Technical Program
AT RSS, poster and oral presentations are of the same quality. The assignment is based on a variety of factors including the area balance, etc., and is not related to the quality. In the past best paper awards have often come out of the poster presentations.
Robotics: Science and Systems 2010 will be hosted by the Universidad de Zaragoza in Zaragoza, Spain, from Sunday, June 27 through Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30-11:00 | Workshops session 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Workshops session 2 | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Workshops session 3 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Workshops session 4 | |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | |
| 9:00-11:00 | Workshops session 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Workshops session 2 | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-14:40 | Opening session | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Vijay Kumar | |
| 14:40-15:40 | Invited talk | Interaction Networks as Distributed Algorithms in Ants |
| 15:40-16:10 | Oral 1 | Biophysically inspired development of a sand-swimming robot Ryan Maladen, Yang Ding, Paul Umbanhowar, Adam Kamor, Daniel Goldman. |
| 16:10-16:40 | Oral 2 | Passive torque regulation in an underactuated flapping wing robotic insect Pratheev Sreetharan, Robert Wood. |
| 16:40-17:00 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Ken Goldberg | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Oral 3 | Color-Accurate Underwater Imaging using Perceptual Adaptive Illumination Iuliu Vasilescu, Carrick Detweiler, Daniela Rus. |
| 17:30-18:00 | Poster spotlight 1-10 |
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| 18:00-18:30 | Poster spotlight 11-20 |
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| 18:30-19:00 | Break | |
| Session 3 | Poster session and cocktail | |
| 19:00-22:00 | Poster session | Probabilistic Lane Estimation using Basis Curves Albert Huang, Seth Teller. Reinforcement Learning to adjust Robot Movements to New Situations Jens Kober, Jan Peters. Analysis and Control of a Dissipative Spring-Mass Hopper with Torque Actuation M. Mert Ankarali and Uluc Saranli. On motion and force controllability of grasping hands with postural synergies Domenico Prattichizzo, Monica Malvezzi, Antonio Bicchi. Back-drivable and Inherently Safe Mechanism for Artificial Finger Koichi Koganezawa. Segmentation and Unsupervised Hierarchical Discovery of Repetitive Objects Rudolph Triebel, Jiwon Shin, Roland Siegwart. Scale Drift-Aware Large Scale Monocular SLAM Hauke Strasdat, José María Martínez Montiel, Andrew Davison. Preliminary Results in Decentralized Estimation for Single-Beacon Acoustic Underwater Navigation Sarah Webster, Louis Whitcomb, Ryan Eustice. A Non-invasive Real-Time Method for Measuring Variable Stiffness Giorgio Grioli, Antonio Bicchi. Consistent data association in multi-robot systems with limited communications Rosario Aragues, Eduardo Montijano, Carlos Sagues. Singularity-invariant leg rearrangements in doubly-planar Stewart-Gough platforms Julia Borras Sol, Federico Thomas, Carme Torras. On the kinematic design of exoskeletons and their fixations with a human member Nathanael Jarrasse, Guillaume Morel. Assessing Optimal Assignment under Uncertainty: An Interval-based Algorithm Lantao Liu, Dylan Shell. LQG-MP: Optimized Path Planning for Robots with Motion Uncertainty and Imperfect State Information Jur van den Berg, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg. The Smooth Curvature Flexure Model: An Accurate, Low-Dimensional Approach for Robot Analysis Lael Odhner, Aaron Dollar. Multi-Priority Cartesian Impedance Control Robert Platt, Muhammad Abdallah, Charles Wampler. Variable Impedance Control - A Reinforcement Learning Approach Jonas Buchli, Evangelos Theodorou, Freek Stulp, Stefan Schaal. A Fast Traversal Heuristic and Optimal Algorithm for Effective Environmental Coverage Ling Xu, Tony Stentz. Stochastic Complementarity for Local Control of Discontinuous Dynamics Yuval Tassa, Emanuel Todorov. Distributed Optimization with Pairwise Constraints and its Application to Multi-robot Path Planning Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Vijay Kumar, Maxim Likachev. |
| 22:00 | Adjourn | |
| Session 4 | Chair: Dieter Fox | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited talk | Third Generation Machine Intelligence Christopher M. Bishop |
| 10:00-10:30 | Oral 4 | PLISS: Detecting and Labeling Places Using Online Change-Point Detection Ananth Ranganathan. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Oral 5 | A Constant-Time Algorithm for Vector Field SLAM using an Exactly Sparse Extended Information Filter Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Ethan Eade, Philip Fong, Mario Munich. |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session 5 | Chair: Kurt Konolige | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Oral 6 | Efficient probabilistic planar robot motion estimation given pairs of images Olaf Booij, Zoran Zivkovic, Ben Kröse. |
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Oral 7 | Efficient Non-Parametric Surface Representations Using Active Sampling for Push Broom Laser Data Michael Smith, Ingmar Posner, Paul Newman. |
| 12:30-13:00 | Oral 8 | Sensor Placement for Improved Robotic Navigation Michael Vitus, Claire Tomlin. |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| Session 6 | Chair: Raja Chatila | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Invited talk | Robotic Solar System Exploration: Progress and Challenges Larry Matthies |
| 15:30-16:00 | Oral 9 | Task-Driven Tactile Exploration Kaijen Hsiao, Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez. |
| 16:00-16:30 | Oral 10 | On the Role of Hand Synergies in the Optimal Choice of Grasping Forces Marco Gabiccini, Antonio Bicchi. |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break | |
| Session 7 | Chair: Alin Albu-Schaeffer | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Oral 11 | Dynamic Constraint-based Optimal Shape Trajectory Planner for Shape-Accelerated Underactuated Balancing Systems Umashankar Nagarajan. |
| 17:30-18:00 | Oral 12 | Design and Optimization Strategies for Muscle-Like Direct Drive Linear Permanent Magnet Motors Bryan Ruddy, Ian Hunter. |
| 18:00-18:30 | Oral 13 | Study of group food retrieval by ants as a model for multi-robot collective transport strategies Spring Berman, Quentin Lindsey, Mahmut Sakar, Vijay Kumar, Stephen Pratt. |
| 18:30 | Adjourn | |
| 20:00 | Banquet | El Cachirulo Restaurant |
| Session 8 | Chair: Dani Kragic | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited talk | Towards Global Energy Models for Scene Understanding Philip H. S. Torr |
| 10:00-10:30 | Oral 14 | Incremental Sampling-based Optimal Motion Planning Sertac Karaman, Emilio Frazzoli. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Oral 15 | Stochastic Modeling of the Expected Time to Search for an Intermittent Signal Source Under a Limited Sensing Range Dezhen Song, Chang Young Kim, Jingang Yi. |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session 9 | Chair: Nick Roy | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Oral 16 | Closing the Learning-Planning Loop with Predictive State Representations Byron Boots, Sajid Siddiqi, Geoffrey Gordon. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Oral 17 | Belief space planning assuming maximum likelihood observations Robert Platt, Russ Tedrake, Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez. |
| 12:30-13:00 | Oral 18 | Motion planning under bounded uncertainty using ensemble control Aaron Becker, Timothy Bretl. |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| Final session | Chair: Tomas Lozano-Perez | |
| 14:30-15:10 | Early career spotlight 1 | Dynamic walking on rough terrain and flying like a bird: a
computational approach to exploiting nonlinear dynamics Russ Tedrake |
| 15:10-15:50 | Early career spotlight 2 | Apprenticeship Learning for High-Performance Robot Control Pieter Abbeel |
| 15:50-16:20 | Oral 19 | Remotely Powered Propulsion of Helical Nanobelts Gilgueng Hwang, Sinan Haliyo, Stéphane Régnier. |
| 16:20-16:50 | Oral 20 | A Molecular Algorithm for Path Self-Assembly in 3 Dimensions Rebecca Schulman, Bernard Yurke. |
| 16:50-17:20 | Awards presentation | |
| 17:20-17:50 | Wrap up, discussion | |
| 17:50 | Adjourn | |