Program Details
Room: Atalaya, The Sheraton Buenos Aires
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
Monday, Nov 5
| Session | Time | Paper Title | Authors |
| 8:00 | Registration desk open on the 24th floor (in front of the Atalaya Room) | ||
| 8:45 | Welcome and Opening | ||
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Medical Robotics (Yoshi Nakamura) |
9:00 | Following Surgical Trajectories with Concentric Tube Robots via Nearest-Neighbor Graphs | Sherdil Niyaz, Alan Kuntz, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz and Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| 9:15 | An Experimental Validation of Behavior-based Motions for Robotic Coronary Guidewire Crossing Techniques | Young-Ho Kim, Ankur Kapoor, Rodolfo Finocchi and Erin Girard | |
| 9:30 | Design and Analysis of a Bidirectional Notch Joint for a Robotic Pediatric Neuroendoscope | Yash Chitalia, Xuefeng Wang, Vinh Nguyen, Shreyes Melkote, Joshua Chern and Jaydev Desai | |
| 9:45 | In-Bore Experimental Validation of Active Compensation and Membrane Puncture Detection for Targeted MRI-Guided Robotic Prostate Biopsy | Marek Wartenberg, Katie Gandomi, Paulo Carvalho, Joseph Schornak, Nirav Patel, Iulian Iordachita, Clare Tempany, Nobuhiko Hata, Junichi Tokuda and Gregory Fischer | |
| 10:00 | Understanding and Transfer of Human Skills in Robotics Using Deep Learning and Musculoskeletal Modeling | Dipti Chaudhari, Kunj Bhagat and Emel Demircan | |
| 10:15 | Discussion M1 | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee Break with Videos/Demos | ||
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UAV I (Nick Roy) |
11:00 | A Collaborative Aerial-ground Robotic System for Fast Exploration | Luqi Wang, Daqian Cheng, Fei Gao, Fengyu Cai, Jixin Guo, Mengxiang Lin and Shaojie Shen |
| 11:15 | Rover Localization in Mars Helicopter Aerial Maps: Experimental Results in Mars-analogue Environments | Kamak Ebadi and Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi | |
| 11:30 | Towards Efficient Full Body Omnidirectionality with Overactuated MAVs | Karen Bodie, Zachary Taylor, Mina Kamel and Roland Siegwart | |
| 11:45 | Vision Based Robust Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on a Moving Target | Alvika Gautam, Sujit P.B and Srikanth Saripalli | |
| 12:00 | UAV-based Automated Labeling of Training Data for Online Water and Land Differentiation | Curtis Klein, Trevor Speckman, Thomas Medeiros, Derek Eells and Elizabeth Basha | |
| 12:15 | Discussion M2 | ||
| 12:30 | Doctoral Consortium Lunch | ||
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UAV II (Shreyansh Daftry) |
14:00 | Autonomous drone cinematographer: Using artistic principles to create smooth, safe, occlusion-free trajectories for aerial filming | Rogerio Bonatti, Yanfu Zhang, Sanjiban Choudhury, Wenshan Wang and Sebastian Scherer |
| 14:15 | The Blackbird Dataset: A large-scale dataset for UAV perception in aggressive flight | Amado Antonini, Winter Guerra, Varun Murali, Thomas Sayre-Mccord and Sertac Karaman | |
| 14:30 | Search and Rescue under the Forest Canopy using Multiple UAS | Yulun Tian, Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, Loc Tran, Danette Allen, Nicholas Roy and Jonathan How | |
| 14:45 | Predicting Digging Success for Unmanned Aircraft System Sensor Emplacement | Adam Plowcha, Yue Sun, Carrick Detweiler and Justin Bradley | |
| 15:00 | Precision UAV Landing in Unstructured Environments | Kevin Pluckter and Sebastian Scherer | |
| 15:15 | Discussion M3 | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee Break with Videos/Demos | ||
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MAV (Greg Dudek) |
16:15 | Nuclear Environments Inspection with Micro Aerial Vehicles: Algorithms and Experiments | Dinesh Thakur, Giuseppe Loianno, Wenxin Liu and Vijay Kumar |
| 16:30 | View Planning and Navigation Algorithms for Autonomous Bridge Inspection with UAVs | Prajwal Shanthakumar, Kevin Yu, Mandeep Singh, Jonah Orevillo, Eric Bianchi, Matthew Hebdon and Pratap Tokekar | |
| 16:45 | Policy Search on Aggregated State Space for Active Sampling | Sandeep Manjanna, Herke van Hoof and Gregory Dudek | |
| 17:00 | 4-DOF Magnetic Field Based Localization for UAV Navigation | Harald Gietler, Böhm Christoph, Tobias Mitterer, Lisa-Marie Faller, Stephan Weiss and Hubert Zangl | |
| 17:15 | Robust Vision-based Autonomous Navigation, Mapping and Landing for MAVs at Night | Shreyansh Daftry, Manash Das, Jeff Delaune, Cristina Sorice, Robert Hewitt, Shreetej Reddy, Daniel Lytle, Elvin Gu and Larry Matthies | |
| 17:30 | Discussion M4 | ||
| 17:45 | End of Sessions | ||
| 18:30 -- 19:30 |
Cocktail and Tango Lesson | ||
| 19:30 -- 21:30 |
Symposium Banquet (Restaurant: Milion) | ||
| 22:00 -- 23:00 |
Informal Session (Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel) | ||
Day 2: Tuesday, Nov 6
| Session | Time | Paper Title | Authors |
| 8:45 |
Keynote |
Yoshihiko Nakamura | |
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Learning I (Kostas Bekris) |
9:15 | Learning Accurate Objectness Instance Segmentation From Photo-Realistic Rendering For Robotic Manipulation | Siyi Li, Jiaji Zhou, Zhenzhong Jia, Dit-Yan Yeung and Matthew T. Mason |
| 9:30 | Adapting control policies from simulation to reality using a pairwise loss | Ulrich Viereck, Xingchao Peng, Kate Saenko and Robert Platt | |
| 9:45 | Scaling simulation-to-real transfer by learning composable robot skills | Ryan Julian, Eric Heiden, Zhanpeng He, Hejia Zhang, Stefan Schaal, Joseph Lim, Gaurav Sukhatme and Karol Hausman | |
| 10:00 | Sim-to-real Transferable Object Classification through Touch-based Continuum Manipulation | Huitan Mao, Junius Santoso, Cagdas Onal and Jing Xiao | |
| 10:15 | Discussion T1 | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee Break with Videos/Demos | ||
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Navigation (Thierry Peynot) |
11:00 | Characterization and Traversal of Pliable Vegetation for Robot Navigation | Camilo Ordonez, Ryan Alicea, Brandon Rothrock, Kyle Ladyko, Jeremy Nash, Rohan Thakker, Shreyansh Daftry, Mario Harper, Emmanuel Collins and Larry Matthies |
| 11:15 | Safe terrain probing method for multi-legged robots operating on brittle surfaces | Eranda Tennakoon, Navinda Kottege, Thierry Peynot and Jonathan Roberts | |
| 11:30 | On-line coordination tasks for multi-robot systems using adaptive informative sampling | Carlos Nieto, John G. Rogers Iii, Nicholas Fung, Stephanie Kenma, Henrik Christensen and Gaurav Sukhatme | |
| 11:45 | External Force Field Modeling for Autonomous Surface Vehicles | Jason Moulton, Alberto Quattrini Li and Ioannis Rekleitis | |
| 12:00 | Context-Aware Intention and Trajectory Prediction for Urban Driving Environment | Malika Meghjani, You Hong Eng, Shashwat Verma, Daniela Rus, Marcelo H. Ang Jr. and Qi Heng Ho | |
| 12:15 | Discussion T2 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
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Learning II (Robert Platt) |
14:00 | Interactive Learning with Corrective Feedback for Policies based on Deep Neural Networks | Rodrigo Pérez Dattari, Carlos Celemin, Javier Ruiz Del Solar and Jens Kober |
| 14:15 | Force-Torque Sensor Disturbance Observer using Deep Learning | Kamal Mohy El Dine, José Sánchez, Juan-Antonio Corrales-Ramon, Youcef Mezouar and Jean-Christophe Fauroux | |
| 14:30 | Learning to Grasp Without Seeing | Adithyavairavan Murali, Yin Li, Dhiraj Gandhi and Abhinav Gupta | |
| 14:45 | Semi-parametric Approaches to Learning in Model-Based Hierarchical Control of Complex Systems | Munzir Zafar, Areeb Mehmood, Muhammad Murtaza, Shimin Zhang, Evangelos Theodorou, Seth Hutchinson and Byron Boots | |
| 15:00 | Learning to Use a Ratchet by Modeling Spatial Relations in Demonstrations | Li Yang Ku, Scott Jordan, Julia Badger, Erik Learned-Miller and Rod Grupen | |
| 15:15 | Any-axis Tensegrity Rolling via Symmetry-Reduced Reinforcement Learning | David Surovik, Jonathan Bruce, Kun Wang, Massimo Vespignani and Kostas Bekris | |
| 15:30 | Discussion T3 | ||
| 15:45 | Coffee Break with Videos/Demos | ||
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Contacts and Manipulation (Jaeheung Park) |
16:15 | Experimental Studies of Contact Space Model for Multi-Surface Collisions in Articulated Rigid-Body Systems | Shameek Ganguly and Oussama Khatib |
| 16:30 | Path Planning for Within-Hand Manipulation Over Learned Representations of Safe States | Berk Calli, Andrew Kimmel, Kaiyu Hang, Kostas Bekris and Aaron Dollar | |
| 16:45 | Real-Time Human-Robot Communication for Manipulation Tasks in Partially Observed Environments | Jacob Arkin, Rohan Paul, Subhro Roy, Daehyung Park, Nicholas Roy and Thomas Howard | |
| 17:00 | Motion Planning for Manipulators in Unknown Environments with Contact Sensing Uncertainty | Brad Saund and Dmitry Berenson | |
| 17:15 | Contact-Consistent Disturbance Observer for Floating-Base Robots | Hosang Lee, Yisoo Lee and Jaeheung Park | |
| 17:30 | Actuator Transparency and the Energetic Cost of Proprioception | Gavin Kenneally, Wei-Hsi Chen and Daniel Koditschek | |
| 17:45 | Discussion T4 | ||
| 18:00 | End of Sessions | ||
| 19:00 -- 23:30 |
Dinner and Tango show (Senor Tango) | ||
Day 3: Wednesday, Nov 7
| Session | Time | Paper Title | Authors |
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UAV III (Jonathan Kelly) |
8:45 | Hybrid Model Predictive Control for Crosswind Stabilization of Hybrid Airships | Julian F. M. Förster, Mohamed K. Helwa, Xintong Du and Angela P. Schoellig |
| 9:00 | In-air Exchange of Small Payloads between Multirotor Aerial Systems | Ajay Shankar, Sebastian Elbaum and Carrick Detweiler | |
| 9:15 | Fast and Agile Vision-Based Flight with Teleoperation and Collision Avoidance on a Multirotor | Alexander Spitzer, Xuning Yang, John Yao, Aditya Dhawale, Kshitij Goel, Mosam Dabhi, Matt Collins, Curtis Boirum and Nathan Michael | |
| 9:30 | Path Planning Based on Differential Kinematics for Passing through Small Opening by Transformable Multilinked Aerial Robot | Moju Zhao, Tomoki Anzai, Fan Shi, Kei Okada and Masayuki Inaba | |
| 9:45 | Mathematical Models for Physical Interactions of Robots with their Environment | Adam Stager and Herbert Tanner | |
| 10:00 | Discussion W1 | ||
| 10:15 | Coffee Break with Videos/Demos | ||
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Human Robot Interaction (Berk Calli) |
10:45 | On Infusing Reachability-Based Safety Assurance within Probabilistic Planning Frameworks for Human-Robot Vehicle Interactions | Karen Leung, Edward Schmerling, Mo Chen and Marco Pavone |
| 11:00 | Experimental validation of an energy constraint for a safer collaboration with robots | Lucas Joseph, Vincent Padois and Guillaume Morel | |
| 11:15 | Production of Legible Robot Reaching Motion for Human-Robot Interaction | Sara Sheikholeslami, Gilwoo Lee, Siddhartha Srinivasa and Elizabeth Croft | |
| 11:30 | Generating Expressive Light Signals for Appearance-Constrained Robots | Elizabeth Cha, Naomi T Fitter, Yunkyung Kim, Terrence Fong and Maja Matarić | |
| 11:45 | Attentiveness of Children with Diverse Needs to a Socially Assistive Robot in the Home | Caitlyn Clabaugh, Shomik Jain, Balasubramanian Thiagarajan, Zhonghao Shi, Leena Mathur, Gisele Ragusa and Maja Matarić | |
| 12:00 | Experimental Validation of Resolved Viscoelasticity Control on Hydrostatically Driven Humanoid Hydra | Ko Yamamoto, Tianyi Ko, Kazuya Murotani and Yoshihiko Nakamura | |
| 12:15 | Discussion W2 | ||
| 12:30 -- 15:30 |
Rodizio Lunch and La Boca Excursion | ||
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Design and Prototype (Torsten Kroeger) |
16:30 | Towards Autonomous Printable Robotics: Design and Prototyping of the Mechanical Logic | Wenzhong Yan, Angela Gao, Yunchen Yu and Ankur Mehta |
| 16:45 | Model Refinement for Terrain Responsive Planning on a Dynamic Running Quadruped | Mario Harper, Justin Larson, Camilo Ordonez, Gordon Erlebacher, Emmanuel Collins, Jonathan Clark and David Balbuena | |
| 17:00 | RADLER - A RADial LasER scanning device | Dorit Borrmann, Sven Jörissen and Andreas Nüchter | |
| 17:15 | Design of Damping Matrices for Cartesian Impedance Control of Robotic Manipulators | Carlos Saldarriaga, Nilanjan Chakraborty and Imin Kao | |
| 17:30 | 6DoF Pose Estimation for Industrial Manipulation based on Synthetic Data | Manuel Brucker, Maximilian Durner, Zoltán-Csaba Márton, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Martin Sundermeyer and Rudolph Triebel | |
| 17:45 | Discussion W3 | ||
| 18:00 | End of Sessions | ||
| Dinner on your own | |||
Day 4: Thursday, Nov 8
| Session | Time | Paper Title | Authors |
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Mapping and Pose Estimation (Seth Hutchinson) |
9:00 | Navigation in the Service of Enhanced Pose Estimation | Travis Manderson, Ran Cheng, Dave Meger and Gregory Dudek |
| 9:15 | A Unified 3D Mapping Framework using a 3D or 2D LiDAR | Weikun Zhen and Sebastian Scherer | |
| 9:30 | Efficient Alignment of Visual-Inertial Maps | Kourosh Sartipi and Stergios Roumeliotis | |
| 9:45 | Heterogeneous Sensor Fusion via Confidence-rich 3D Grid Mapping: Application to Physical Robots | Eric Heiden, Daniel Pastor, Pradyumna Vyshnav and Aliakbar Aghamohammadi | |
| 10:00 | FastCal: Robust Online Self-Calibration for Robotic Systems | Fernando Nobre and Christoffer Heckman | |
| 10:15 | Discussion Th1 | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee Break with Videos/Demos (last minute break session) | ||
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Estimation and Calibration (Ioannis Pekleitis) |
11:00 | Consistent Multi-Robot Object Matching via QuickMatch | Zachary Serlin, Brandon Sookraj, Calin Belta and Roberto Tron |
| 11:15 | Real-time unlabeled marker pose estimation via constrained extended Kalman filter | Vladimir Joukov, Jonathan Lin, Kevin Westermann and Dana Kulić | |
| 11:30 | PoseFusion: RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Human Environments | Tianwei Zhang and Yoshihiko Nakamura | |
| 11:45 | Unified Spatiotemporal Calibration of Monocular Cameras and Planar Lidars | Jordan Marr and Jonathan Kelly | |
| 12:00 | Simultaneous Calibration and Mapping | Christian Nissler, Maximilian Durner, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Rudolph Triebel | |
| 12:15 | Discussion Th2 | ||
| 12:30 | Farewell Luncheon (buffet) | ||
| Industrial Forum (website) | 14:00 | Opening | |
| 14:05 | Welcome Speech | Sebastián Guerriere, Subsecretario de Políticas en Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva de la Nación | |
| 14:20 | Andrés Rodriguez, Founder of Altos Estudios, Argentina | ||
| 14:35 | Dra. Sol Pedre, Director of the robotic group at CNEA (Argentinian Nuclear Energy Commission) Group that has been working on the development of robots for the nuclear industry, Argentina | ||
| 14:50 | Mateo Salvatto, Young Robotics Champion and Creator of ¡Háblalo! | ||
| 15:05 | Panel Discussion: Developments and Future Impact of Robotics and AI in Argentina and Worldwide | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee Break (with Videos/Demos) | ||
| 15:50 | Oscar Navarro, Managing Director, KUKA Latin America | ||
| 16:05 | Alejandro Repetto and Enrique Cortes Funes, INIPOP, Argentina | ||
| 16:20 | Torsten Kroeger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | ||
| 16:35 | Panel Discussion: Future Applications and Products that Originate from Robotics and AI Research | ||
| 17:00 | Closing remarks and end | ||