Humanoids 2004 Program

11/11 Thursday

9:00-9:25
Building an Autonomous Humanoid Tool User
William Bluethmann, Robert Ambrose, Myron Diftler, Eric Huber, Andy Fagg,
Michael Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Roderic Grupen, Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew
Brooks, Andrea Lockerd, R. Alan Peters II, O. Chad Jenkins, Maja Mataric,
Magdalena Bugajska

9:25-9:50
Development of Humanoid Robot Platform KHR-2 (KAIST Humanoid Robot - 2)
Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Seo-Wook Park, Jun-Ho Oh

9:50-10:15
Series Damper Actuator: A Novel Force/Torque Control Actuator
Chee-Meng Chew; Geok-Soon Hong; Wei Zhou

10:15-10:45: coffee break

10:45-11:10
Reaching through Learned Forward Model
Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati

11:10-11:35
Statistical Manipulation Learning of Unknown Objects by a Multi-Fingered Robot Hand
Ryo Fukano, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Takumi Kobayashi, Takuya Otani, Nobuyuki Otsu

11:35-12:00
Explorations In Engagement For Humans And Robots
Candace Sidner, Christopher Lee, Cory D. Kidd, and Neal Lesh

12:00-12:25
A Way Out of Dead End Situations in Dialogue Systems for Human-Robot Interaction
Hartwig Holzapfel, Petra Gieselmann

12:25-14:00: lunch

14:00-15:15 invited talk

The Biological Basis for Consciousness: Possible Implications for
Machine Consciousness
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology

15:15-15:45: coffee break

15:45-16:10
Prioritized Multi-Objective Dynamics And Control Of Robots In Human Environments
Luis Sentis and Oussama Khatib

16:10-16:35
Object Recognition from Multiple Percepts
Artur M. Arsenio

16:35-17:00
Human-Humanoid Interaction:Is A Humanoid Robot Perceived As A Human?
Erhan Oztop, Thierry Chaminade, David W. Franklin

17:00-17:25
Working Collaboratively With Humanoid Robots
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew Brooks, David Chilongo, Jesse Gray, Guy Hoffman, Cory
Kidd, Hans Lee, Jeff Lieberman, and Andrea Lockerd

17:25-18:30: break

18:30-20:30: Poster session with food buffet



11/12 Friday

9:00-9:25
Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-Time Reasoning in Complex Environments
Mike Stilman and James Kuffner

9:25-9:50
A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Navigation
Joel Chestnutt and James Kuffner

9:50-10:15
An Experimental Investigation of Robotic Spacewalking
Fredrik Rehnmark, William Bluethmann, Ivan Spain, Ken Alder, Michael Goza, Robert O. Ambrose

10:15-10:40
A Framework for Remote Execution of Whole Body Motions for Humanoid Robots
Neo Ee Sian, Kazuhito Yokoi, Shuuji Kajita and Kazuo Tanie

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-12:15: invited talk

Biomimetic Sensorimotor Control for Paralyzed Patients and Robots
Gerald Loeb, University of Southern California

12:15-14:00: lunch

14:00-14:25
Humanoid Trajectory Generation: An Iterative Approach Based On Movement And
Angular Momentum Criteria
Nirut Naksuk, Yongguo Mei and C. S. George Lee

14:25-15:50
Sensor-based Biped Gait Generation Scheme For Humanoid -Implementation And
Evaluation-
Kengo Toda, Mizuki Sagara and Ken Tomiyama

15:50-15:15
Passive Dynamic Autonomous Control of Bipedal Walking
Masahiro Doi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda

15:15-15:45: coffee break

15:45-16:10
Three additions to passive dynamic walking; actuation, an upper body, and 3D
stability
M. Wisse

16:10-16:35
Momentum Compensation for the Fast Dynamic Walk of Humanoids based on the Pelvic
Rotation of Contact Sport Athletes
Jun Ueda, Kenji Shirae, Yoshio Matsumoto, Shingo Oda, Tsukasa Ogasawara

16:35-17:00
Whole-body Cooperative Balanced Motion Generation for Reaching
Koichi Nishiwaki, Mamoru Kuga, Satoshi Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue

17:00-17:25
A Mobile Autonomous Humanoid Assistant
M. A. Diftler, R. O. Ambrose, K. S. Tyree, S. M. Goza, E.L. Huber

17:25-18:30: break

18:30-20:30: Poster session with food buffet