Recommended Daily Schedule of Events

Saturday
8:30 - 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

SAT11. Resource-efficient Integration of Planning and Perception for True Autonomous Operation of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs)

  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

SUN2. Communication-aware Robotics: New Tools for Multi-Robot Networks, Autonomous Vehicles, and Localization

  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, USA
Sertac Karaman MIT, USA

 

Workshops Program Committee

Srinivas Akella University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Tim 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