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Advance Program

Wednesday, January 31

07:30-17:00 Registration  
07:30-08:30 Breakfast Veranda
08:30-09:00 Opening Ceremony Crystal Ballroom
09:00-09:50 Keynote Speech I
Semantic Mapping for Mobile Robots
Henrik I. Christensen, University of California, San Diego, USA
Crystal Ballroom
09:50-10:10 Coffee Break  
10:10-11:50 Plenary Panel Session
AI and VR
Crystal Ballroom
11:50-13:00 Lunch (on your own)  
13:00-13:50 Keynote Speech II
Automation vs. Augmentation: Socially Assistive Robotics and the Future of Work
Maja Mataric, University of Southern California, USA
Crystal Ballroom
13:50-14:00 Intermission  
14:00-14:50 Keynote Speech III
High Fidelity Simulations: The Critical Path to Real-World Robotics
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, USA
Crystal Ballroom
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break  
15:10-16:50 Parallel Sessions (1)  
  IRC(1) Software Architectures (I) Platinum Room
  IRC(2) Path Planning and Robot Navigation (I) Garnet Galley
  IRC(3) Task Planning and Multi-robot Systems Slate Room
16:50-17:00 Intermission  
17:00-18:00 Parallel Sessions (2)  
  IRC(4) Software Architectures (II) Platinum Room
  IRC(5) Path Planning and Robot Navigation (II) Garnet Galley
  IRC(6) Formal Methods for Analysis and Design Slate Room
18:00-19:00 Poster Session Mezzanine
19:30-21:30 Reception Crystal Ballroom

 

Thursday, February 1

07:30-17:00 Registration  
07:30-08:30 Breakfast Veranda
08:30-09:20 Keynote Speech IV
Identifying Malicious Actors in Online Platforms
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Crystal Ballroom
09:20-10:10 Coffee Break  
10:10-12:00 Parallel Sessions (3)  
  IRC(7) Human-robot Interaction Platinum Room
  IRC(8) Hardware Modeling and Abstraction Garnet Galley
  IRC(9) Sensor Fusion and Integration Slate Room
12:00-13:00 Lunch (on your own)  
13:00-13:50 Keynote Speech V
Planetary Robotic Exploration: Mobility and Autonomy
Issa A.D. Nesnas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Crystal Ballroom
13:50-14:40 Keynote Speech VI
Semantic Interoperability in the Internet of Everything Ecosystem
Ram D. Sriram, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Crystal Ballroom
14:40-15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions (4)  
  IRC(10) Software Architectures (III) Platinum Room
  IRC(11) Path Planning and Robot Navigation (III) Garnet Galley
  IRC(12) Robot Cognition Slate Room
16:00-16:10 Intermission  
16:10-18:00 Parallel Sessions (5)  
  IRC(13) Object Recognition and Tracking Platinum Room
  CHARMS(1) Collaboration of Humans, Agents, Robots, Machines and Sensors (I) Garnet Galley
  WSR(1) Semantic Robots (I) Slate Room
18:00-19:30 Break  
19:30-21:30 Banquet & Keynote Speech VII
What are the Semantics of VR
Craig Dietrich, Mellon Research Fellow, Occidental College, USA
Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz, CTO, RUST LTD. and USC, USA
Crystal Ballroom

 

Friday, February 2

07:30-17:00 Registration  
07:30-08:30 Breakfast Veranda
08:30-09:20 Keynote Speech VIII
Efficient Coding, Prediction and Mental Imagery for Intelligent, Cognitive Behavior in Robots
Jeffrey L. Krichmar, University of California, Irvine, USA
Crystal Ballroom
09:20-10:10 Keynote Speech IX
Fun! Free! Awesome! Advanced Robotics in the Era of Open Source Software
Brian Gerkey, Open Source Robotics Foundation, USA
Crystal Ballroom
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions (6)  
  CHARMS(2) Collaboration of Humans, Agents, Robots, Machines and Sensors (II) Garnet Galley
  WSR(2) Semantic Robots (II)

New Frontiers in Computational Robotics
Slate Room
12:00-13:00 Lunch (on your own)  
13:00-15:00 Tutorial I
Programming Multi-agent Systems with SARL
Sebastian Rodriguez, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
Platinum Room
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break  
15:20-17:20 Tutorial II
The Art of Abstractions “How-To” for Unified Robotic Systems
M.E. Fayad, San José State University, USA
David Hamu, Pacific Southwest Consulting Group, Inc., USA
Platinum Room