Workshops

Full-day workshops, Sunday, June 28, 2009

These workshops will be held in the Electrical Engineering Building, University of Washington campus, Seattle, Washington.

General Sunday Workshop Schedule:

Please refer to the page of each workshop as the schedule below is not followed by all workshops.

8:00 am - 9:00 am	Coffee and registration
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Session 1
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Session 2
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch on your own
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Session 3
3:30 pm-4:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Session 4
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

1. Bridging the gap between high-level discrete representations and low-level continuous behaviors

   Organizers:
   Dana Kulic', Department of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo
   Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics
   Pieter Abbeel, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
   

2. Good Experimental Methodology in Robotics

   Organizers:
   John Hallam, University of Southern Denmark
   Angel P. del Pobil, Robotic Intelligence Laboratory, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
   Fabio Bonsignorio, Heron Robots, Italy

3. Understanding the human hand for advancing robotic manipulation

   Organizers:
   Ravi Balasubramanian, University of Washington
   Yoky Matsuoka, University of Washington
   

4. Regression in Robotics—Approaches, and Applications

   Organizers:
   Christian Plagemann, Stanford University
   Jo-Anne Ting, University of Southern California
   Sethu Vijayakumar, University of Edinburgh
   

5. Algorithmic Automation

   Organizers:
   Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
   Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
   Todd Murphey, Northwestern University
   Frank van der Stappen, Utrecht University
   

6. Integrating Mobility and Manipulation

   Organizers:
   Brian Gerkey, Willow Garage
   Kurt Konolige, Willow Garage
   Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brown University
   Robert Platt, NASA JSC
   Neo Ee Sian, AIST
   

Industry-Sponsored Workshop, Sunday, June 28, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

• Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

  Organizers:
  Trevor Taylor, Microsoft
  Stewart Tansley, Microsoft

Half-day workshops, Monday, June 29, 2009

These workshops will be held in the Husky Union Building, University of Washington campus, Seattle, Washington.

General Monday Workshop Schedule

Please refer to the page of each workshop as the schedule below is not followed by all workshops.

8:00 am -8:30 am	Coffee and registration
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Workshops
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30am - noon	Workshops

1. Creative Manipulation: Examples using the WAM

   Organizers:
   William T. Townsend, Barrett Technology
   Yoky Matsuoka, University of Washington
   

2. Aquatic Robots and Ocean Sampling

   Organizers:
   Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California
   Kanna Rajan, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
   

3. Autonomous Flying vehicles: Fundamentals and Applications

   Organizers:
   Srikanth Saripalli, Arizona State University
   Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley
   

4. Protein Structure, Kinematics, and Motion Planning

   Organizers:
   Lydia Tapia, Texas A&M
   Nancy Amato, Texas A&M
   Mark Moll, Rice University