Welcome to the second Robotics: Science and Systems 2015 Workshop on Women in Robotics!
Below is a preliminary schedule.
9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome | |
9:05 - 10:30 | Session 1 | |
9:05 - 9:40 | Lydia Kavraki | Computing for Robots and Biomolecules |
9:40 - 10:05 | Katja Mombaur | Model-based optimization for robot motions |
10:05 - 10:30 | Marilena Venditteli | Vision-based control of humanoid robots |
10:30 - 11:00 | Break | |
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 | |
11:00 - 11:25 | Hadas Kress-Gazit | Formal Methods for Robotics |
11:25 - 11:45 | Spotlights: Learning from Experience and Demonstration | |
Chelsea Finn | End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies | |
Maria Koskinopoulou | Robot learning by Demonstration using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model | |
Sarah Elliott | Learning Generalizable Surface Cleaning Actions from Demonstration | |
Tesca Fitzgerald | A Similarity-Based Approach to Skill Transfer | |
11:45-12:10 | Laurel Riek | Ecological Robotics: Context Perception, Joint Action, and Learning |
12:10 - 12:30 | Spotlights: Perception and Control | |
Katharina Reichel | Real-Time Traversability Estimation and Local Footstep Planning in Dynamic Environments | |
Svetlana Potyagaylo | Towards Visual-Inertial Navigation of an Underwater Vehicle for Aquaculture Inspection Operation | |
Tanya Raghuvanshi | Automated Monoculr Visiton Based System for Picking Textureless Objects | |
Fatemeh Panahi | Pose Statistics for Eccentric Parts | |
12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30 - 14:55 | Session 3 | |
14:30 - 14:55 | Stefie Tellex | Human-Robot Collaboration. |
14:55 - 15:20 | Spotlights: Assistive and Medical Robotics | |
Katherine Pratt | Classifying EMG Signals for Virtual Control | |
Elaine Short | Multi-Party Socially Assistive Robotics: Defining the Moderator Role | |
Kiju Lee | Robotics and Tangible Game Technologies for Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation | |
Angela Faragasso | Visual Sensing System for Real-Time Stiffness Computation in Endoscopic Surgery | |
Antonia Tzemanaki | miuAngelo: A Novel System for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery | |
15:20 - 15:45 | Nancy Amato | The 2015 Women-Organized ICRA |
15:45 - 16:00 | Spotlights: Interaction and Teaming | |
Lixiao Huang | Two Years of Exploration of Human Emotional Responses toward Tournament Robots | |
Madhura Thosar | I Don't Find a Hammer, Can I Use a Rock? | |
Ramya Ramakrishnan | Perturbation Training for Human-Robot Teams | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Break | |
16:30 - 18:00 | Session 4 | |
16:30 - 17:30- | Poster Session | |
17:30 - 18:00 | Panel |