Seminar Humanoid Robots - SS 2011

• The seminar takes place on Monday, July 18. We start at 9.00 a.m. (s.t.), please be on time!
• Location: 101, room 02 016 / 018.

• Organizers: Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz (Juniorprof.) and Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard
• Co-Organizers: Dipl. Inf. Henrik Kretzschmar, Dipl. Inf. Daniel Maier, and Dipl. Inf. Kai Wurm
• The seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" on 18./19.7. in building 101, room 02 016 / 018.
• 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 May 3, 9.00(!) a.m. (for registered students only) in building 101, room 02 016 / 018.
• 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 3 at the latest.
• A first version of the summary must be sent to the superviser on July 6. You can revise the summary once according to the comments of your supervisor. The final version has to be submitted by July 13.
• 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. O. Kanoun, J.-P. Laumond, and E. Yoshida
   Planning Foot Placements for a Humanoid Robot: A Problem of Inverse Kinematics
   published in The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2011
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
2. M.J. Schuster, J. Okerman, H. Nguyen, J.M. Rehg, and C.C. Kemp
   Perceiving Clutter and Surfaces for Object Placement in Indoor Environments
   presented at Humanoids, 2010
   [supervisor: Kai Wurm]
   
   
3. J. Scholz and M. Stilman
   Combining Motion Planning and Optimization for Flexible Robot Manipulation
   presented at IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics 2010
   [supervisor: Henrik Kretzschmar]
   
   
4. M. Mistry, A. Murai, K. Yamane, and J. Hodgins
   Sit-to-Stand Task on a Humanoid Robot from Human Demonstration
   presented at IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics 2010
   [supervisor: Henrik Kretzschmar]
   
   
5. Mike Stilman and James J. Kuffner
   Planning Among Movable Obstacles with Artificial Constraints
   published in The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2008
   [supervisor: Wolfram Burgard]
   
   
6. Mike Stilman, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami, and James J. Kuffner
   Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles
   published in Int. Journal of Advanced Robotics, 2007
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
7. Hai-Ning Wu, Martin Levihn, and Mike Stilman
   Navigation Among Movable Obstacles in Unknown Environments
   published at IROS, 2010
   [supervisor: Wolfram Burgard]