{"483281":{"#nid":"483281","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Robotics Seminar\u2013Nikos Papanikolopoulos","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of Minnesota\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Nikos Papanikolopoulos presents \u201cVision-Based Monitoring of Behavioral Disorders\u201d\u0026nbsp;as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;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\u003EThis work involves algorithms to assist with the early diagnosis of children who are at risk of developing behavioral disorders. Previous research has indicated that two critical areas of behavioral investigation for use in identifying at-risk children have been abnormalities in motor activities and emotional range displays, especially of the face. Motor abnormalities are based on the observation that motor control involves the circuits of the brain associated with dopamine; these are also implicated in behavioral disorders. Many different disorders share the observation of disruption in the emotional range regulation, so facial expressions are included in the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo date, assessments of motor and emotional range have been done by the experts who view and rate videos of an individual. However, these expert, subjective ratings limit the analysis of behavioral conditions to only a narrow range of behaviors, work only for small populations of individual subjects, and are both costly and dependent on the observer\u0027s particular expertise. In order to enable wider population screening, automation is required. Innovative ways of capturing and quantifying the expertise of experts are accompanied by metrics for assessing the evolution of the behavior. In addition, new computational tools support evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos, an IEEE Fellow, received a Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, in Greece, in 1987, a M.S.E.E. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1988, and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1992. Currently, Papanikolopoulos is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota and director of the Center for Distributed Robotics and SECTTRA. His research interests include computer vision, sensors for transportation applications, robotics, and control. 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Haptic simulation of manipulation is highly desirable for virtual training, virtual prototyping, and human-robot interaction for telerobotic manipulation. \u0026nbsp;In this talk, I\u2019ll introduce our related research work in robotic and haptic manipulation. In particular, autonomous grasping and inspection using a flexible arm such as an elephant trunk robot in cluttered and even unknown environments, appearance-based 3-D object recognition and 6-D pose estimation in cluttered environments where objects partially occlude one another, and haptic simulation of multi-contact interaction with both rigid and deformable objects. If time allows, I\u2019ll also briefly introduce our work on real-time adaptive motion planning and compliant motion for assembly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJing Xiao received her Ph.D. degree in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a professor of computer science in the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is also the site director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry\/University Cooperative Research Center (I\/UCRC) on Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-being. She served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs of CCI for five years (1\/2008-12\/2012). \u0026nbsp;She is the recipient of the 2015 CCI Outstanding Faculty Research Award. Xiao served as the program director of the Robotics and Human Augmentation Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation for two and half years (8\/1998-12\/2000). Her research spans robotics, haptics, and intelligent systems, with a focus on robotic manipulation, compliant motion for assembly, real-time adaptive motion planning, and haptic rendering of multi-contact interactions. She has recently co-authored a monograph \u003Cem\u003EHaptic Rendering for Simulation of Fine Manipulation\u003C\/em\u003E (Springer), and her work has resulted in more than 130 publications in major robotics conferences, journals, and book chapters, and one patent. Xiao is an IEEE Fellow, and she has been elected twice as an administrative committee member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and has started serving as the vice president for Member Activities of RAS for her second two-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUNC-Charlotte\u2019s Jing Xiao\u0026nbsp;presents \u201cRobotic and Haptic Manipulation\u201d\u0026nbsp;as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the TSRB Banquet Hall from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jing Xiao presents \u201cRobotic and Haptic Manipulation\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2016-01-07 18:17:29","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:15","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-01-20T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-01-20T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-01-20T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-01-20 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-01-20 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-01-20 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"483361":{"id":"483361","type":"image","title":"Jing Xiao","body":null,"created":"1452265200","gmt_created":"2016-01-08 15:00:00","changed":"1475895236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:56","alt":"Jing Xiao","file":{"fid":"204247","name":"xiao.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/xiao_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/xiao_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":43097,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/xiao_0.jpg?itok=vXx6bXjp"}}},"media_ids":["483361"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/webpages.uncc.edu\/xiao\/","title":"Jing Xiao"},{"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":""}},"483371":{"#nid":"483371","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Robotics Seminar\u2013Matthias Scheutz","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETufts University\u2019s Matthias Scheutz\u0026nbsp;presents \u201cTowards an Integrated Architecture for Open-World Human-Robot Interactions\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the\u0026nbsp;Molecular Science and Engineering Bldg., Room G011, 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\u003E\u201cOpen-world\u201d human-robot interactions differ significantly from \u201cclosed-world\u201d human-robot interactions because not all task-relevant information is available at the beginning of the interaction in the former (while it is in the latter). As a result, robots need to be able to acquire new knowledge online during task execution in open-world scenarios, which requires additional functionality in the cognitive robotic architecture to deal with unknown entities (such as words, objects, locations, actions, events, goals, etc.).\u0026nbsp;In this presentation, I will provide an overview of our recent efforts towards developing an integrated architecture for open-world HRI and demonstrate some of the novel algorithms using videos from human-robot interaction scenarios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatthias Scheutz is a professor in Cognitive and Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology, and the Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering at Tufts University. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1995, and a joint Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington in 1999.\u0026nbsp; Scheutz has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in artificial intelligence, artificial life, agent-based computing, natural language processing, cognitive modeling, robotics, human-robot interaction, and foundations of cognitive science.\u0026nbsp;As director of the Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts, his current research focuses on complex cognitive and affective robots with natural language capabilities for natural human-robot interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETufts University\u2019s Matthias Scheutz\u0026nbsp;presents \u201cTowards an Integrated Architecture for Open-World Human-Robot Interactions\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the\u0026nbsp;Molecular Science and Engineering Bldg., Room G011, from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Matthias Scheutz presents a seminar as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2016-01-07 19:21:14","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:15","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-01-27T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-01-27T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-01-27T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-01-27 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-01-27 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-01-27 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"483381":{"id":"483381","type":"image","title":"Matthias Scheutz","body":null,"created":"1452265200","gmt_created":"2016-01-08 15:00:00","changed":"1475895236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:56","alt":"Matthias Scheutz","file":{"fid":"204248","name":"matthias.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/matthias_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/matthias_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21633,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/matthias_0.jpg?itok=xO1m72rj"}}},"media_ids":["483381"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"http:\/\/hrilab.tufts.edu\/","title":"Matthias Scheutz"}],"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":""}},"483391":{"#nid":"483391","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Robotics Seminar\u2013Marc Toussaint","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of Stuttgart\u2019s Marc\u0026nbsp;Toussaint presents \u201cFrom (Inverse) Optimal Control to Joint (Cooperative) Sequential Manipulation and Motion Planning\u201d as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the GTMI Auditorium 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\u003EWith this talk my aim is to give a more integrated view on my research. I will start with the planning-as-inference framework and its implications in the context of stochastic optimal control. While this, in principle, allows us to exploit any probabilistic inference method, in concrete robotics applications I typically use the Laplace approximation, which leads back to a path optimization problem. I will discuss efficient, 2nd-order constraint path optimization methods that exploit the problem structure and our work on inverse optimal control based on this framework. Switching to higher-level reasoning, I will then briefly discuss our work on learning and planning in relational Markov decision processes\u2014the core open problem for applying this in real-world robotics clearly is the symbol grounding or acquisition problem. Our recent work on logic-geometric programming, which proposes a joint-path optimization and task planning formulation, combines a first-order symbolic description of the kinematic structure of sequential manipulation into the mathematical program over a path. This joint formulation of symbolic decision and path optimization problems also guides our recent work on human-robot cooperative manipulation. Throughout the talk I will mention more applications we work on, including exploring the environment to find manipulable degrees of freedom, manipulation skill learning, manipulation POMDPs, inverse optimal control, and cooperative assembly of IKEA items.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarc Toussaint has been a professor of machine learning and robotics at the University of Stuttgart since 2012. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Free University Berlin, leading an Emmy Noether research group at TU Berlin, and also spent two years as a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Toussaint\u2019s research focuses on the combination of decision theory and machine learning, motivated by fundamental research questions in robotics. Reoccurring themes in his research are appropriate representations (symbols, temporal abstractions, relational representations) to enable efficient learning and manipulation in real-world environments, and how to achieve jointly geometric, logic, and probabilistic learning and reasoning. Currently, Toussaint is the coordinator of the German research priority programme on Autonomous Learning, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of AI Research (JAIR), a reviewer for the German Research Foundation, and a programme committee member of several top conferences in the field (UAI, R:SS, ICRA, IROS, AIStats, ICML). 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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\u003EFor autonomous systems to operate in stochastic environments, they have to be equipped with fast decision-making processes to reason about the best possible action. Grounded on first principles in stochastic optimal control theory and statistical physics, the path integral framework provides a mathematically sound methodology for decision making under uncertainty. It also creates opportunities for the development of novel sampling-based planning and control algorithms that are highly parallelizable. In this talk, I will present results in the area of sampling-based control that go beyond classical formulations and show applications to robotics and autonomous systems for tasks such as manipulation, grasping, and high-speed navigation. In addition to sampling-based stochastic control, alternative methods that rely on uncertainty propagation using stochastic variational integrators and polynomial chaos theory will be presented and their implications to trajectory optimization and state estimation will be demonstrated. At the end of this talk, and towards closing the gap between high-level reasoning\/decision making and low-level organization\/computation, I will highlight the interdependencies between theory, algorithms, and forms of computation and discuss future computational technologies in the area of autonomy and robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvangelos A. Theodorou is an assistant professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also affiliated with the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines. 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In this talk, I will give an overview of some of our previous work in collaboration with Ford Motor Company in full-scale automated driving. In particular, we\u2019ll look at some of our successes in high-definition map building and precision localization, including our recent work in cross-modality localization using vision within a priori LIDAR maps as well as localization in snow using Gaussian mixture maps. We\u2019ll also discuss our new unique Mcity test facility for connected and automated driving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan M. Eustice is an associate professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan where he additionally holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 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He is recipient of a NSF CAREER Award and an ONR Young Investigator Award, and he is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and a former editor of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (2010-2015). 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