Friday Aug. 19, 2011 – Lecture Day 2 ELEC 5530 / 6530

Outline:

 Demo of CRR lab robot by Jarred Beck and Brian Pappas  Current events – ASEE First Bell and LinkedIn Today

o Study: Teaching Makes Graduate Students Better Researchers. http://chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Be-a-Good-Researcher-/128753

o IBM: Two Prototype Chips Mimic Human Brain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747

o Motorized Artificial Leg Able To Move Like A Real Leg. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/08/bionic-leg/

o News: Southern Veganism - Inside Higher Ed (PETA tie-in)

Others from class ?

 Assignment (due Wed.): - see instructions on Blackboard o Form team (1 – 3 people) o Write a story o Build a model o  Introduce textbook authors o Roland Siegwart- http://www.mavt.ethz.ch/people/professoren/rolandsi/index

professor for autonomous systems at ETH Zurich since July 2006 (Mechanical Engineering)

Autonomous Systems Lab (Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems)

Distinguished Lecturer (2006/07) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences

Interests: personal and service robots, planetary exploration robots, autonomous micro‐aircrafts and driver assistant systems

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 1983 and his Doctoral Degree in 1989 from ETH Zurich. He spent than one year as postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Back in Switzerland, he worked from 1991 to 1996 part time as R&D director at MECOS Traxler AG and as lecturer and deputy head at the Institute of Robotics, ETH Zürich. In 1996 he was appointed as professor for autonomous microsystems and robots at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he served among others as member of the direction of the School of Engineering (2002‐ 06) and funding chairman of the Space Center EPFL

A note about ETH Zurich:

ETH Zurich was founded in 1855 as Federal Polytechnical School

Nobel Prize Laureates of ETH Zurich 1901 Physics Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen

1913 Chemistry Alfred Werner

1915 Chemistry Richard Willstätter

1918 Chemistry Fritz Haber

1920 Physics Charles‐Edouard Guillaume

1921 Physics Albert Einstein

1936 Chemistry Peter Debye

1938 Chemistry Richard Kuhn

1939 Chemistry Leopold Ruzicka

1943 Physics Otto Stern

1945 Physics Wolfgang Pauli

1950 Medicine Tadeusz Reichstein

1952 Physics Felix Bloch

1953 Chemistry Hermann Staudinger

1975 Chemistry Vladimir Prelog 1978 Medicine Werner Arber

1986 Physics Heinrich Rohrer

Georg Bednorz/ 1987 Physics Alexander Müller

1991 Chemistry Richard Ernst

2002 Chemistry Kurt Wüthrich

Facts and figures at a glance 2010 2009

Students 17,172 16,228 (headcount) (16,342) (15,378)

 Bachelor students 8,101 7,628

 Master students 4,235 3,701

 Doctoral students 3,521 3,396

 Percentage foreigners 34.9 33.2

 Percentage women 30.9 30.6  Graduations 3,382 3,410

Professorships (full‐time equivalents) 413 388

Staff (full‐time equivalents) 9,809 (7,284) 9,591 (7,111

 Illah Nourbakhsh‐ o Professor of Robotics The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/

“For more than ten years I have been exploring human-robot interaction with the aim of creating rich, effective and satisfying interactions between humans and robots.”

Three key questions govern my inquiry into human-robot collaboration:

 What enabling competencies in the areas of social perception and control are required for applicability of the resulting models?  What principles of robot morphology and robot behavior design have broad applicability to the design of interaction systems?  Can a principled interaction evaluation methodology enable us to implement complete, feedback-driven design life cycles for interaction systems?

One research focus has been to develop embedded solutions to the problem of semantic interpretation of events using visual sensing.

Another focus has been robot navigation because it is an important prerequisite to many forms of social interaction when the robot shares the human physical space. For example visual-topological navigation and hybrid metric-topological models aim to provide navigation competency with a minimum of computational and memory demands. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the human-robot collaboration problem, integrative research must bring robotics together with other fields that model human cognition and social behavior. I have joined and extended models of interaction and evaluation methodology from Human Factors, HCI and Cognitive Psychology, outstanding complements to robotics since these fields already consider human relationships to physical embodiments and consider human behavioral change over time.

Ethics and Robotics

Robotics 16‐899E, Carnegie Mellon University

 Davide Scaramuzza –

My research area is field robotics for ground and flying robots with particular focus on perception and computer vision. My research topics are:

 Vision for micro aerial vehicles  Visual odometry  3D mapping in urban environments from outdoor ground vehicles  Camera modelling and calibration  Robust feature matching for place recognition and robot navigation  Sensor fusion

Outline of the book: Autonomous Mobile Robots

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