WAFR'98: Program
WAFR'98: Program
| 08:30 |  |
Breakfast |
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| 09:00 | Opening remarks | |
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| Session Chair: Karl-Friedrich Böhringer | ||
| 09:15 | Invited Talk:
Bruce Donald,
Dartmouth
Algorithmic MEMS | |
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| 10:05 | Universal Part Manipulation in the Plane with a Single
Horizontally-Vibrating Plate
Dan Reznik and John Canny |
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| 10:30 |
Velocity Field Design for Parcel Positioning and Orientation
on the Virtual Vehicle, a Discrete Distributed Actuator Array
Jonathan Luntz, Bill Messner, and Howie Choset |
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| 10:55 | Coffee break | |
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| Session Chair: Pankaj K. Agarwal | ||
| 11:25 |
The Complexity of the Two Dimensional Curvature-Constrained
Shortest-Path Problem
John Reif and Hongyan Wang |
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| 11:50 |
Approximation and Decision Algorithms for Curvature-Constrained
Path Planning: A State-Space Approach
Jürgen Sellen |
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| 12:15 |
Elastic bands for nonholonomic car-like robots: algorithms and
combinatorial issues
H. Jaouni, M. Khatib, and J.-P. Laumond |
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| 12:40 | Lunch | |
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| Session Chair: Jeff Trinkle | ||
| 02:30 | Invited Talk:
Richard Murray, Caltech
Trajectory Generation for Underactuated Mechanical Systems with Applications to Robotic Locomotion | |
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| 03:20 |
Mechanics, Planning, and Control for Tapping
Wesley H. Huang and Matthew T. Mason |
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| 03:45 | Coffee break | |
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| Session Chair: Matt Mason | ||
| 04:15 |
Planning for In-Hand Dextrous Manipulation
Moez Cherif and Kamal K. Gupta |
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| 04:40 |
Shape Recovery from Passive Locally Dense Tactile Data
Michael Erdmann |
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| 07:00 | Dinner | |
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| 08:30 | |
Breakfast |
| Session Chair: Jean-Paul Laumond | ||
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| 09:00 | Invited Talk: John Craig, Adept
Geometric Algorithms in AdeptRAPID | |
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| 09:50 |
On Finding Narrow Passages with Probabilistic Roadmap Planners
David Hsu, Lydia E. Kavraki, Jean-Claude Latombe, Rajeev Motwani, and Stephen Sorkin |
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| 10:15 |
OBPRM: An Obstacle-Based PRM for 3D Workspaces
Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Christopher Jones and Daniel Vallejo |
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| 10:40 | Coffee break | |
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| Session Chair: Jean Ponce | ||
| 11:10 | Invited Talk:
Joe Warren, Rice University
Subdivision: A Fractal-based Approach to Geometric Modeling |
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| 12:00 |
Spherical Shells: A Higher Order Bounding Volume for Fast Proximity Queries
S. Krishnan, A. Pattekar, M. Lin, and D. Manocha |
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| 12:25 | Lunch | |
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| Session Chair: Mark H. Overmars | ||
| 02:15 | Invited Talk:
Leonidas Guibas, Stanford University
Data Structures for Mobile Data |
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| 03:05 |
The Polygon Exploration Problem: A New Strategy and
a New Analysis Technique
Frank Hoffmann, Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, and Klaus Kriegel |
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| 03:30 | Coffee break | |
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| Session Chair: Daniela Rus | ||
| 04:00 |
The Computational Power of Frictional Mechanical Systems
John Reif and Zheng Sun |
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| 04:25 |
Issues in Nonprehensile Manipulation
Kevin M. Lynch |
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| 04:50 |
Local Observability of Rolling
Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann |
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| 08:30 | |
Breakfast |
| Session Chair: John Canny | ||
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| 09:00 | Invited Talk:
Herbert Edelsbrunner,
University of Illinois
Geometry for Modeling Biomolecules | |
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| 09:50 |
Algorithms for Fence Design
Robert Paul Berretty, Mark H. Overmars, and A. Frank van der Stappen |
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| 10:15 |
Shape Tolerance in Feeding and Fixturing
Jingliang Chen, Ken Goldberg, Mark H. Overmars, Dan Halperin, Karl F. Böhringer, and Yan Zhuang |
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| 10:40 | Coffee break | |
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| Session Chair: Jean-Claude Latombe | ||
| 11:10 |
Towards Planning for Elastic Objects
Lydia E. Kavraki, Florent Lamiraux, and Christopher Holleman |
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| 11:35 |
Models and Algorithms for the Collision of Rigid and
Deformable Bodies
A. Joukhadar, A. Deguet and C. Laugier |
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| 12:00 |
Numerical Computation of Optimal Navigation Functions on a
Simplicial Complex
Steven M. LaValle |
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| 12:25 | Lunch | |
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| Session Chair: Matt Mason | ||
| 02:15 | Invited Talk:
Jocelyne Troccaz, Grenoble
Synergistic robots for surgery: the algorithmic view of this approach | |
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| 03:05 |
Fourier Methods on Groups: Applications in Robot Kinematics
and Motion Planning
A.B. Kyatkin and G.S. Chirikjian |
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| 03:30 |
The Self-reconfiguring Robotic Molecule
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, Marsette Vona, Craig McGray |
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| 03:55 | Closing Remarks | |
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| 04:15 | Barbecue Party (Sponsored by CITI, The Computer and Information Technology Institute at Rice.) | |
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