Schedule | SBRS 2014

Program	October 17, 2014
8:45am onward	Registration
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome
9:15am - 10:00am	Long Talk: Michael Jordan
10:00am - 10:20am	Coffee Break
10:20am - 11:30am	Presentations (Session 1)
11:45am - 12:30pm	Poster Session
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Long Talk: Stephen Boyd
2:15pm - 2:30pm	Coffee Break
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Presentations (Session 2)
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm - 4:50pm	Presentations (Session 3)
4:50pm - 5:00pm	Closing address

Presentation Session 1

Time	Name	Affiliation	Talk Title
10:20am - 10:30am	Mark Cutkosky	Stanford University	Adhesive Scaling
10:30am - 10:40am	Ruzena Bajcsy	UC Berkeley	Cyberphysical Systems with Humans in the Loop
10:40am - 10:50am	Silvio Savarese	Stanford University	What makes an environment smart?
10:50am - 11:00am	Ken Goldberg	UC Berkeley	Learning by Observation for Surgical Subtasks
11:00am - 11:05am	Henry Bradlow	Lily Robotics	Adventures in Flight and Sight
11:05am - 11:10am	Morgan Quigley	OSRF	Free! Fun! New and improved! ROS 2 and Gazebo 4
11:10am - 11:15am	Lorenzo Riano	Bosch Research Institute	Semantic Point Clouds Interpretation
11:15am - 11:45am	Student Poster Highlights

Full Schedule

Click the title links to see YouTube videos of each talk; a playlist of the entire symposium may be found here.

Morning Program

8:45am onward	Registration
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome
9:15am - 10:00am	Michael Jordan: MAD-Bayes and SDA-Bayes: Towards Scalability for Bayesian Nonparametrics
10:00am - 10:20am	Coffee Break

Presentation Session 1

Time	Name	Affiliation	Talk Title
10:20am - 10:30am	Mark Cutkosky	Stanford University	Adhesive Scaling
10:30am - 10:40am	Ruzena Bajcsy	UC Berkeley	Cyberphysical Systems with Humans in the Loop
10:40am - 10:50am	Silvio Savarese	Stanford University	What makes an environment smart?
10:50am - 11:00am	Ken Goldberg	UC Berkeley	Learning by Observation for Surgical Subtasks
11:00am - 11:05am	Henry Bradlow	Lily Robotics	Adventures in Flight and Sight
11:05am - 11:10am	Morgan Quigley	OSRF	Free! Fun! New and improved! ROS 2 and Gazebo 4
11:10am - 11:15am	Lorenzo Riano	Bosch Research Institute	Semantic Point Clouds Interpretation
11:15am - 11:45am	Student Poster Highlights

Afternoon Program

11:45am - 12:30pm	Poster Session
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Stephen Boyd: 120 Years of Lyapunov's Methods
2:15pm - 2:30pm	Coffee Break

Presentation Session 2

Time	Name	Affiliation	Talk Title
02:30pm - 02:40pm	Steve Rock	Stanford University	Terrain-Relative Navigation for Return-to-Site AUV Missions in the Deep Ocean
02:40pm - 02:50pm	Allison Okamura	Stanford University	At Your Fingertips: Tactile Displays for Robotic Teleoperation and Augmented Reality
03:00pm - 03:10pm	Claire Tomlin	UC Berkeley	Safe Learning in Robotics
03:10pm - 03:20pm	Ron Fearing	UC Berkeley	Dynamic Locomotion with Millibots
03:20pm - 03:30pm	Cong Wang	UC Berkeley	Data-Driven Approaches for Better Motion Control

Coffee Break (3:30pm - 4:00pm)

Presentation Session 3

Time	Name	Affiliation	Talk Title
04:00pm - 04:10pm	Marco Pavone	Stanford University	Planning and Control for Spacecraft and Space Robots
04:10pm - 04:20pm	Oussama Khatib	Stanford University	Working with Robots
04:20pm - 04:30pm	Pieter Abbeel	UC Berkeley	Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics
04:30pm - 04:40pm	Mykel Kochenderfer	Stanford University	Decision Theoretic Planning for Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance
04:40pm - 04:50pm	Ashutosh Saxena	Cornell University	The Robo Brain Project

Closing Address (4:50pm - 5:00pm)

Student Poster Highlights

Time	Name	Affiliation	Talk Title
11:15am	Sergey Levine	UC Berkeley	Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation Skills with Guided Policy Search
11:16am	Aaron Matthew Bestick	UC Berkeley	Personalized Kinematics for Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation
11:17am	Ashwin Carvalho	UC Berkeley	Stochastic Predictive Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Dynamic Environments
11:18am	Eric Eason	Stanford	Adhesive Stress Distribution Measurement on a Gecko
11:19am	Duncan Haldane	UC Berkeley	Biomimetic Millisystems Lab: Overview
11:20am	Jung-Hwa Bae	Stanford	Detection of Membrane Puncture with Haptic Feedback using a Tip-Force Sensing Needle
11:21am	Jeff Mahler	UC Berkeley	GP-GPIS-OPT: Grasp Planning Under Shape Uncertainty Using Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces and Sequential Convex Programming
11:22am	Lizmarie Comenencia	Stanford	Toward Magnetic Guidance of Microcatheters in the Brain using a Single Permanent Magnet
11:23am	Andrew Stanley	Stanford	Integration of a Particle Jamming Tactile Display with a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot
11:24am	Sarah Houts	Stanford	Trajectory Planning for Motion-constrained AUVs in Uncertain Environments
11:25am	David Held	Stanford	Combining 3D Shape, Color, and Motion for Robust Anytime Tracking
11:26am	Kevin Haninger	UC Berkeley	Exoskeleton Design and Control
11:27am	Jose Padial	Stanford	Underwater Terrain-Relative Localization using Acoustic Shadows in Sonar Imagery
11:28am	Samir Menon	Stanford	Mapping Human Motor Models in the Brain with Haptics and fMRI
11:29am	Te Tang	UC Berkeley	Teaching Industrial Robot by Demonstration
11:30am	Kene Akametalu and Jamie Fisac	UC Berkeley	Improving Guarantees for Safe Reinforcement Learning using Model Validation
11:31am	Edward Schmerling	Stanford	Optimal Sampling-Based Motion Planning under Differential Constraints
11:32am	Sachin Patil	UC Berkeley	Scaling up Gaussian Belief Space Planning through Covariance-Free Trajectory Optimization
11:33am	Dylan Hadfield-Menell	UC Berkeley	Beyond Lowest-Warping Cost Action Selection in Trajectory Transfer
11:34am	Animesh Garg	UC Berkeley	Custom 3D Printed Implants for High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy
11:35am	Dipendra K Misra	Cornell	Context-Sensitive Grounding of Natural Language to Manipulation Instructions
11:36am	Yu Xiang	Stanford	Monocular Multiview Object Tracking with 3D Aspect Parts
11:37am	Hema Koppula	Cornell	Physically Grounded Spatio-temporal Object Affordances
11:38am	Rick Zhang	Stanford	Control of Robotic Mobility-on-Demand Systems: A Queueing-Theoretical Perspective
11:39am	Xiyang Yeh	Stanford	O2 : The Ocean Explorer - Design and Control Architecture