CIS 6930 Seminar in AI Robotics

-- Fall 2009

Schedule: Friday 10:45-11:35 am Location: ENB 337 Instructor: Yu Sun

Introduction:

Several professors in USF will be invited to give a talk about their research. Senior graduate students are encouraged to give a presentation as well. Students who enrolled for credits should choose one or more topics from the suggested topics and select a time lot to present. Please let the instructor know if you want to present other topics. Each presentation given by students would be less than 20 mins. There is a 5-minute discussion following each presentation. The instructor will provide students reading material to start with. Please discuss with the instructor before choosing a topic.

Suggested topics (tentative):

Topics	Presenter	Time
Robot-aided rehabilitation	Redwan Alqasemi	Sept. 29 (ENG 4)
Visual-servoing
Medical robotics	Kyle Reed	TBA
Bio-inspired robots	Luther Palmer	Oct. 29 (ENG 4)
Bio-inspired robot walking	Mayur Palankar	Oct. 30
Search and rescue	Mayur Palankar	Oct. 30
AI, machine learning, Fuzzy logic, expert system	Carlos Neninger	Nov. 6
Micro-nanorobotics	Vladimir Grupcev	Nov. 6
Industry robots	Anand Kumar	Nov. 13
Robot vision	Sridhar Godavarthy	Nov. 13
Motion and force control	Yun Lin	Nov. 20
Robot learning by demonstration	Caitrin Eaton	Nov. 20
Robot system architecture, RT-OS	Qi Hong Zhao	Dec. 4
Haptics and teleoperating	Karan Khokar	Dec. 4
SLAM
Calibration, model identification
Inverse kinematics -- geometric approach
Data fusion
Robot grasping
Robot simulation
Humanoid
Underwater robots
Aerial robots

Grading:

80% Presentation 20% Discussion