WTEC PROJECT--US WORKSHOP

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Actual Agenda (July 25)

WED, JULY 21

• 8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee
• 9:00-9:30 Welcome and opening remarks Junku Yuh and other NSF Directors Dave Lavery, John Mankins and other NASA Directors YT Chien and other WTEC Staff [00y_WTEC_US.pdf 589 KB]
  Introductions of participants
  Structure of workshop (GB)

Session 1. Chair: George Bekey

• 9:30-10:00 Actuators and Mechanisms (Henry Asada [asada@mit.edu]) [01a_Asada-Status-Workshop-Actuators-7-21-04.pdf, 785 KB]
• 10:00-10:30 Microrobotics/Nanorobotics (Ari Requicha [requicha@usc.edu], Ron Fearing [ronf@eecs.berkeley.edu]) [NanoMicro.pdf, 102 KB]
  reference papers
  • Nanorobots, NEMS, and Nanoassembly
  • Micro and Meso Scale Robotic Assembly
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2. Chair: Junku Yuh

• 11:00-11:30 Humanoid robots (Rob Ambrose [Robert.O.Ambrose@nasa.gov], Una-May O'Reilly [unama@csail.mit.edu]) [02a_HuRo_combined_um_ra.pdf, 214 KB]
• 11:30-12:00 Physical Human-Robot Interaction (Oussama Khatib [ok@robotics.stanford.edu], Michael Peshkin [peshkin@northwestern.edu], Yoky Matsuoka [yoky@cs.cmu.edu]) [02b_WTECoral_pHRI.pdf, 672 KB]
• 12:00-12:30 Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (Cynthia Breazeal, Robin Murphy) [02c_cHuman-Robot Interaction.pdf, 30 KB]
  reference papers
  • Final Report for the DARPA/NSF Interdisciplinary Study on Human-Robot Interaction
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session 3. Chair: Manuela Veloso

• 1:30-2:00 Networked Robots (Ken Goldberg [goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu], Daniela Rus [rus@csail.mit.edu], Ning Xi [xin@egr.msu.edu]) [2004-07-WTEC-Networked-Robots-v15.pdf, 900 KB, updated 8/10/2004]
• 2:00-2:30 Multi-robot Systems (Lynne Parker [parker@cs.utk.edu], Maja Mataric [mataric@usc.edu], Manuela Veloso [veloso@cs.cmu.edu], Tucker Balch [tucker@cc.gatech.edu]) [03b_Multi-robot.pdf, 160 KB]
  reference papers
  • Editorial: Advances in Multi-Robot Systems
• 2:30-3:00 The World of Mapping (Howie Choset [choset@ri.cmu.edu], Dieter Fox [fox@cs.washington.edu]) [choset_mapping.pdf, 1283 KB, updated 8/10/2004]
   
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee break

Session 4. Chair: Rob Ambrose

• 3:30-4:00 Personal & Service Robotics (Robin Murphy murphy@csee.usf.edu, Helen Greiner [helen@irobot.com], Dan Kara, Paolo Pirjanian [paolo@evolution.com]) [WTEC 04a_Robotics Workshop - Personal & Service Robotics-071904.pdf, 717 KB]
• 4:00-4:30 Computer Vision (Gregory Hager [hager@cs.jhu.edu], Shree Nayar [nayar@cs.columbia.edu]) [robot_vision (Nayar).pdf, 1768 KB]
• 4:30-5:00 Robots, Vision, and Animal Behavior (Tucker Balch [tucker@cc.gatech.edu]) [balch-bio.pdf, 3963 KB]
• 5:00-5:30 Medical Robotics (Russ Taylor [rht@jhu.edu]) [TaylorMedicalRoboticsOverview.pdf, 3611 KB]
  reference papers
  • Medical Robotics in Computer-Integrated Surgery

THURSDAY, JULY 22

• 8:30-9:00 Coffee and mingling

Session 5. Chair: Art Sanderson

• 9:00-9:30 Status of Robotics in the US: Bio/Pharmaceutical (Brad Nelson [nelson@me.umn.edu], Yuan Zheng [zheng@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu]) [05a_nelson-zheng-WTEC-NSF.pdf, 3862 KB]
• 9:30-10:00 Educational Robotics: Assessment of State of Art in the United States (Illah Nourbakhsh [illah@cs.cmu.edu], David Miller [dmiller@kipr.org], Corinna Lathan [lathan@atinc.com], and Maja Mataric) [educational-robotics.pdf, 87 KB ]
• 10:00-10:30 Sensor/actuator networks (Gaurav Sukhatme [gaurav@usc.edu], Vijay Kumar [kumar@grasp.cis.upenn.edu]) [05c_sukhatme-kumar-sensornets.pdf, 502 KB]
   
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 6. Chair: Dave Lavery

• 11:00-11:30 Space robotics (Dave Akin [dakin@ssl.umd.edu], Paul Schenker [paul.s.schenker@jpl.nasa.gov], Brian Wilcox [Brian.H.Wilcox@jpl.nasa.gov]) [Space Robotics3.pdf, 140 KB]
  reference papers
  • Space Teleoperation Through Time Delay: Review and Prognosis
• 11:30-12:00 Military applications (Doug Gage [dgage@darpa.mil], Helen Greiner [helen@irobot.com]) [MilitaryRobots WTEC.pdf, 2525 KB]
• 12:00-12:30 Industrial applications (Maynard Holliday [maynard@evolution.com], Jason Tsai [ jason.tsai@fanucrobotics.com]) [WTEC Robotics Workshop - Industrial Applications-combined.pdf, 1219 KB, updated 8/10/2004]
   
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session 7. Chair: Yuan Zheng

• 1:30-2:00 Field robotics (Sanjiv Singh, Scott Thayer [sthayer@FRC2.frc.ri.cmu.edu], David Wettergreen [dsw@ri.cmu.edu]) [SOA-FieldRobotics04-part1.pdf, 384 KB]
• 2:00-2:30 Robotics and Robotics-inspired Algorithms for Molecular and Cellular Biology: Diagnostics, Genomics, Proteomics (Deirdre Meldrum [deedee@ee.washington.edu], Lydia Kavraki [kavraki@rice.edu ) [meldrum_updated_bio_applications_robotics_workshop_july2004.pdf, 334 KB, updated 8/10/2004]
  reference papers
  • Microfluidic devices for DNA sequencing: sample preparation and electrophoretic analysis
  • Automation for Genomics, Part One: Preparation for Sequencing
  • Automation for Genomics, Part Two: Sequencers, Microarrays, and Future Trends
  • Microfluidic devices fabricated in poly(dimethylsiloxane) for biological studies
• 2:30-3:00 Control, Software, Architectures (Tony Maciejewski [aam@colostate.edu, John Wen [wen@cat.rpi.edu]) [ControlSoftwareArchitecture.pdf, 29 KB]
  reference papers
  • Control of Robots and Manipulators
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee break

Session 8. Chair: Brian Wilcox

• 3:30-4:00 Entertainment (Dan Kara [dk@roboticstrends.com]) [Entertainment Robots.pdf, 622 KB]
• 4:00-4:30 Environmental Robotics (Dan Stilwell [stilwell@vt.edu], Art Sanderson [sandea@rpi.edu]) [WTEC_Env_Rob_3-0.pdf, 730 KB]
• 4:30-5:00 Rehabilitation Robotics and Assistive Robots (Vijay Kumar [kumar@grasp.cis.upenn.edu], George Bekey [bekey@usc.edu], Corinna E. Lathan [lathan@atinc.com]) [rehabv1.pdf, 300 KB]
  reference papers
  • Assistive Devices For People With Motor Disabilities
• 5:00-5:30 Underwater robotics (Junku Yuh [jyuh@nsf.gov], Louis Whitcomb [llw@jhu.edu]) [Yuh_Louis_WTEC_rev_27.pdf, 1424 KB]
   
• 5:30-6:00 Wrap-up and adjourn