecilia Laschi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna), Fumiya Iida (ETH), Jonathan Rossiter (University of Bristol), Laura Margheri (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) | ||
| Room: | 106 |
SUN13. Workshop on Multi-View Geometry in Robotics (MVIGRO 2014)
| Organizers: | Vadim Indelman (GaTech), Luca Carlone (GaTech), Frank Dellaert (GaTech) | ||
| Duration: | Half Day | ||
| Room: | 130 |
SUN14. Workshop on Robotic Monitoring
| Organizers: | Andreas Breitenmoser (USC), Jorg Muller (USC), Jnaneshwar Das (USC), Ryan Smith (USC), Carrick Detweiler (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln) | ||
| Room: | 101 |
Workshops Chairs
Kostas Bekris Rutgers University, USASertac Karaman MIT, USA
Workshops Program Committee
Srinivas Akella University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USATim Bretl University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Marc Deisenroth Imperial College London, UK
Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Turkey
Tom Henderson University of Utah, UT, USA
Seth Hutchinson University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Sven Koenig University of Southern California, CA, USA
Kostas Kyriakopoulos National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Ming Lin University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill, USA
Dan Magazzeni King's College London, UK
Jose Neira University of Zaragoza, Spain
Monica Nicolescu University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
Erion Plaku The Catholic University of America, DC, USA
Ingmar Posner University of Oxford, UK
Siddhartha Srinivasa Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
Cyrill Stachniss University of Freiburg, Germany