CPSC 689-608: Seminar in Robotics
Tuesday/Research Presentations
Spring 2002

• TUESDAY JANUARY 29, 2002
  • A PRM for Protein Folding - Guang Song
    Reading (summary required):
    • Using Motion Planning to Study Protein Folding Pathways

• TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2002
  • A PRM for Ligand Binding - Burchan Bayazit
    Reading (summary required):
    • Ligand Binding with OBPRM and Haptic User Input

• TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2002
  • Protein-Protein Interactions - Shawna Thomas
    Reading (summary required):
    • TBA

• TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2002
  • Teaching Robots - Dongmin Zhang
    Reading (summary required):
    • TBA

• TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2002
  • Automatically Generating Virtual Guided Tours - Jyh-Ming Line
    Reading (summary required):
    • Automatically Generating Virtual Guided Tours
  • Motion Control of a Mobile Robot Using an Expert System and Artificial Neural Networks - Marco Morales
    Reading (summary required):
    • Motion Control of a Mobile Robot Using an Expert System and Artificial Neural Networks
    Reading (for reference, summary NOT required):
    • New Approaches to Robotics

• TUESDAY MARCH 5, 2002
  • Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation - Jinsuck Kim, Roger Pearce, Rick Stover, B. Sandhu
    Reading (summary required):
    • An Integrated Mobile Robot Path (Re)Planner and Localizer for Personal Robots

• TUESDAY MARCH 19, 2002:
  • Intelligent User Interfaces for Robots - Aimee Vargas
    Reading (summary required):
    • R2D2 in a Softball: The Portable Satellite Assistant (very easy)
    • Human Interaction with Intelligent Service Robots (very easy)
    • And choose one of:
      • An Assitive Robotic Agent for Pedestrian Mobility
      • A Simulated Environment for Mobile Robots Driven with Multimodal Commands (Figures: Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig 4 Fig 5 )
  • Identifying Secondary Structure - Lydia Tapia
    Reading:
    • TBA

• TUESDAY MARCH 26, 2002:
  • Kinematics-Based PRM for Closed Chain Systems - Dawen Xie
    Reading (summary required):
    • A Kinematics-Based Probabilistic Roadmap Method for Closed Chain Systems
  • Animation - Erin Devoy
    Reading (summary required):
    • TBA

• TUESDAY APRIL 2, 2002:
  • GAs for Performance Prediction - Jack Perdue (Intro: .ppt .ppt .ppt -- Tutorial)
    Reading (summary required):
    • TBA
  • Behavior-Based Computing - Mark Mathis
    Reading (summary required):
    • A Model for Natural and Artificial MIMD Systems
    • A Game-Theoretic Formulation of Multi-Agent Resource Allocation
    • Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks

• TUESDAY APRIL 9, 2002:
  • A Protein Folding Toolkit - Xinyu Tang
    Reading (summary required):
    • TBA
  • Visualization of Seismic Rays - Derek Kurth
    Reading (summary required):
    • A Parallel Solution to Geophysical Waveform Analysis using STAPL
  • Active Vision Navigation - Maitreyi Nanjanath
    Reading (summary required):
    • Mobile Robot Navigation Using Active Vision -- Chapter 5 only (pp. 61-88)
      (Also available from citeseer)

  • TUESDAY APRIL 16, 2002:
    • Neuron PRM - Pei He, Marco Morales, Jyh-Ming Lien
      Reading (summary required):
      • TBA

  • TUESDAY APRIL 23, 2002:
    • Unfolding Polyhedra - Kasthuri Srinivasan Kannan
      Reading (summary required):
      • TBA
    • Fuzzy PRM, Lazy PRM - Jin Wang
      Reading (summary required):
      • A Two Level Fuzzy PRM for Manipulation Planning
      • Path Planning Using Lazy PRM

  • TUESDAY APRIL 30, 2002:
    • Ariadne's Clew Algorithm for Motion Planning - Shari Naik
      Reading (summary required):
      • The Ariadne's Clew Algorithm: Global Planning with Local Methods
    • The RRT Algorithm for Motion Planning - Sam Rodriguez
      Reading (summary required):
      • TBA

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  Nancy Amato (amato@cs.tamu.edu)