Seminar Humanoid Robots - SS 2010

Seminar Humanoid Robots

• The seminar takes place on Wednesday, July 21. We start at 9.30 a.m., please be on time!
• Location: 051, room: 051 00 006.

From	To	Presenter
9:30	10:10	Alexander Dippel
10:10	10:50	Thomas Huber
10:50	11:00	10 minutes break
11:00	11:40	Timm Schneevoigt
11:40	12:20	Nichola Abdo
12:20	13:10	50 minutes break
13:10	13:50	Philipp Ruchti
13:50	14:30	Daniel Kuhner


Requirements & Information

• Organizers: Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz (Juniorprof.), Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard, PD Dr. Cyrill Stachniss, Dipl. Inf. Armin Hornung , Dipl. Inf. Kai Wurm
• The seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" on July 21/22, location: 051 00 006 (wed) / 051 00 031 (thu). The exact schedule will be announced in July.
• 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 first meeting will be on April 21, 10 a.m. (for registered students only) in building 51, room 051 00 006.
• Topics will be assigned in the first meeting.
• A first version of the slides for the presentation must be sent to the superviser on July 11 at the latest.
• A first version of the summary must be sent to the superviser on July 14. You can revise the summary once according to the comments of your supervisor. The final version has to be submitted by July 18.
• The summaries should be 7 pages long at maximum (latex, a4wide, 11pt). For the 7 page limit, we just count the text, not the images and references. Longer summaries will not be accepted!


Papers


1. Kris Hauser, Tim Bretl, Kensuke Harada, and Jean-Claude Latombe
   Non-Gaited Humanoid Locomotion Planning
   published in Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, 2008
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
2. Rawichote Chalodhorn and Rajesh P.N. Rao
   Using Eigenposes for Lossless Periodic Human Motion Imitation
   IROS 2009
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
3. J.-S. Gutmann, M. Fukuchi, and M. Fujita
   Real-time path planning for humanoid robot navigation
   International Joint Conferences On Artificial Intelligence 2005
   [supervisor: Armin Hornung]
   
   
4. T.-Y. Li, P.-F. Chen, P.-Z. Huang
   Motion planning for humanoid walking in a layered environment
   ICRA 2003
   [supervisor: Armin Hornung]
   
   
5. G. Sibley, C. Mei, I. Reid and P. Newman
   Adaptive relative bundle adjustment
   RSS 2009
   [supervisor: Cyrill Stachniss]
   
   
6. Rosen Diankov, Takeo Kanade, and James Kuffner
   Integrating Grasp Planning and Visual Feedback for Reliable Manipulation
   Humanoids 2009
   [supervisor: Cyrill Stachniss]
   
   
7. David B. Grimes and Rajesh P.N. Rao
   Learning Nonparametric Policies by Imitation
   IROS 2008
   [supervisor: Kai Wurm]
   
   
8. Philipp Michel, Christian Scheurer, James Kuffner, Nikolaus Vahrenkamp and Ruediger Dillmann
   Planning for Robust Execution of Humanoid Motions using Future Perceptive Capability
   IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2007
   [supervisor: Kai Wurm]
   
   
9. A. Ijspeert, J. Nakanishi, S. Schaal
   Learning Attractor Landscapes for Learning Motor Primitives
   presented at NIPS 2002
   [supervisor: Wolfram Burgard]
   
   
10. K. Harada, S. Kajita, K. Kaneko, and H. Hirukawa
    Dynamics and balance of a humanoid robot during manipulation tasks
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No.3, (2006)
    [supervisor: Wolfram Burgard]