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 2009 will be hosted by the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, from Sunday,June 28 through Wednesday, July 1, 2009
- Workshops will run all day Sunday and Monday morning.
- The main conference track begins Monday afternoon and continues through Wednesday.
| Sunday, June 28, 2009 | ||
| all day | Workshops | |
| Monday, June 29, 2009 | ||
| – 12:00 | Workshops | |
| 1:30 – 1:40 | Welcome | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Gaurav Sukhatme | |
| 1:40 – 2:40 | Invited Talk | Visually-Mediated Behaviors of the Fruit Fly Michael Dickinson |
| 2:40 – 3:10 | Poster Spotlight I | Poster 1-9 |
| 3:10 – 3:40 | Poster Spotlight II | Poster 10-19 |
| 3:40 – 4:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Tamim Asfour | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Oral 1 | Cooperative Manipulation and Transportation with Aerial Robots Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Oral 2 | Learning of 2D Grasping Strategies from Box-Based 3D Object Approximations Sebastian Geidenstam, Kai Huebner, Daniel Banksell, Danica Kragic |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | Oral 3 | LQR-Trees: Feedback Motion Planning on Sparse Randomized Trees Russ Tedrake |
| 5:30 – 6:00 | Oral 4 | Human Motion Database with a Binary Tree and Node Transition Graphs Katsu Yamane, Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Yoshihiko Nakamura |
| 6:00 – 6:30 | Break | |
| Session 3 | POSTER SESSION | |
| 6:30 – 9:30 | Poster 1 | Explicit Parametrizations of the Configuration Spaces of Anthropomorphic Multi-Linkage Systems Li Han, Lee Rudolph |
| Poster 2 | Approximating Displacement with the Body Velocity Integral Ross Hatton, Howie Choset |
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| Poster 3 | Tactile Texture Recognition with a 3-Axial Force MEMS integrated Artificial Finger Florian De Boissieu, Christelle Godin, Bernard Guilhamat, Christine Serviere, Dominique David, Daniel Baudois |
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| Poster 4 | On the Complexity of the Set of Three-Finger Caging Grasps of Convex Polygons Mostafa Vahedi, Frank van der Stappen |
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| Poster 5 | On the Consistency of Multi-Robot Cooperative Localization Guoquan Huang, Nikolas Trawny, Anastasios Mourikis, Stergios Roumeliotis |
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| Poster 6 | Inner Sphere Trees for Proximity and Penetration Queries Rene Weller, Gabriel Zachmann |
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| Poster 7 | Using the Distribution Theory to Simultaneously Calibrate the Sensors of a Mobile Robot Agostino Martinelli |
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| Poster 8 | Planning Motion in Similar Evnironments Jyh-Ming Lien, Yanyan Lu |
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| Poster 9 | Robust Visual Homing with Landmark Angles John Lim, Nick Barnes |
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| Poster 10 | Rut Detection and Following for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Camilo Ordonez, Oscar Chuy, Emmanuel Collins |
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| Poster 11 | Unsupervised Discovery of Object Classes from Range Data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation Felix Endres, Christian Plagemann, Cyrill Stachniss , Wolfram Burgard |
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| Poster 12 | Towards Cyclic Production Systems for Modular Robotics and Rapid Manufacturing Matt Moses, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Greg CHIRIKJIAN |
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| Poster 13 | Setpoint Regulation for Stochastically Interacting Robots Nils Napp, Samuel Burden, Eric Klavins |
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| Poster 14 | Centralized Path Planning for Multiple Robots: Optimal Decoupling into Sequential Plans Jur van den Berg, Jack Snoeyink, Ming Lin, Dinesh MANOCHA |
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| Poster 15 | Accurate Rough Terrain Estimation with Space-Carving Kernels Raia Hadsell, Drew Bagnell, Martial Hebert |
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| Poster 16 | View-Based Maps Kurt Konolige, Michael Colander, James Bowman, Patrick Mihelich, JD Chen, Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit |
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| Poster 17 | Generalized-ICP Aleksandr Segal, Dirk Haehnel, Sebastian Thrun |
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| Poster 18 | 3D Laser Scan Classification Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation Kevin Lai, Dieter Fox |
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| Poster 19 | Adaptive Relative Bundle Adjustment Gabe Sibley, Christopher Mei, Ian Reid, Paul Newman |
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| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | ||
| Session 4 | Chair: John Leonard | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Invited Talk | Next Generation Ocean Sciences: The Leading Edge of an Environmental Renaissance John Delaney |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Oral 5 | Underwater Human-Robot Interaction via Biological Motion Identification Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Oral 6 | Robustness of the Unscented Kalman Filter for State and Parameter Estimation in an Elastic Transmission Edvard Naerum, H. Hawkeye King, Blake Hannaford |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 5 | Chair: Tetsunari Inamura | |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Oral 7 | POMDPs for Robotic Tasks with Mixed Observability Sylvie Ong, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Oral 8 | Policy Search via the Signed Derivative J. Zico Kolter, Andrew Ng |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Oral 9 | Non-Parametric Learning to Aid Path Planning over Slopes Sisir Karumanchi, Thomas Allen, Tim Bailey, Steve Scheding |
| 12:20 – 2:20 | Lunch + Lab Tours | |
| Session 6 | Chair: Danica Kragic | |
| 2:20 – 3:20 | Invited Talk | The Puzzle of Human Multisensory Perception: Optimal Integration for Action Marc Ernst |
| 3:20 – 3:50 | Oral 10 | Learning GP-BayesFilters via Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models Jonathan Ko, Dieter Fox |
| 3:50 – 4:20 | Oral 11 | 3D Relative Pose Estimation from Six Distances Nikolas Trawny, Xun Zhou, Stergios Roumeliotis |
| 4:20 – | Banquet Transportation via Bus and Ferry | |
| Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | ||
| Session 7 | Chair: Eric Klavins | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Invited Talk | Rules of engagement: The architecture of robust, evolvable networks John C. Doyle |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Oral 12 | An Ab-initio Tree-based Exploration to Enhance Sampling of Low-energy Protein Conformations Amarda Shehu |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Oral 13 | Cellular Muscle Actuators with Variable Resonant Frequencies Thomas Secord, Harry Asada |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 8 | Chair: Hugh Durrant-Whyte | |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Oral 14 | Positioning Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as Communication Relays for Surveillance Tasks Oleg Burdakov, Patrick Doherty, Kaj Holmberg, Jonas Kvarnström, Per-Magnus Olsson |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Oral 15 | Efficient, Guaranteed Search with Multi-Agent Teams Geoffrey Hollinger, Athanasios Kehagias, Sanjiv Singh |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Oral 16 | Time-Extended Multi-Robot Coordination for Domains with Precedence Constraints Edward Jones, Bernardine Dias, Anthony Stentz |
| 12:20 – 1:45 | Lunch | |
| Session 9 | Chair: Blake Hannaford | |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | Early Career Spotlight Talk | Haptography: Creating Authentic Haptic Feedback from Recordings of Real Interactions Katherine Kuchenbecker |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Oral 17 | Bridging the gap between passivity and transparency Michel Franken, Stefano Stramigioli, Rob Reilink, Cristian Secchi, Alessandro Macchelli |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Oral 18 | Feedback Control for Steering Needles Through 3D Deformable Tissue Using Helical Paths Kris Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Nuttapong Chentanez, Allison Okamura, Ken Goldberg |
| 3:30 – 3:50 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 10 | Chair: Jose Neira | |
| 3:50 – 4:20 | Oral 19 | Large Scale Graph-Based SLAM using Aerial Images as Prior Information Bastian Steder, Rainer Kümmerle, Christian Dornhege, Alexander Kleiner, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard |
| 4:20 – 4:50 | Oral 20 | Highly Scalable Apppearance-Only SLAM - FAB-MAP 2.0 Mark Cummins, Paul Newman |
| 4:50 – 5:00 | Award Presentation | |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | Wrap Up, Discussion | |
| 5:30 – | Adjourn | |