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MEAM Seminar Series Summer 2013

Seminars are held on Tuesday mornings, with coffee at 10:30 am outside Towne Room 337 and the seminar beginning at 10:45 am in Towne Room 337(unless otherwise noted).

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Friday, May 24, 11:00 am, Towne room 337

Steven Gray, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr. Vijay Kumar
"Motion primitives and planning for robots with closed chain systems and changing topologies"

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When operating in human environments, a robot should use predictable motions that allow humans to trust and anticipate its behavior. Heuristic search-based planning offers predictable motions and guarantees on completeness and sub-optimality of solutions. While motion primitive-based (lattice-based) graphs have been used extensively in navigation, application to high-dimensional state-spaces has, until recently, been thought impractical. In this talk, we will show how these graphs can be applied to mobile manipulation with an illustrative example: planning for non-spring and spring-loaded doors. We also discuss our efforts on the DARPA Robotics Challenge Track B team.

June 18

Drew Cheney, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Lukes
"Talk Title TBA"

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Content TBD

August 6

David Argudo, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr. Prashant Purohit
"Talk Title TBA"

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Content TBD

August 13

Jungwon Seo, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr.Vijay Kumar
"Talk Title TBA"

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Content TBD

August 20

Morteza Hakimi Siboni, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr. Pedro Ponte
"Talk Title TBA"

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Content TBD

August 27

Reza Avazmohammadi, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr. Pedro Ponte
"Talk Title TBA"

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Content TBD