The symposium is a chance for faculty to meet new robotics 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!
9:00am | Registration
9:30am | Seth Hutchinson - Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:45am | Sehoon Ha - Learning Interactive Skills of Legged Robots
10:00am | Stephen Balakirsky - Knowledge Driven Robotics
10:15am | Matthew Gombolay - RoboFederer: Towards Human-Robot Team Athletics
10:30am | Sonia Chernova - Autonomy in Human Spaces
10:45am | Break
11:00am | Danfei Xu - Towards a Data Flywheel for Long-horizon Manipulation
11:15am | Harish Ravichandar - New Wine in an Old Bottle: Classical Methods as Scaffolding for Robot Learning
11:30am | Zsolt Kira - Vision and Language Foundation Models for Open-World Robotics
11:45am | James Hayes - Understanding Grasping, Contact, and Pressure
12:00pm | Animesh Garg - Science and Systems for Foundation Models Manipulation
12:15pm - 1:15pm | Lunch [Box lunches provided to registered attendees]
1:15pm | Ai-Ping Hu - Agricultural Robotics at Georgia Tech
1:30pm | W. Hong Yeo - Smart and Connected Bioelectronics for Integration with Robots
1:45pm | Ellen Yi Chen Mazumdar - Soft and Additively Manufacturable Electromagnetic Actuators
2:00pm | Yue Chen - Tentacle-like Continuum Robots
2:15pm | Greg Sawicki - Beyond reducing cost of transport: What can lower-limb exoskeletons do on the shortest and longest timescales?
2:30pm | Ye Zhao- Can humanoid robots move and manipulate like humans?
2:45pm | Break
3:00pm | Spyros Reveliotis - Traffic Control of Multi-Agent Systems Circulating on Graphs
3:15pm | Shreyas Kousik - Towards Safe Full-Stack Design for Autonomous Robots
3:30pm | Charlie Kemp - TBA
3:45pm | Panos Tsiotras – Large-scale Stochastic Team Games
4:15pm | Closing Remarks
4:30pm - 6:30pm | Poster Session
6:00pm - 9:00pm | Robotics Meet-Up