{"360871":{"#nid":"360871","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Robotics Seminar\u2013Dmitry Berenson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWorcester Polytechnic Institute\u2019s Dmitry Berenson\u0026nbsp;presents\u0026nbsp;\u201cTransformations and Frontiers in Robot Motion and Manipulation\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the\u0026nbsp;TSRB Banquet Hall from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ERobotics is undergoing three transformations, which are changing our research focus and opening doors to new applications. The need for robotic manipulation in unstructured environments, human-robot collaborative systems, and handling soft materials is transforming the fundamental assumptions underlying our methods for manipulation planning and creating new opportunities for applications in service robotics, health care, and manufacturing. I will present our contributions to these transformations, which include new algorithms that plan motion with multiple simultaneous constraints, manage sensor uncertainty in the planning process, model human motion in collaborative settings, and control manipulation of soft objects. I will discuss the theory behind these approaches and show practical applications on real-world robots. I will end by identifying three frontiers that are emerging as a result of these transformations as well as prospects for their exploration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EDmitry Berenson\u0026nbsp;received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2005, where he started his robotics work in\u0026nbsp;Hod Lipson\u0027s\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/creativemachines.cornell.edu\/\u0022 data-cke-saved-href=\u0022http:\/\/creativemachines.cornell.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Elab. He went on to graduate from the Ph.D. program at the\u0026nbsp;Robotics Institute\u0026nbsp;at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2011, where his advisors were\u0026nbsp;Siddhartha Srinivasa\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;James Kuffner. While at CMU, Berenson\u0026nbsp;worked in the\u0026nbsp;Personal Robotics Lab\u0026nbsp;and completed internships at the\u0026nbsp;Digital Human Research Center\u0026nbsp;in Japan,\u0026nbsp;Intel Labs\u0026nbsp;in Pittsburgh, and\u0026nbsp;LAAS-CNRS\u0026nbsp;in France.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn 2012, Berenson\u0026nbsp;completed a post-doc at UC Berkeley, working with\u0026nbsp;Ken Goldberg\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Pieter Abbeel. In August 2012, he joined the\u0026nbsp;WPI\u0026nbsp;faculty\u0026nbsp;as an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;Robotics Engineering Program\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Computer Science Department\u0026nbsp;where he\u0026nbsp;founded the\u0026nbsp;Autonomous Robotic Collaboration (ARC) Lab, which focuses on motion planning, manipulation, and human-robot collaboration. His research focuses on creating algorithms that allow robots to interact with the world and collaborate efficiently with people. These general-purpose motion planning and manipulation algorithms can be applied to robots that work in homes, factories, and operating rooms.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWorcester Polytechnic Institute\u2019s Dmitry Berenson\u0026nbsp;presents\u0026nbsp;\u201cTransformations and Frontiers in Robot Motion and Manipulation\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the\u0026nbsp;TSRB Banquet Hall from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dmitry Berenson presents \u201cTransformations and Frontiers in Robot Motion and Manipulation\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2015-01-05 17:56:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:48","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-01-14T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-01-14T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-01-14T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-01-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-01-14 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-01-14 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"360881":{"id":"360881","type":"image","title":"Dmitry Berenson","body":null,"created":"1449245782","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:22","changed":"1475895096","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:36","alt":"Dmitry Berenson","file":{"fid":"201554","name":"dmitry-berenson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dmitry-berenson_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dmitry-berenson_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":633163,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dmitry-berenson_0.jpg?itok=06XlMPBc"}}},"media_ids":["360881"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/users.wpi.edu\/~dberenson\/","title":"Dmitry Berenson"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"167194","name":"seminar series"}],"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 Mgr.\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":""}}}