IRIM hosts each semester a symposium to feature presentations from faculty and presentations of research that has been funded by our IRIM seed grant program in the last year.

The symposium is a chance for faculty to meet new PhD students on campus, as well as a chance to get a better idea of what IRIM colleagues are up to these days. The goal of the symposium is to spark new ideas, new collaborations, and even new friends!

Agenda

9:00AM | Registration (Includes coffee and snacks)

9:30AM | Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Seth Hutchinson; Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics

9:45 AM | Continuum Robots in Surgery and Agriculture

Yue Chen; Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering

10:00 AM | Robot-assisted Online Monitoring & Maintenance for Nuclear Power Plants

Fan Zhang; Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

10:15 AM | Platform for Immersive Technical Training in Virtual Reality (PITT-VR);

Alexis Noel; Georgia Tech Research Institute

10:30 AM | Physics-based Machine Perception for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Kok Meng Lee; Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

10:45 AM | BREAK

11:00 AM | Visually Estimating Contact Pressure for Humans and Robots

Charlie Kemp; Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering

11:15 AM | Lifelong Robot Learning in an Open World

Zsolt Kira; Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing

11:30 AM | Research Adventures at the Intersection of Control and Robotics

Panos Tsiotras; David & Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair, School of Aerospace Engineering

11:45 AM | Dual Arm Compliant Control Framework

Nathan Damen; Georgia Tech Research Institute

12:00 PM | Data-Driven Control Strategies for Wearable Lower-Limb Robotic Systems

Aaron Young; Associate Professor,School of Mechanical Engineering

12:15 PM | LUNCH; Box lunches provided to registered attendees

1:00  PM | IRIM Updates

Seth Hutchinson; Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics

1:15  PM | TBA

Yongxin Chen; Assistant Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

1:30 PM | Safe Legged Locomotion, Navigation, and Coordination: How to Make Interactive Decisions in Dynamically-changing Environments

Ye Zhao; Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

1:45 PM | Safe Autonomy from Run-Time Assurance

Sam Coogan; Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2:00 PM | Security for Control in Intelligence Cyber-Physical Systems

Kyriakos Vamvoudakis; Assistant Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

2:15 PM | BREAK

2:30 PM | Structured Algorithms for Robots That Want to Get Along

Harish Ravichandar; Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing

2:45 PM | Medical Robotics Research at the RoboMed Lab

Jaydev Desai; Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering

3:00 PM | Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Adapting to Open World Novelty

Mark Riedl; Professor, College of Computing

3:15 PM | Safe, Active, and Online Robot Learning

Matthew Gombolay; Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing

3:30 PM | TBA

Karen Feigh; Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering