{"406661":{"#nid":"406661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ICRA 2015 Showcases Georgia Tech\u2019s Newest Robotic and Automation Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 40 researchers and students from across Georgia Tech will attend a premier international robotics event next week in Seattle \u2013 the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.icra2015.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/a\u003E (ICRA 2015). The group will contribute 27 papers and 2 posters about advances in robotic grasping, joints and skins, manipulating vehicles underwater or on the road, visual perception, sensimotor learning, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI expect that human robot coordination will be a prominent theme this year,\u201d says Heni Ben Amor, research scientist in the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cThere have been new developments in the past year that now allow close interaction between humans and robots when previously it was not safe to stand in their way. Also, hardware has caught up with theoretical development and new advancements in grasping are a sub-area within this topic.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Cstrong\u003EHenrik Christensen\u003C\/strong\u003E, KUKA Chair and Distinguished Professor in theSchool of Interactive Computing and Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines, will co-chair a session about robotic grasping. New research from Georgia Tech is helping robots grab parts of an object that cannot be not seen (\u201cExploiting Symmetries and Extrusions for Grasping Household Objects\u201d by Ana Huam\u00e1n Quispe, Beno\u00eet Milville, Marco Guti\u00e9rrez, Can Erdogan, Henrik Christensen, Heni Ben Amor, and Mike Stilman). This improves upon previous methods that limited what a robot could do based upon what it was already programmed to recognize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn all, 14 papers from the College of Computing have been accepted and represent work by\u003Cstrong\u003E Ben Amor,\u0026nbsp;Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Aaron Bobick, Byron Boots, Luca Carlone, Siddarth Choudhary, Christensen, Frank Dellaert, Jing Dong, Erdogan, Sehoon Ha, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHuam\u00e1n Quispe, Vadim Indelman, Charles Isbell, Martin Levihn, James Rehg, Jonathan Scholz, Stilman \u003C\/strong\u003E(dec.),and\u003Cstrong\u003E Nam Vo.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERelated to grasping, Georgia Tech students will compete in the first ever \u201cAmazon Picking Challenge\u201d at ICRA 2015 to test how well Crichton the robot can pick objects off warehouse shelves. Led by PhD student \u003Cstrong\u003EEric Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E, the team has been working long hours to ensure that Crichton performs well. Amazon is interested in new forms of commercially viable automated picking so it can continue to quickly package and ship items from a network of fulfillment centers all over the globe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe conference takes place May 26-30 at The Washington State Convention and Trade Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines will host an evening reception for personnel and special guests on May 28. Faculty members from the College of Engineering also take leadership roles in chairing sessions, presenting and serving on the conference Steering Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 40 researchers and students from across Georgia Tech will attend a premier international robotics event next week in Seattle \u2013 the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)."}],"uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-05-21 14:43:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"310391":{"id":"310391","type":"image","title":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)","file":{"fid":"199847","name":"institute_for_robotics_and_intelligent_machines_irim.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/institute_for_robotics_and_intelligent_machines_irim_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/institute_for_robotics_and_intelligent_machines_irim_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":85204,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/institute_for_robotics_and_intelligent_machines_irim_0.jpg?itok=TsoCoEe5"}}},"media_ids":["310391"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"12286","name":"Aaron Bobick"},{"id":"112451","name":"byron boots"},{"id":"10664","name":"charles isbell"},{"id":"11006","name":"Frank Dellaert"},{"id":"11890","name":"henrik christensen"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"16551","name":"Mike Stilman"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETara La Bouff\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}