{"234011":{"#nid":"234011","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Robotics Seminar Series\u2013Silvio Savarese","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis event will be held in the TSRB\u0026nbsp;Banquet Hall\u0026nbsp;from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESilvio Savarese of Stanford presents \u0022Perceiving the 3D World from Images\u0022\u0026nbsp;as part of the IRIM Seminar Series.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EWhen we look at an environment such as a coffee shop, we don\u0027t just recognize the objects in isolation, but rather perceive a rich scenery of the 3D space, its objects and all the relations among them. This allows us to effortlessly navigate through the environment, or to interact and manipulate objects in the scene with amazing precision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe past several decades of computer vision research have, on the other hand, addressed the problems of 2D object recognition and 3D space reconstruction as two independent problems. Tremendous progress has been made in both areas. However, while methods for object recognition attempt to describe the scene as a list of class labels, they often make mistakes due to the lack of a coherent understanding of the 3D spatial structure. Similarly, methods for scene 3D modeling can produce accurate metric reconstructions but cannot put the reconstructed scene into a semantically useful form.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EA major line of work from my group in recent years has been to design intelligent visual models that understand the 3D world by integrating 2D and 3D cues, inspired by what humans do. In this talk I will introduce a novel paradigm whereby objects and 3D space are modeled in a joint fashion to achieve a coherent and rich interpretation of the environment. I will start by giving an overview of our research for detecting objects and determining their geometric properties such as 3D location, pose or shape. Then, I will demonstrate that these detection methods play a critical role for modeling the interplay between objects and space, which in turn, enable simultaneous semantic reasoning and 3D scene reconstruction. I will conclude this talk by demonstrating that our novel paradigm for scene understanding is potentially transformative in application areas such as autonomous or assisted navigation, robotics, automatic 3D modeling of urban environments and surveillance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003ESilvio Savarese is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and was a Beckman Institute Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005\u20132008. He joined Stanford in 2013 after being assistant and then associate professor (with tenure) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 2008 to 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESavarese\u0027s\u0026nbsp;research interests include computer vision, object recognition and scene understanding, shape representation and reconstruction, human activity recognition and visual psychophysics.\u0026nbsp;He is recipient of several awards, including the James R. Croes Medal in 2013, a TRW Automotive Endowed Research Award in 2012, an NSF Career Award in 2011 and Google Research Award in 2010. In 2002, Savarese\u0026nbsp;received the Walker von Brimer Award for outstanding research initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis event will be held in the TSRB Banquet Hall\u0026nbsp;from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStanford\u0027s Russ Tedrake presents \u0022Perceiving the 3D World from Images\u0022 as part of the IRIM Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Silvio Savarese of Stanford presents \u0022Perceiving the 3D World from Images\u0022 as part of the IRIM Seminar Series"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-09-04 14:43:49","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:24:00","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-11-15T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-11-15T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-11-15T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-11-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-11-15 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-11-15 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"250451":{"id":"250451","type":"image","title":"Silvio Savarese","body":null,"created":"1449243795","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:15","changed":"1475894929","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:49","alt":"Silvio Savarese","file":{"fid":"198087","name":"silvio-savarese.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/silvio-savarese_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/silvio-savarese_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6978120,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/silvio-savarese_0.jpg?itok=X9hjQCgC"}}},"media_ids":["250451"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"http:\/\/cvgl.stanford.edu\/silvio\/","title":"Silvio Savarese Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"72821","name":"RIM Seminar Series"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EIRIM Marketing Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \u2022 404-385-8551\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"233981":{"#nid":"233981","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Robotics Seminar-Jonathan P. How","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUnless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in room 1116 in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building from 12-1 p.m. Seminars are open to the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMIT\u0027s Jonathan P. How presents a seminar as part of the Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUnless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in room 1116 in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building from 12-1 p.m. Seminars are open to the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMIT\u0027s Jonathan P. How presents a seminar as part of the Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jonathan P. 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For linear systems (and nearly linear systems), these algorithms already exist\u2014many problems of interest for design and analysis can be solved very efficiently using convex optimization. In this talk, I\u0027ll describe a set of relatively recent advances using polynomial optimization that are enabling a similar convex-optimization-based approach to nonlinear systems. I will give an overview of the theory and algorithms, and demonstrate their application to hard control problems in robotics, including dynamic legged locomotion, humanoids and robotic birds. 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He has also spent time at Microsoft, Microsoft Research, and the Santa Fe Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETedrake\u0027s research group is interested in underactuated motor control systems in animals and machines that are capable of executing dynamically dexterous tasks and interacting with uncertain environments. The design of these control systems is intimately related to the mechanical designs of machines and tools from machine learning and optimal control can be used to exploit this coupling when classical control techniques fail. 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Though these robots are well suited for many automation tasks, the next generation of robots will be smaller, lighter weight, easier to use, and more cost-effective. This talk will explore the ways Energid Technologies is advancing control and machine-vision software to compensate for limitations in lower-cost hardware. We will discuss a new lightweight kinematically redundant robot arm being developed through Energid subsidiary Robai that takes advantage of these software advances.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETardella Bio\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003ENeil Tardella is the chief executive officer at Energid and provides\u0026nbsp;leadership and strategic\u0026nbsp;direction for the company. Tardella\u0026nbsp;has spearheaded\u0026nbsp;commercial initiatives in the energy, medical, and low-cost robotics sectors. Prior to joining Energid, he held key R\u0026amp;D and management roles at Northrop Grumman Norden Systems, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, and Technology Service Corporation. 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However, teleoperated mobile manipulators in search and rescue operations inch along at an excruciatingly slow pace, even though time is of the essence. In both cases, the human operator is in the loop, giving control input to the vehicle. In the first case, however, the driver only needs to control the direction of the vehicle through a steering wheel or joystick; in the second case, the additional degrees of freedom of the manipulator arm are added. Of course, the environments are also different: a structured simulated world as opposed to a uncertain real disaster area. For multiple reasons including communications latency, actuator limitations, and inefficient human-robot interaction strategies, even basic robot teleoperation tasks are excruciatingly slow, both in robot mobility and manipulator arm control. For robots to become more useful tools for humans in the future, the speed at which robot-assisted tasks can be completed must be increased.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I present a framework we have developed for characterizing and understanding the key factors that limit the performance of teleoperated mobile manipulators, where performance is defined as a combination of speed, accuracy and safety (lack of collisions). Our analysis framework depends on a having models of delay and performance for the different components of the system, and I describe some models that we have created based on user testing. We consider operator feedback using video and virtual reality, and compare a gamepad user input to a master-slave manipulator. Since adding semi-autonomous behaviors to a teleoperated robot can improve the performance, we describe our results in rollover prevention. 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Wireless capsule endoscopy has already been extremely helpful for the diagnosis of diseases in the small intestine. Specific wireless capsule endoscopes have been proposed for colon inspection, but have never reached the diagnostic accuracy of standard colonoscopy. In the first part of the talk, we will discuss enabling technologies that have the potential to transform colonoscopy into a painless procedure. These technologies include magnetic manipulation of capsule endoscopes, real-time pose tracking, and intermagnetic force measurement. The second part of the talk will provide an overview about the development of novel robotic solutions for single incision robotic surgery. In particular, a novel surgical robotic platform based on local magnetic actuation will be presented as a possible approach to further minimize access trauma. The final part of the talk will introduce the novel concept of intraoperative wireless tissue palpation, presenting a capsule that can be directly manipulated by the surgeon to create a stiffness distribution map in real-time. This stiffness map can then be used to guide tissue resection with the goal of minimizing the healthy tissue being removed with the tumor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EPietro Valdastri received a master\u2019s degree in electronic engineering from University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002, and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant\u2019Anna, Pisa, in 2006. After spending three years as an assistant professor of Biomedical Robotics at Scuola Superiore Sant\u2019Anna, he moved his research to Vanderbilt University in August 2011, where he is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering with a secondary appointment in the Division of Gastroenterology and also serves as director of the STORM Lab. Valdastri\u2019s research focuses on the design and creation of mechatronic and self-contained devices for use inside specific districts of the human body to detect and cure diseases in a non-invasive way. He has extensively used magnetic fields to manipulate and control wireless and soft-tethered meso-scale robots inside body cavities, such as the gastrointestinal tract and abdomen. Valdastri\u2019s research has been published in more than 55 peer-reviewed journal publications. Recently, his work received the Best Technology Award at the 19th International Congress of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery, the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2011 Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics, the 3 in 5 Competition Award at the 2012 ASME Design of Medical Devices Conference, and the OLYMPUS ISCAS Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUnless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in room 1116 in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building from 12-1 p.m. Seminars are open to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EPietri Valdastri\u0026nbsp;presents \u0022Magnetic Capsule Robots for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Abdominal Surgery\u0022\u0026nbsp;as part of the RIM Seminar Series.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pietri Valdastri of Vanderbilt presents \u0022Magnetic Capsule Robots for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Abdominal Surgery.\u0022"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-09-04 13:38:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:04:34","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-09-04T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-09-04T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-09-04T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-09-04 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-09-04 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-09-04 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"233871":{"id":"233871","type":"image","title":"Pietro Valdastri","body":null,"created":"1449243641","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:40:41","changed":"1475894908","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:28","alt":"Pietro Valdastri","file":{"fid":"197619","name":"pietro_valdastri.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pietro_valdastri_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pietro_valdastri_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91509,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pietro_valdastri_0.jpg?itok=tVUf9kLn"}}},"media_ids":["233871"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/","title":"Pietri Valdastri"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"167831","name":"surgical robots"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003ERIM Communications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}