Schedule

We encourage participants and presenters to engage in-depth discussions. So the 16 papers are orgnized into 4 groups and at the end of each group there is a discussion.

Group 1: DESIGN ISSUES

8:00-8:20 K. Stoy, A. Lyder, R.F.M. Garcia, and D. Christensen
Hierarchical Robots
[abstract]
8:20-8:40 Seung-kook Yun , Yeoreum Yoon, Daniela Rus
Self Assembly of Modular Manipulators with Active and Passive modules
[abstract]
8:40-9:00 Victor Zykov, Andrew Chan, and Hod Lipson
Molecubes: An Open-Source Modular Robotics Kit
[abstract]
9:00-9:20 Victor Zykov and Hod Lipson
Experiment Design for Stochastic Three-Dimensional Reconfiguration of Modular Robots
[abstract]
9:20-9:40 Discussion
 
9:40-10:00 Coffee break
 

Group 2: CONTROL ISSUES

10:00-10:20 Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita, Akiya Kamimura, Shigeru Kokaji, Takashi Hasuo, and Satoshi Murata
Square Tile Model for Self-reconfiguration by M-TRAN
[abstract]
10:20-10:40 Rehan OGrady, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo
SWARMORPH: Morphology Control with a Swarm of Self-Assembling Robots
[abstract]
10:40-11:00 Stanislav Funiak, Padmanabhan Pillai, and Jason Campbell
Internal Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles
[abstract]
11:00-11:20 R. Mockel, A. Sprowitz, J. Maye, M. Asadpour, A. J. Ijspeert
Adaptive Locomotion Control in Modular Robotics
[abstract]
11:20-11:40 Discussion
 
11:40-13:00 Lunch
 

Group 3: CONTROL ISSUES

13:00-13:20 Paul J. White and Mark Yim
Enhanced Decision Making for Self-Reconfigurable Robotics Using Collision Detection
[abstract]
13:20-13:40 Feili Hou, Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen
Remotely-Controlled Autonomous TricycleBot Locomotion via SuperBot
[abstract]
13:40-14:00 Harris C. H. Chiu, Mike Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen
Multifunctional SuperBot with Rolling Track Configuration
[abstract]
14:00-14:20 Jacob Everist, Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Wei-Min Shen
Modular Robot Climbers
[abstract]
14:20-14:40 Discussion
 
14:40-15:00 Coffee break
 

Group 4: GENERAL ISSUES

15:00-15:20 Justin Werfel and Radhika Nagpal
Towards a common comparison framework for global-to-local programming of self-assembling robotic systems
[abstract]
15:20-15:40 Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Michael De Rosa, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Padmanabhan Pillai, Seth Copen Goldstein, Jason Campbell
Declarative Programming for Modular Robots
[abstract]
15:40-16:00 Michael Philetus Weller, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Brian Kirby, Jason Campbell and Seth Copen Goldstein
Movement Primitives for an Orthogonal Prismatic Closed-Lattice-Constrained Self-Reconfiguring Module
[abstract]
16:00-16:20 Roderich Gro� and Marco Dorigo
Fifty Years of Self-Assembly Experimentation
[abstract]
16:20-16:40 Discussion

 

 

 


Questions? Email shen at isi.edu.