IRIM Symposium Overview
IRIM hosts each semester a symposium to feature presentations from faculty and presentations of research that has been funded by our IRIM seed grant program in the last year.
The symposium is a chance for faculty to meet new PhD students on campus, as well as a chance to get a better idea of what IRIM colleagues are up to these days. The goal of the symposium is to spark new ideas, new collaborations, and even new friends!
IRIM's Fall 2022 Symposium
August 24, 2022 | 9AM - 4PM
Marcus Nanotechnology Building 1116
345 Ferst Drive | Atlanta GA, 30332
Event Agenda
9:00AM | Registration (Includes coffee and snacks)
9:30AM | Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Seth Hutchinson; Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics
9:45 AM | Continuum Robots in Surgery and Agriculture
Yue Chen; Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering
10:00 AM | Robot-assisted Online Monitoring & Maintenance for Nuclear Power Plants
Fan Zhang; Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
10:15 AM | Platform for Immersive Technical Training in Virtual Reality (PITT-VR);
Alexis Noel; Georgia Tech Research Institute
10:30 AM | Physics-based Machine Perception for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Kok Meng Lee; Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
10:45 AM | BREAK
11:00 AM | Visually Estimating Contact Pressure for Humans and Robots
Charlie Kemp; Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering
11:15 AM | Lifelong Robot Learning in an Open World
Zsolt Kira; Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing
11:30 AM | Research Adventures at the Intersection of Control and Robotics
Panos Tsiotras; David & Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair, School of Aerospace Engineering
11:45 AM | Dual Arm Compliant Control Framework
Nathan Damen; Georgia Tech Research Institute
12:00 PM | Data-Driven Control Strategies for Wearable Lower-Limb Robotic Systems
Aaron Young; Associate Professor,School of Mechanical Engineering
12:15 PM | LUNCH; Box lunches provided to registered attendees
1:00 PM | IRIM Updates
Seth Hutchinson; Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics
1:15 PM | A Distributional Framework for Control, Estimation, and Learning
Yongxin Chen; Assistant Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering
1:30 PM | Safe Legged Locomotion, Navigation, and Coordination: How to Make Interactive Decisions in
Dynamically-changing Environments
Ye Zhao; Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
1:45 PM | Safe Autonomy from Run-Time Assurance
Sam Coogan; Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:00 PM | Security for Control in Intelligence Cyber-Physical Systems
Kyriakos Vamvoudakis; Assistant Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering
2:15 PM | BREAK
2:30 PM | Structured Algorithms for Robots That Want to Get Along
Harish Ravichandar; Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing
2:45 PM | Medical Robotics Research at the RoboMed Lab
Jaydev Desai; Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering
3:00 PM | Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Adapting to Open World Novelty
Mark Riedl; Professor, College of Computing
3:15 PM | The Importance of Shared Mental Models for Human-Robot Interaction
Karen Feigh; Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering
3:30 PM | Safe, Active, and Online Robot Learning
Matthew Gombolay; Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing
2021 Symposium Video Archives
August 2021 Speakers
Click the talk title to view the lecture on the SMARTech repository.
- Sonia Chernova | AI CARING Institute Overview
- Greg Sawicki | Augmenting Human Locomotion with Lower-limb Exoskeletons
- Matthew Gombolay | Interactive Robot Learning: From Apprenticeship to Teaming
- Harish Ravichandar | Structured Methods for an Unstructured World: Toward Reliable and Collaborative Robots
- Woonhong Yeo | Soft Nanomembrane Sensors and Electronics for Integration with Robots
- Jaydev Desai | Medical Robotics Research at the RoboMed Lab
- Gil Weinberg | Robotic Musicianship
- Samuel Coogan | Safe Autonomy from Run-Time Assurance
- Panos Tsiotras | Research Adventures at the intersection of Control and Robotics
- Frank Dellaert | Factor Graphs for Action
- Fumin Zhang | Maritime Robotic Sensing Networks
- Kyriakos Vamvoudakis | Bridging Reinforcement Learning and Motion Planning
- Sehoon Ha | Deep Reinforcement Learning for Legged Robots
- Ellen Mazumdar | Sensors, Soft Actuators, and Robotic Systems
- Ye Zhao | Resilient Locomotion and Manipulation: Symbolic-Decision-Aware Trajectory Optimization and Perception Considerations
- Jun Ueda | Safe, Secure, and Stable Motion Control of Telemanipulators
- Aaron Young | The EPIC lab: Assisting human locomotion and rehabilitation using wearable robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Zsolt Kira | Adaptive and Data-Efficient Robot Learning
- Patricio Vela | Robot Autonomy from a Systems Perspective: Reliably Closing the Loop
- Charlie Kemp | From One to Many: My Personal Quest for Meaningful Mobile Manipulation
- Dhruv Batra | Robotics is too important to be left to the Roboticists
