Spring 2011 Meeting, University of Pennsylvania
The GRASP Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania hosted the Spring 2011 meeting for the Safety, Security, and Rescue Research Center in Levine Hall, room 307, on April 28-29, 2011.
A printable version of the agenda may be found here.
The schedule of events for the spring meeting was:
Thursday April 28 2011
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Welcome (Vijay Kumar, Deputy Dean; Tom Fitzsimmons, CTT UPenn) and
Introductions
8:45-9:45 Presentation by Program Directors (Alex Schwartzkopf, Rita
Rodriguez)
9:45-10:15 Center Evaluation (Vida Scarpello)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Industry Talks
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-4:00 Reports on current projects
- The MAGIC2010 Robot Team
- 3_D Indoor Navigation
- On-the-fly winch based robots for USAR manipulation
- Progress on Structural Parsing of Indoor Scenes and Telerobotics
-> University of Denver - Fail-safe Testing of Critical Web Applications
- RealBed: The Design of a Real-Time Test Bed for Interacting Groups of Robots
- Security Testing of Robots
- Object Pose Estimation in 2D Images Using Spherical Harmonics
- Analysis of Scene Dynamics in Aerial Imagery
- A Comprehensive System for Bicycle and Pedestrian Counting
- Flexible teamwork in large scale disaster management
- Interactive Teleoperation Using Perceptual Guidance Principles
- Salient Image Regions for Modeling Intra Class Diversity
- Sparse Feature Descriptors for Fast Information Retrieval
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-6:00 Industry assessment / IAB meeting
6:30p Dinner, Penne Restaurant at the Inn at Penn, 3600 Sansom Street.
Friday April 29, 2011
8:30 Breakfast, Levine 307
9:00 - 11:00 Demonstrations in Levine 457
11:00 - 12:00 GRASP Colloquium, Thomas Henderson, NSF
12:00 - Pizza Lunch in Levine 4th floor
Adjourn