2018 NRI PI Meeting Program Agenda
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28Location
6:00pm - 10:00pmEarly RegistrationCrystal Ballroom
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29
7:30am - 8:30amBreakfastVirginia Ballroom Foyer
7:30am - 6:00pmRegistrationCrystal Ballroom
8:30am - 9:00amWelcome and Opening Remarks 
Session Chair: Peter Kazanzides (JHU)
Virginia Ballroom
SESSION 1: MANIPULATION AND DESIGNVirginia Ballroom
9:00am - 10:00am 
8 minute talks
Sketching Geometry and Physics Informed Inference for Mobile Robot Manipulation in Cluttered ScenesJoseph LaViola, Chad Jenkins, 
Sina Masnadi
Collaborative Research: Accelerating Robotic Manipulation with Data-Enhanced Contact MechanicsMatthew Mason, Alberto Rodriguez
Vine Robots: Achieving Locomotion and Construction by GrowthAllison Okamura
A Variable Stiffness Artificial Muscle Material for Dexterous ManipulationQibing Pei, Erin Askounis
Design and Fabrication of Robot Hands for Dexterous TasksNancy Pollard
Shape Morphing Arm Robotic (SMART) Manipulators for Simultaneous Safe Human-Robot Interaction and High Performance in ManufacturingHai-Jun Su
10:00am - 11:30amBREAK and POSTER SESSION 1Commonwealth Room
11:30am - 12:30pmKeynote: Steve LaValle, University of Oulu, Finland 
The Path to (Human) Perception Engineering 
Session Chair: Greg Chirikjian (JHU)
Virginia Ballroom
12:30pm - 1:30pmLUNCHVirginia Ballroom Foyer
SESSION 2: REHABILITATION, MEDICAL, AND HUMAN AUGMENTATIONVirginia Ballroom
1:30pm - 3:00pm 
8 minute talks
Decentralized Feedback Control Design for Cooperative Robotic Walking with Application to Powered Prosthetic LegsKaveh Akbari Hamed
Extra Robotic Limbs for Body Support in Kneeling and Crouching WorksH. Harry Asada
Towards Restoring Natural Sensation of Hand Amputees via Wearable Surface Grid ElectrodesXiogang Hu, Helen Huang
A Cognitive Navigation Assistant for the BlindKris Kitani
Task-Based Assistance for Software-Enabled Biomedical DevicesTodd Murphey
Goal-Oriented, subject-Adaptive, robot-assisted Locomotor Learning (GOALL)Fabrizio Sergi, Jill Higginson
Robotics to Improve Patient Care for Highly Infectious DiseasesWilliam Smart
Assistive Robots for Blind TravelersAaron Steinfeld
Design of nanorobotics based on iron-palladium alloy nanohelicses for a new diagnosis and treatment of cancerMinoru Taya
3:00pm - 4:30pmBREAK and POSTER SESSION 2Commonwealth Room
SESSION 3: FIELD ROBOTICSVirginia Ballroom
4:30pm - 6:00pm 
8 minute talks
RAPID: Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation DeliveryStefano Carpin
Targeted Observation of Severe Local Storms Using Aerial RobotsEric Frew, Roger Laurence
Precision Pollination RobotYu Gu
Surveying and Servoing with CoTS Components as Canonical Tasks to Enable Future Farms with Commercial Off-The-Shelf RobotsVolkan Isler
A Collaborative Visual Assistant for Robot Operations in Unstructured or Confined EnvironmentsRobin Murphy, Xuesu Xiao
Liquid handling robots - a new paradigm for STEM educationIngmar Riedel-Kruse
Multi-Modal Characterization of DOE-EM FacilitiesSebastian Scherer, Kostas Alexis
Coordinated Detection and Tracking of Hazardous Agents with Aerial and Aquatic Robots to Inform Emergency RespondersPratap Tokekar
Cooperative Control of Humanoid Robots for Remote Operations in Nuclear EnvironmentsHolly Yanco
6:00pm - 8:00pmIndustry-sponsored ReceptionVirginia Ballroom Foyer
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
7:30am - 8:30amBreakfastVirginia Ballroom Foyer
7:30am - 4:30pmRegistrationCrystal Ballroom
8:30am - 9:00amAdditional Agency Perspectives 
Session Chair: David Miller (NSF)
Virginia Ballroom
SESSION 4: AUTONOMOUS AND REMOTELY-OPERATED VEHICLESVirginia Ballroom
9:00am - 10:00am 
8 minute talks
3-D Maneuverable Feedback-Controlled Micro Swimming Drone for Biomedical ApplicationsSung Cho
Enabling UAS Fire Ignitions in Complex Firefighting ContextsSebastian Elbaum, Justin Bradley
Operating in the abyss: Bringing together humans and bio-inpsired autonomous vehicles for maritime applicationsKamran Mohseni
Scalable Robot Autonomy through Remote Operator Assistance and Lifelong LearningScott Niekum, Elaine Short, Harish Ravichandar
Enhancing Mapping Capabilities of Underwater Caves using Robotic Assistive TechnologyIoannis Rekleitis
Receding Horizon Integrity-A New Navigation Safety Methodology for Co-Robotic Passenger VehiclesMatthew Spenko
10:00am - 11:30amBREAK and POSTER SESSION 3Commonwealth Room
11:30am - 12:30pmKeynote: John Leonard (MIT) 
Challenges and Opportunities In Autonomy: Lessons From Self Driving Cars 
Session Chair: Peter Kazanzides (JHU)
Virginia Ballroom
12:30pm - 1:30pmLUNCHVirginia Ballroom Foyer
SESSION 5: SENSING, PERCEPTION, AND LEARNINGVirginia Ballroom
1:30pm - 3:00pm 
8 minute talks
A Model based Approach to Distributed Adaptive Sampling of Spatio-Temporally Varying FieldsSuman Chakravorty
At the Water's Edge - Installation and Optimization of Robotic Sensing SystemsCarrick Detweiler, Justin Bradley
Experiential Learning for Robots: From Physics to Actions to TasksGregory Hager
Software Framework for Research in Semi-Autonomous TeleoperationPeter Kazanzides
Learning deep sensorimotor policies for shared autonomySergey Levine, Siddharth Reddy
Robots that Learn to Communicate through Natural Human DialogRaymond Mooney, Harel Yedidsion
A Framework for Hierarchical, Probabilistic Planning and LearningStefanie Tellex, Cynthia Matuszek
Real-time Semantic Computer Vision for Co-RoboticsNuno Vasconcelos, Pei Wang
Learning Adaptive Representations for Robust Mobile Robot Navigation from Multi-Modal InteractionsMatthew Walter
3:00pm - 4:30pmBREAK and POSTER SESSION 4Commonwealth Room
4:30pmClosing Remarks 
Session Chair: Peter Kazanzides (JHU)
Virginia Ballroom
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