| Legged Locomotion Workshop Agenda | |||
| Start Time | Speaker | Topic | Institution |
| Wednesday | |||
| 18:00-21:00 | Workshop Reception - MIT Faculty Club (Hors d'oeuvres) | ||
| 50 Memorial Drive, 6th Floor (Sloan Building) | |||
| Thursday | Cambridge, MA 02138 | ||
| 7:00 | Breakfast | MIT Room NE43-518 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139 | |
| 7:15 | |||
| 7:30 | |||
| 7:45 | |||
| 8:00 | Randy Beer | Pattern Generation and Sensory Feedback in Evolved Model Neural Circuits | Case Western |
| 8:15 | |||
| 8:30 | Hillel Chiel | Biomechanics and Control of Muscular Hydrostatic Structures | Case Western |
| 8:45 | |||
| 9:00 | Roy Ritzmann | Kinematics and Muscle Activation of Cockroach Legs | Case Western |
| 9:15 | |||
| 9:30 | Roger Quinn | Biomechanics and Control of a Pneumatically Actuated Cockroach-Like Robot | Case Western |
| 9:45 | |||
| 10:00 | Sasha Zill | Sensory Feedback and Control of Cockroach Walking | Marshall |
| 10:15 | |||
| 10:30 | Ralph DiCaprio | Measuring Forces in an Insect Leg | Ohio University |
| 10:45 | |||
| 11:00 | Lunch at Bertucci's | ||
| 11:15 | |||
| 11:30 | |||
| 11:45 | |||
| 12:00 | |||
| 12:15 | |||
| 12:30 | |||
| 12:45 | |||
| 13:00 | Discussion | Case Western, Ohio University, Marshall Work | |
| 13:15 | |||
| 13:30 | Bob Full | Dynamics of Legged Polypedal Locomotion | UCB |
| 13:45 | |||
| 14:00 | Keller Autumn | Maneuverability of Legged Locomotors | UCB |
| 14:15 | Devin Jindrich | Stability of Hexapedal Locomotion | UCB |
| 14:30 | Anna Ahn | Integration of Musculo-Skeletal Actuators | UCB |
| 14:45 | Marlene Martinez | Hydrodynamics of Legged Aquatic Locomotion | UCB |
| 15:00 | Discussion | UCB Work | UCB |
| 15:15 | |||
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:45 | Helen Greiner | Autonomous Underwater Robots | ISR |
| 16:00 | Chi Won | Ariel System Overview | ISR |
| 16:15 | Colin Angle | Holonomic Walking Mechanisms | ISR |
| 16:30 | Matt Arnold | Walking Robot Technology | K2T |
| 16:45 | TBA | ||
| 17:00 | Narendra Ahuja | Omnifocused Panaramic/Range Images for Legged Robots | Illinois |
| 17:15 | |||
| 17:30 | Tony Lewis | Visuomotor Integration: What's the buzz about bees? | Illinois |
| 17:45 | |||
| 18:00 | Discussion | ISR, K2T, Illinois Work | |
| 18:15 | |||
| 18:30 | Bus to Harbor Cruise | Bus will leave from 545 Technology Sq. (NE43) promptly at 6:30pm. | |
| 18:45 | |||
| 19:00 | Harbor Cruise | ||
| 19:15 | Appetizers | ||
| 19:30 | |||
| 19:45 | Dinner on Boat | ||
| 20:00 | |||
| 20:15 | |||
| 20:30 | |||
| 20:45 | |||
| 21:00 | |||
| 21:15 | |||
| 21:30 | |||
| 21:45 | |||
| 22:00 | Bus from Harbor Cruise | ||
| 22:15 | |||
| Friday | |||
| 7:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 7:45 | |||
| 8:00 | |||
| 8:15 | |||
| 8:30 | George Bekey | Static Stability in Slow Quadruped Locomotion | USC |
| 8:45 | |||
| 9:00 | Guarav Sukhatme | MENO: A Statically Stable Slow Quadruped | USC |
| 9:15 | Joel Hoff | A Cerebellar Approach to Adaptive Locomotion for Legged Robots | USC |
| 9:30 | Discussion | USC Work | |
| 9:45 | |||
| 10:00 | Emilio Bizzi | Modular Organization of the Vertebrate Spinal Cord | MIT BCS |
| 10:15 | |||
| 10:30 | Philippe Saltiel | Spinal Cord Rhythmic Activity | MIT BCS |
| 10:45 | Neville Hogan | Temporal Primitives in arm movement | MIT Mech. E. |
| 11:00 | |||
| 11:15 | Joseph Doeringer | Movement Intermittency persists without vision | MIT Mech. E. |
| 11:30 | Discussion | USC, MIT BCS, MIT Mech E. Work | |
| 11:45 | |||
| 12:00 | NE43-518 Lunch | ||
| 12:15 | |||
| 12:30 | |||
| 12:45 | Benny Hochner | The Octopus Arm as a Model System for Motor Control of a Flexible Arm | Hebrew University |
| 13:00 | |||
| 13:15 | Tamar Flash | Kinematic Study | Weizmann Institute |
| 13:30 | |||
| 13:45 | Yoram Gutfreund | Physiological Study | Hebrew University |
| 14:00 | Ranit Aharonov | Theoretical Study | Hebrew University |
| 14:15 | Discussion | Hebrew University work | |
| 14:30 | |||
| 14:45 | Gill Pratt | An Overview of MIT Leg Lab Research | MIT Leg Lab |
| 15:00 | Jerry Pratt | Virtual Model Control of Spring Flamingo | MIT Leg Lab |
| 15:15 | Daniel Paluska | Let there be Luxo - a real 2 DOF hopper | MIT Leg Lab |
| 15:30 | David Robinson | Successful Control of Transients in Blind Walking | MIT Leg Lab |
| 15:45 | Peter Dilworth | Recent Development of Trudy - an autonomous bipedal robot modeled after the Troodon Dinosaur | MIT Leg Lab |
| 16:00 | Rob Ringrose | Passive Dynamic Running | MIT Leg Lab |
| 16:15 | Andrew Allen | The Blob II - an autonomous shape-changing robot | MIT Leg Lab |
| 16:30 | John Hu | Magnebots - wireless MEMS robots energized by a magnetic field | MIT Leg Lab |
| 16:45 | Discussion | MIT Leglab Work | |
| 17:00 | |||
| 17:15 | MIT Robot Lab Tour | ||
| 17:30 | |||
| 17:45 | |||
| 18:00 | |||
| 18:15 | |||
| 18:30 | |||
| 18:45 | |||
| 19:00 | MIT Leglab Apres-Workshop | ||
| 19:15 | |||
| 19:30 | |||
| 19:45 | |||
| 20:00 | |||
| 20:15 | |||
| 20:30 | |||
| 20:45 | |||
| 21:00 | |||
| 21:15 | |||
| 21:30 | |||
| 21:45 |