Graduate robotics seminar series - Wed 2/27 @ 12 pm

[Richard Primerano]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce the formation of a new graduate student led robotics seminar series. The series will consist of both technical and tutorial talks, generally given by students from the various robotics research labs. The first seminar (with two 30 minute talks) is scheduled for this Wednesday, Feb 27 from 12pm to 1pm in Bossone 302.

Speaker: James Worcester, Scalable Autonomous Systems Laboratory

Title:  Distributed Assembly with Ant Colony Optimization

Summary:  We approach the distributed robotics task of assembling a structure by using an extension of an evolutionary algorithm called Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to assign tasks.  The objective is to minimize the workload imbalance among a group robots.  Three versions of the algorithm are compared against each other and against a deterministic approach.

Speaker: William Hilton, Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory
Title: Controlling Humanoid Robot Motion

Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of the Hubo project at Drexel, and explain its role in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. It will describe some of the challenges involved in controlling humanoid robots, explain the concept of inverse kinematics, and talk about advanced methods of controlling Hubo, such as motion capture and tele-operation.

Please pass this message along to any colleagues that may be interested in the event. I hope to see you there.

Thank you,
Rich

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Richard Primerano, Ph.D.
Drexel University
ECE Department
Bossone 413H
215 895-2315

[M. Ani Hsieh]

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