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 (TOC shown on overhead) .