The Third Annual New England Manipulation Symposium

NEMS 2007 will be hosted by RPI on June 1st, 2007.


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Time
Speaker
Title
9:30-9:40 Volkan Isler, RPI Welcome and opening remarks
9:40-10:00
Steve Berard, RPI Simulation and Analysis with daVinci Code
slides | movies
10:00-10:20
Steve Hart, UMass-Amherst Natural Task Decomposition with Intrinsic Potential Fields
slides
10:20-10:40
Corey Goldefeder, Columbia
Picking Up the Pieces: Grasp Planning via Decomposition Trees.
slides
10:40-11:00
Dan Grollman, Brown
Learning the Elements of Robot Soccer from Demonstration
slides
11:00-11:20
Break

11:20-11:40
Robert Platt, NASA
Grasp Control: Theory and Practice
slides
11:40-12:00 Kate Tsui, UMass-Lowell
Development of Vision-Based Navigation and Manipulation for a Robotic Wheelchair
slides
12:00-12:20
Nilanjan Chakraborty, RPI
An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact
slides
12:20-1:50
LUNCH BREAK
Lunch @ LCVGR and poster presentations by CS Robotics Students
1:50-2:10
Matei Ciocarlie, Columbia
Dexterous Grasping via Eigengrasps: A Low-Dimensional Approach to a High-Complexity Problem
slides
2:10-2:30 Aggeliki Tsoli, Brown
Sparse Control of the DLR Robot Hand
slides
2:30-2:50 Leng-Feng Lee, Buffalo
A Standardized Testing-Ground for Artificial Potential-Field based Motion Planning for Robot Collectives
2:50-3:10
Break

3:10-3:30
Aaron Dollar, MIT
Simple Robust Grasping in Unstructured Environments
slides
3:30-3:50
Chin Pei Tang, Buffalo
Decoupled Dynamic Control of a Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Manipulators
slides
3:50-4:10
Dubi Katz, UMass-Amherst Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception
slides
4:10-4:30
Brendan Burns, Union College Motion Planning in the Real World
slides
4:30
Jeff Trinkle
Closing Remarks