Schedule

Half-day workshop, June 18th 2016 - in conjunction with RSS 2016, University of Michigan.

• 13:50 Welcome
  
  
• 14:00-14:50 Invited talk, "A Cognitive Architecture Approach to Robot Planning and Learning"
  
John E. Laird
University of Michigan


• 14:50-15:10 "Planning Non-Entangling Paths for Tethered Underwater Robots Using Simulated Annealing"
  
Seth McCammon and Geoff Hollinger
Oregon State University

• 15:10-15:30 "Robust Reinforcement Learning with Relevance Vector Machines"
  
Minwoo Lee and Charles Anderson
Colorado State University


• 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
  
  
• 16:00-16:20 "Path Planning Based on Closed-Form Characterization of Collision-Free Configuration-Spaces for Ellipsoidal Bodies, Obstacles, and Environments"
  
Yan Yan¹, Qianli Ma², and Gregory Chirikjian^2
1Amazon and ²Johns Hopkins University

• 16:20-16:40 "Learning the Problem-Optimum Map: Analysis and Application to Global Optimization in Robotics"
  
Kris Hauser
Duke University

• 16:40-17:00 "Experience-driven Predictive Control"
  
Vishnu Desaraju and Nathan Michael
Carnegie Mellon University

• 17:00-17:20 "The Impact of Approximate Methods on Local Learning in Motion Planning"
  
Diane Uwacu, Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna Thomas and Nancy Amato
Texas A&M University


• 17:20-17:30 Honors ceremony
  
• 17:30 Workshop adjourns