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CS 791Z Syllabus

1 Mon Feb 02 Introduction
  • Current capabilities of humanoid platforms and mobile manipulators
  • Collecting presentation subjects
  • Assigning presentations
2 Mon Feb 09
Brendan
Yuandong
Motion Generation
Motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces is computationally very expensive. What are suitable approaches to generate motion for humanoid robots and mobile manipulators operating in dynamic environments?
* Mon Feb 16 Presidents' Day (moved to Feb 18)
3 Wed Feb 18
John
Patrick
Operational Space Control / Control
The idea of operational space control is to specify motion at the end-effector, rather than in terms of joint motion. Operational space control takes advantage of the Nullspace of Jacobians and thus is related to ideas around the control basis approach.
4 Mon Feb 23
John
TJ
Coordination of Mobility and Manipulation
The combination of mobility and manipulation capabilities usually results in redundant systems. The redundancy can be explited to coordinate mobility and manipulation intelligently.
5 Mon Mar 01
Bryan
Patrick
Bipedal Walking
Much of the engineering effort in today's humanoid platform is concerned with bipedal motion. Legged locomotion is considered to be more flexible than motion based on wheels.
6 Mon Mar 08
Rob
Grasping / Contact
Grasping and motion in contact are essential for any robotic system that interacts with a dynamic and insufficiently modelled environment.
* Mon Mar 15 Spring Break
7 Mon Mar 22
Bryan
Kim
Multi-Robot Cooperation
Ultimately, robots and humans as well as robots among themselves should be able to cooperate and work in team on a single task. Such cooperation requires adequate control methods.
8 Mon Mar 29
Brendan
Steve
Learning in Humanoid Systems
To address the complexities that arise during task execution in everyday environments, robots will have to be able to improve their performance based on experience.
9 Mon Apr 05
Emily
Rob
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
10 Mon Apr 12
Steve
Will
Vision for Grasping or Interfaces
  • Grasping and Tracking Using Constant Curvature Dynamic Contours
    D.P. Perrin, E. Kadioglu, S.A. Stoeter and N. Papanikolopoulos. International Journal of Robotics Resarch 22(10/11):885-872, 2003.
  • Special Issue on Visual Servoing. International Journal of Robotics Resarch 22(10/11).
  • The Dynamic Representation of Scenes
    Ronald Rensink. Visual Cognition, 7:17-42, 2000.
  • Seeing, Sensing, and Scrutinzing
    Ronald Rensink. Vision Research, 40:1469-1487, 2000.
  • Change Detection
    Ronald Rensink. Annu. Rev. Psychol., 53:245-277, 2002.
  • Probabilistic Models of Appearance for 3D Object Recognition
    Pope, Lowe. Computer Vision, 2000
* Mon Apr 19 Patriot's Day (moved to Apr 22)
11 Thu Apr 22 Canceled
12 Mon Apr 26
Kim
Chao
Human Robot Interfaces / Applications / Misc
13 Mon May 03
Will
Yuandong
Efficient Dynamic Simulation
Since mobile manipulation platforms and humanoid systems are very commplex, expensive, and potentially fragile machines, simulation becomes an increasingly important means of performing experimental validation for research.
14 Mon May 10
TJ
Chao
Task Descriptions