Seminar Humanoid Robots - SS 2008

From	To	Presenter
10:00	10:40	Alexander Schneider
10:40	11:20	Lionel Ott
11:20	11:40	Break
11:40	12:20	Sven Wehner
12:20	13:00	Max Fechner

• Organizers: Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard, Dr. Maren Bennewitz, Jürgen Sturm, and Felix Faber
• You have to prepare a talk of 30 minutes and to write a summary. Both can be done in English or German.
• The seminar is restricted to 9 students.
• Please register via the LSF (click here). We apply the strategy: first come, first serve.
• The seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" on July 28/29 starting at 10 a.m. in building 101, second floor, room 101 02 016/018.
• The first meeting will be on April 30, 4 p.m. (for registered students only) in building 79, first floor, room 079 00 019.
• The slides for the presentation must be shown to the superviser before July 6.
• The summaries of the presented work must be submitted by July 13.
• The summaries should be 7 pages long at maximum (latex, a4wide, 11pt). Significantly longer summaries will not be accepted!
• Papers will be assigned in the first meeting.

Papers

1. P. Michel, C. Scheurer, J. Kuffner, N. Vahrenkamp, and R. Dillmann
   Planning for Robust Execution of Humanoid Motions using Future Perceptive Capability
   presented at IROS 2007
   [Vortragender: Hadi Kheyruri, Betreuerin: Maren Bennewitz]
2. J. Cole, D. Grimes, R. Rao
   Learning Full-Body Motions from Monocular Vision: Dynamic Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
   presented at IROS 2007
   [Vortragender: Richard Zahoransky, Betreuerin: Maren Bennewitz]
3. J. Chestnutt, K. Nishiwaki, J. Kuffner, and S. Kagami
   An Adaptive Action Model for Legged Navigation Planning
   presented at HUMANOIDS 2007
   [Vortragender: Jakob Ziegler, Betreuerin: Maren Bennewitz]
4. S. Calinon, and A. Billard
   Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration
   presented at RO-MAN 2007
   [Vortragender: Johannes Aldinger, Betreuer: Jürgen Sturm]
5. M. Pardowitz and R. Dillmann
   Towards Life-Long Learning in Household Robots: the Piagetian Approach
   presented at ICDL' 07
   [Vortragender: Alexander Schneider, Betreuer: Jürgen Sturm]
6. J. Rebula, F. Canas, J. Pratt and A. Goswami
   Learning Capture Points for Humanoid Push Recovery
   presented at Humanoids 2007
   [Vortragender: Lionel Ott, Betreuer: Felix Faber]
7. C. Niehaus, T. Röfer, and T. Laue
   Gait-Optimization on a Humanoid Robot using Particle Swarm Optimization
   presented at 2nd Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots @ Humanoids 2007
   [Vortragender: Sven Wehner, Betreuer: Felix Faber]
8. K. Nickel and R. Stiefelhagen
   Fast Audio-Visual Multi-Person Tracking for a Humanoid Stereo Camera Head
   presented at Humanoids 2007
   [Vortragender: Max Fechner, Betreuer: Felix Faber]