Session WedAT1 Pegaso A Wednesday, October 10, 2012 ... - Lirmm

Session WedGJT11 Hidra Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 17:30–18:30
Jubilee Videos I
Chair T. J. Tarn, Washington Univ.
Co-Chair Hong Zhang, Univ. of Alberta
17:30–17:40 WedGJT11.1
Telexistence — from 1980 to 2012
Susumu Tachi, Kouta Minamizawa,
Masahiro Furukawa and Charith Fernando
Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan
• Telexistence allows a human
being to experience a realtime
sensation of being in a
place other than his/her
actual location and to interact
with the remote environment,
which may be real, virtual, or
a combination of both.
• Telexistence in the real
environment through a virtual
environment is possible.
• 32 years of telexistence
development are historically
reviewed in this jubilee video.
17:50–18:00 WedGJT11.3
The Birth of the Brain-Controlled Wheelchair
Tom Carlson, Robert Leeb, Ricardo Chavarriaga
and José del R. Millán
Chair in Non-Invasive Brain Machine Interface,
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• We have striven to push BCI technology
out of the lab, into the real world
• We describe the evolution of BCI
applications from cursors to games,
telepresence robots and wheelchairs
• Coupling BCIs with shared control
reduces workload and results in safe
and reliable control
• We culminate with the first patient trial
of a motor-imagery based BCI
wheelchair
18:10–18:20 WedGJT11.5
A Decade of Rescue Robots
Robin R. Murphy
Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, Texas A&M, USA
• Land, marine and aerial robotics have
been reported at 26 disasters, starting with
2001 World Trade Center through the
Tohoku Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear
Event
• Used for: searching for victims,
reconnaissance and mapping, inspection
of building and bridges
• Very successful though have not found
any living survivors
• Open research questions in: human-robot
interaction, mobile manipulation, reliable
wireless networks, and obstacle avoidance
for small UAVs and UMVs
One of the 26 deployments: Use
of UMVs for Tohoku Tsunami
17:40–17:50 WedGJT11.2
The Dynamo Project:
The World’s First Robot Soccer Players
Alan K. Mackworth
Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Video showing the world’s first autonomous robot soccer players
• Outcomes of experiments using small scale radio controlled trucks and
cars to play robot soccer
• Pioneering work carried out over the period 1992-1994 in the Dynamo
project at the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence
• Precursors to the RoboCup robot soccer competitions that started in 1997
18:00–18:10 WedGJT11.4
CoBots: Collaborative Robots
Servicing Multi-Floor Buildings
Manuela Veloso, Joydeep Biswas, Brian Coltin,
Stephanie Rosenthal, Tom Kollar, Cetin Mericli,
Mehdi Samadi, and Susana Brandao
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Rodrigo Ventura
ECE Department, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
• CoBots (Collaborative Robots) perform
service tasks for humans indoors
• Building on the past 25 years of robotics
research, this video showcases research
with CoBot, including:
• A visitor-companion robot & tour guide
• Wifi and kinect localization
• Navigation and obstacle avoidance
• Telepresence and simulation
• Symbiotic autonomy and using the web
• Sending message and making
deliveries for humans
• Riding the elevator with human help
2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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