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Spring 2011 Projects

Project Logistics and Details.

Projects: Awards, Personal Robotics, Aerial Robotics, Others.

Awards

Best project award.
 

Object Placement. Kevin Yang, Michael Lyons, Paul Kiernan. (more)

Best video award.
Runner-up for best project.

Box Manipulation with Adept Arm. Paul Heran Yang, Tiffany Low. In RSS workshop mobile manipulation, 2011.

Best demo award.
Runner-up for best project.

Learning and Reacting to Hand Signals. Garrett Bernstein, Nyk Lotocky, Dan Gallagher.

Most Outstanding idea.

Robotic Annoyance Detection. Samuel Sinensky, David Diner.

Runner-up, best video award.

fAce Crusher: The Evasive Action. Mevlana Gemici, Yuandong Zhuang.

Runner-up, best demo award.

Human Robot Collaboration using Micro-delegation. Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski. Demo in RSS workshop on RGBD cameras, 2011.

Personal Robotics

Robot Construction Worker. Alycia Gailey, Alex Slover.

Learning to Place New Objects. Marcus Lim. (Project webpage) In ICRA 2012.

Panopticon. Boiar Qin, Ningchuan Wan.

Honorable Mention.

3D Object Detection using Kinect. Tian Li, Mike Wilson, Prabhat Putchakayala.

 

Learning kinematic analogies.. Daniel Ly. Poster in RSS workshop on RGBD cameras, 2011. In GECCO 2012.

 

Automated Semantic Mapping of Environment. Dongsu Lee, Aperahama Parangi.

  • Activity Recognition.
    Jae Y. Sung, Colin Ponce. Also accepted in AAAI workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (AAAI-PAIR), 2011. An abdriged version accepted in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.
  • Kinect Based Grasping.
    Justin Kerekes, Katie Lee Meusling. (PDF)

Aerial Robots

Honorable Mention..

Moving Person Avoider. Yi Heng Lee, Sze Kiat Sim.

 

Flee the Building. Drew Hoelscher, Aaron Sarna, Michael Oleske.

 

Parrot Sentry Drone. Job Davis, Brian McGlade.

Person Tracker. Anthony Chang, Sheldon Xu.

Autonomous Quadrotor Flight for Search and Rescue.
Dale Cassidy.
  • Autonomous Object Search with the AR.Drone Quadrotor.
    Kritarth Jain, Hyundo Reiner. (PDF)
  • Towards Obstacle Detection, Tracking, and Navigation in Neuromorphic Hardware.
    Weixu Goh, Saurav Kumar, Ian Lenz. (no pdf)

Others

Autonomous Map Generation using Kinect. David Skiff.

Objects Transfer Between Humans and Robots. Benjamin Phillips, Benjamin Jaeger.
  • Optimally Energy-Efficient Bipedal Gaits on Varying Slopes.
    Nicolas Champagne-Williamson. (PDF)
  • Semantic Labelling of Indoor Office Spaces using RGB-D Images.
    Hema Swetha Koppula, Abhishek Anand. (abstract, no pdf). Also accepted in RSS workshop on RGB-D cameras, 2011. An abdridged version also in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011.
  • Discovering Objects' Kinematic Structures.
    Akram Helou. (abstract)
  • Modeling Environments through Kinematic Interactions.
    Shahrukh Mallick, Andrew Spielberg. (PDF)