Seminar Robot Navigation - WS 2012/13

Seminar Robot Navigation

• Organizers: Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz (Juniorprof.) and Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard
• Co-Organizers: Daniel Maier, Christoph Sprunk, Pratik Agarwal, Markus Kuderer, Nichola Abdo, and Henrik Kretzschmar
• 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 online registration system. We apply the strategy: first come, first serve.
• The seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" on February 19th in building 101, room 01-016.
• The first meeting will be on Monday, October 29, 2.00 p.m. in room 00-010/014, building 101 (for registered students only) .
• A first version of the slides for the presentation must be sent to the superviser on January 20 at the latest.
• A first version of the summary must be sent to the superviser on February 3. You can revise the summary once according to the comments of your supervisor. The final version has to be submitted by February 10.
• The summaries should be 7 pages long at maximum (latex, a4wide, 11pt) not counting the bibliography and figures. Significantly longer summaries will not be accepted.
• Topics will be assigned in the first meeting.
• A list of papers will be published soon.

• The seminar takes place on Tuesday, February 19th in building 101, room 01-016.

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. Winston Churchill and Paul Newman
   Practice Makes Perfect? Managing and Leveraging Visual Experiences for Lifelong Navigation
   ICRA 2012
   [supervisor: Henrik Kretzschmar]
   
   
3. F. Fraundorfer, L. Heng, D. Honegger, G. Lee, L. Meier, P. Transkanen, M. Pollefeys
   Vision-Based Autonomous Mapping and Exploration Using a Quadrotor MAV
   IROS 2012
   [supervisor: Daniel Maier]
   
   
4. Peter Henry, Michael Krainin, Evan Herbst, Xiaofeng Ren, and Dieter Fox
   RGB-D mapping: Using Kinect-style depth cameras for dense 3D modeling of indoor environments
   IJRR 2012
   [supervisor: Daniel Maier]
   
   
5. Emili Hernandez, Marc Carreras, Javier Antich, Pere Ridao and Alberto Ortiz
   A Topologically Guided Path Planner for an AUV Using Homotopy Classes
   ICRA 2011
   [supervisor: Markus Kuderer]
   
   
6. Mike Phillips, Benjamin Cohen, Sachin Chitta, and Maxim Likhachev
   E-Graphs: Bootstrapping Planning with Experience Graphs
   RSS 2012
   [supervisor: Nichola Abdo]
   
   
7. Adam Bry and Nicholas Roy
   Rapidly-exploring Random Belief Trees for Motion Planning Under Uncertainty
   ICRA 2011
   [supervisor: Nichola Abdo]
   
   
8. Mike Phillips and Maxim Likhachev
   SIPP: Safe Interval Path Planning for Dynamic Environments
   ICRA 2011
   [supervisor: Christoph Sprunk]
   
   
9. Max Pfingston and Andreas Birk
   Simultaneous localization and mapping with multimodal probability distribution
   IJRR 2012
   [supervisor: Pratik Agarwal]