{"445171":{"#nid":"445171","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Robotics Seminar\u2013Nora Ayanian","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of Southern California\u0027s Nora Ayanian presents \u201cMultirobot Coordination: From High-level Specification to Correct Execution\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series. The event will be held in the 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\u003EUsing a group of robots in place of a single complex robot to accomplish a task has many benefits, including simplified system repair, less down\u0026nbsp;time, and lower cost. Combining heterogeneous groups of these multi-robot systems allows addressing multiple subtasks in parallel, reducing the\u0026nbsp;time it takes to address many problems, such as\u0026nbsp;search and rescue, reconnaissance, and mine detection. These missions demand different roles\u0026nbsp;for robots, necessitating a strategy for coordinated autonomy while respecting any constraints the environment may impose. Synthesis of control\u0026nbsp;policies for heterogeneous multirobot systems is particularly challenging because of inter-robot constraints such as communication maintenance\u0026nbsp;and collision avoidance, the need to coordinate robots within groups, and the dynamics of individual robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI will present approaches to synthesizing feedback policies for navigating groups of robots in constrained environments. These approaches automatically and concurrently solve both the path planning and\u0026nbsp;control synthesis problems, and are specified at a high level, for example, using an iPad interface to navigate a complex environment with a team of UAVs. I will also present some preliminary work on novel approaches to developing controllers for many types of multirobot tasks, by using crowdsourced multi-player game data.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENora Ayanian is a Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Southern California. Her research focuses on creating end-to-end solutions for coordinating teams of robots that start from truly high-level specifications and deliver code for individual robots in the team, such as using simple multitouch inputs to control a team of UAVs. Ayanian brings a unique approach to multirobot systems, creating unified solutions that address task assignment, path planning, and control that are broadly applicable across all aspects of multirobot systems and mobile sensor networks. Her solutions provide guarantees of convergence and safety on real robotic systems. She won the Best Student Paper Award at ICRA 2008 for her work on constrained multirobot control. In 2013 she was named one of IEEE Intelligent Systems \u201cAI\u0027s 10 to watch\u201d and in 2014 was named to NerdScholar\u2019s \u201c40 Under 40: Professors who Inspire.\u201d In 2015, she was honored to be selected for the inaugural Mic 50, Mic.com\u2019s list of 50 influential young people. Ayanian is a co-founder and current co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems, and co-produced the first ICRA trailer in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of Southern California\u0027s Nora Ayanian presents \u201cMultirobot Coordination: From High-level Specification to Correct Execution\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series. 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These nonconforming robots correspond to faults in the multi-robot system, and our control policies are thus fault-tolerant policies. We consider the case in which each robot is an autonomous decision maker that is anonymous (i.e., robots are indistinguishable to one another), memoryless (i.e., each robot makes decisions based upon only its current information), and dimensionless (i.e., collision checking is not considered). Each robot has a limited sensing range, and is able to directly estimate the state of only those robots within that sensing range, which induces a network topology for the multi-robot system. We assume that it is not possible for the fault-free robots to identify the faulty robots (e.g., due to the anonymous property of the robots). Our approach provides an efficient computational framework and analysis of algorithms that achieve approximate convergence in the face of faulty robots under a few assumptions on the network topology and sensing sensing abilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeth Hutchinson received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1988. In 1990, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He served as associate department head of ECE from 2001 to 2007. Hutchinson currently serves on the editorial boards of the \u003Cem\u003EInternational Journal of Robotics\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003EResearch\u003C\/em\u003E and the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Intelligent Service Robotics\u003C\/em\u003E, and chairs the steering committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society\u2019s Conference Editorial Board (2006-2008), and Editor-in-Chief of the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Transaction on Robotics\u003C\/em\u003E (2008-2013). He has published more than 200 papers on the topics of robotics and computer vision, and is coauthor of the books \u003Cem\u003EPrinciples of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Implementations\u003C\/em\u003E, published by MIT Press, and \u003Cem\u003ERobot Modeling and\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Control\u003C\/em\u003E, published by Wiley. 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Examples are processes like water-jet cutting, composite fiber placement, and robotic sealing. For high dynamic trajectories, a redundant manipulator consisting of a low bandwidth macro-manipulator and high bandwidth mini-manipulator can preserve the high dynamic trajectory requirements while maintaining the large work envelope of the macro manipulator. My talk presents an efficient global solution to the redundancy resolution problem, with the goal of minimizing the integral jerk of the actuators. Minimum jerk trajectories are advantageous for minimizing structural oscillations and improving the smoothness of control. The method presented achieves up to 75% reduction in integral jerk and 98% reduction in peak jerk vs. a greedy approach, while being embarrassingly parallel making it suitable for a high performance computing implementation. Additionally, a simple real-time controller is presented that maintains the planned low jerk trajectories given task-space feedback on the trajectory following error.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhil Freeman is a technical fellow with Boeing Research and Technology. He works in the newly opened BR\u0026amp;T Technology Center in Charleston, South Carolina as part of the Advanced Production Systems group. His work is focused on developing advanced industrial robotics and automation for aerospace manufacturing. 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As with most technologies, robots that behave in unexpected and inappropriate ways face misuse, abandonment, and sabotage. Complicating this challenge are human misperceptions of robot capability, intelligence, and performance. This talk will summarize work from several projects focused on this human-robot interaction challenge. Findings and examples will be shown from work on human trust in robots, deceptive robot behavior, robot motion, robot characteristics, and interaction with humans who are blind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Aaron Steinfeld is an associate research professor in the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S.E., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and completed a postdoctoral appointment at U.C. Berkeley. He is the co-director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation (RERC-APT), director of the DRRP on Inclusive Cloud and Web Computing, and the area lead for transportation related projects in the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT). Steinfeld\u2019s research focuses on operator assistance under constraints; i.e., how to enable timely and appropriate interaction when technology use is restricted through design, tasks, the environment, time pressures, and\/or user abilities. 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This is especially true in applications such as robotics, in which even a small error rate in the perception system can have catastrophic consequences for the overall system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk will review a few ideas that could be used to start formalizing the issues revolving around integrating vision systems. They include a systematic approach to the problem of self-assessment of vision algorithms and predicting quality metrics on the inputs to the vision algorithms, ideas on how to manage multiple hypotheses generated from a vision algorithm rather than relying on a single \u201chard\u201d decision, and methods for using external (non-visual) domain- and task-dependent information. These ideas will be illustrated with examples of recent vision for scene understanding, depth estimation, and object recognition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMartial\u0026nbsp;Hebert\u2019s\u0026nbsp;work is in the areas of computer vision and perception for autonomous systems.\u0026nbsp;His interests are in the interpretation of perception data (both 2-D and 3-D), including building models of environments. Current research directions include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEfficient techniques for object\/category recognition\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUse of contextual information, in particular 3-D geometry from images, for scene analysis\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESymbolic knowledge for scene interpretation and reconstruction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMotion analysis for feature extraction and event detection in video clips\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEfficient tools for the analysis of dynamic 3-D point clouds (\u00223-D signal processing\u0022)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPerception for autonomous systems\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDetection, tracking, and prediction in dynamic environments\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarnegie Mellon\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Martial Hebert, the director of the\u0026nbsp;Robotics Institute\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Epresents \u201cChallenges in Semantic Perception for Autonomous Systems\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":"Martial Hebert presents \u201cChallenges in Semantic Perception for Autonomous Systems\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2015-09-04 16:13:02","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:23","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-07T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-07T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-07T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-07 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-07 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-07 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"445091":{"id":"445091","type":"image","title":"Martial Hebert","body":null,"created":"1449256205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:05","changed":"1475895184","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:04","alt":"Martial Hebert","file":{"fid":"203161","name":"hebert_martial.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hebert_martial_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hebert_martial_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19606,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hebert_martial_0.jpg?itok=N275M1jV"}}},"media_ids":["445091"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~hebert\/","title":"Martial Hebert"},{"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":""}}}