Seminar Humanoid Robots - SS 2012

• Organizers: Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz (Juniorprof.), Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard
and PD Dr. Cyrill Stachniss
• Co-Organizers: Dipl. Inf. Armin Hornung and Dipl. Inf. Daniel Maier
• The seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" on July 30 in room 079 00 019.
• Please register via the LSF (click here). We apply the strategy: first come, first serve.
• The first meeting will be on May 8, 2 p.m. in building 052, room 052 02 017.
• Topics will be assigned in the first meeting.
• You have to prepare a talk of approx. 30 minutes and to write a summary. Both can be done in English or German.
• The summaries should be about 7 pages long (latex, a4wide, 11pt). For the 7 page limit, we just count the text, not the images and references.
• A first version of the slides for the presentation must be sent to the superviser on July 15 at the latest.
• A first version of the summary must be sent to the superviser on July 18. You can revise the summary once according to the comments of your supervisor. The final version has to be submitted by July 25.

• The seminar takes place on Monday, July 30. We start at 9.30 a.m. (s.t.), please be on time!
• Location: Building 079, room 00 019.

Papers

1. Dmitry Berenson, Joel Chestnutt, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, James J. Kuffner, and Satoshi Kagami
   Pose-Constrained Whole-Body Planning using Task Space Region Chains
   HUMANOIDS 2009
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
2. Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi, and Michael Beetz
   Action-Related Place-Based Mobile Manipulation
   IROS 2009
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
3. Benjamin Cohen, Sachin Chitta, and Maxim Likhachev
   Search-Based Planning for Dual-Arm Manipulation with Upright Orientation Constraints
   ICRA 2012
   [supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]
   
   
4. Holger Täubig, Berthold Bäuml, and Udo Frese
   Real-time swept volume and distance computation for self collision detection
   IROS 2011
   [supervisor: Armin Hornung]
   
   
5. Mehmet Dogar and Siddhartha Srinivasa
   A Framework for Push-Grasping in Clutter
   RSS 2011
   [supervisor: Armin Hornung]
   
   
6. P. Michel, J. Chestnut, S. Kagami, K. Nishiwaki, J. Kuffner, and T. Kanade
   GPU-accelerated Real-Time 3D Tracking for Humanoid Locomotion and Stair Climbing
   IROS 2007
   [supervisor: Daniel Maier]
   
   
7. H. Strasdat, A.J. Davison, J.M.M. Montiel, and K. Konolige
   Double Window Optimisation for Constant Time Visual SLAM
   ICCV 2011
   [supervisor: Daniel Maier]
   
   
8. A. Ess et al.
   Object detection and tracking for autonomous navigation in dynamic environments
   IJRR 2010
   [supervisor: Cyrill Stachniss]
   
   
9. K. Saenko et al.
   Transferring Visual Category Models to New Domains
   Tech Report
   [supervisor: Cyrill Stachniss]