Detailed Program

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  Thursday, 31 May:

  

Welcoming Remarks

09:00AM – 09:15AM

 

Session 1A: Robot Kinematics I

Session Chair – Sabri Tosunoglu, FIU

09:15AM – 10:15AM

• Robot Arm Manipulator Control for SG5-UT, Hussain Sultan, Eric Schwartz, UF
• A Metric for Planar Displacements, Venkatesh Venkataramanujam, Pierre Larochelle, FIT
• Linkage-Based Prosthetic Fingertips: Stability Analysis, Issa A. Ramirez, Craig P. Lusk, USF, Murray E. Maitland, UW

 

Session 1B: Robot Kinematics II

Session Chair – Alexander Leonessa, UCF

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

• Kinematic Analysis of a Planar Tensegrity Mechanism, Jahan Bayat, Carl D. Crane III, UF
• Evaluating the Fault Tolerance of a Parallel Manipulator Based on Relative Manipulability Indices, Hyun Geun Yu and Rodney G. Roberts, FSU-FAMU
• Control of a 9-DoF Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm System, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv Dubey, USF

 

Robot Show Presentations

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

• Dancing with Technology: The Interplay of Form and Motion ( A performance by a group of dancers using robotic devices, including people with disabilities)
• Short 3-minute presentations and demos of various projects in the showcase

 

Lunch

12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

 

Plenary Session 1

01:00 PM – 02:00 PM

• Development of an Autonomous Vehicle System for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Event, Carl Crane, UF

  

Session 2A: Robot Design I

Session Chair – Pierre Larochelle, FIT

02:00 PM – 03:00 PM

• Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Microgripper Device, Jose A. Martinez, Roberto R. Panepucci, FIU
• Proposed Design of a Triped Robot, Daniel Kamerling, Pierre Larochelle, FIT
• A Double Claw Robotic End-Effector Design, Redwan Alqasemi, Sebastian Mahler, Rajiv Dubey, USF

 

Session 2B: Robot Design II

Session Chair – Redwan Alqasemi, USF

03:15 PM – 04:15 PM

• TYROL: Evolution of a 10-Axis Biped Robot, Vishnu Madadi, Sabri Tosunoglu, FIU
• Xanthus: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot, Adrian Arbide, Vishnu Madadi, Sabri Tosunoglu, FIU
• Implementation of a Prototype Hybrid Golf Cart, Max Saelzer, Roger Messenger, Ali Zilouchian and Amir Abtahi, FAU

 

Lab Tours*

04:30 PM – 06:30 PM

• Rehabilitation Robotics Lab
• NNRC lab
• Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue Lab

 

Conference Dinner

07:00 PM – 09:00 PM

  

  Friday, 1 June:

  

Session 3A: Robot Control/Sensors I

Session Chair – Carl Crane, UF

08:30 AM – 09:30 AM

• Using the Wave Variable Method for a Human-Machine Haptic Interface in the Presence of Time Delay, Marc Alise, Rodney G. Roberts, Daniel W. Repperger, FSU-FAMU
• Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Actuator Amplitude and Rate Saturation Constraints, Alexander Leonessa, Yannick Morel, UCF
• A Multithreaded Implementation of Assist Functions to Control a Virtual Reality Model of a 6-DoF Robot Arm for Rehabilitation Applications, Eduardo J. Veras, Ramya Swaminathan, Rajiv Dubey, USF

 

Session 3B: Robot Control/Sensors II

Session Chair – Alfredo Weitzenfeld, USF

09:45 AM – 10:45 AM

• Position Tracking Performance of a Redundant Teleoperation System, Mehmet Ismet Can Dede, Sabri Tosunoglu, FIU
• Multi Robot Systems: The EagleKnights/RoboBulls Small-Size League RoboCup Architecture, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, USF
• Determination of Impact Force and Crush Energy Using Abductive Networks, Oren Masory, FAU, Nicolas Putod, IFMA

 

Robot Show Presentations

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM

• Dancing with Technology: The Interplay of Form and Motion
• Short 3-minute presentations and demos of various projects in the showcase

 

Plenary Session 2

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Biologically-Inspired Robotics: Learning from Nature, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, USF

 

Awards and Closing

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM

 

Boxed Lunch

12:30 PM

 

 

* Lab tours are available for a limited number of attendees, please sign up at the registration desk when you arrive at the conference.