Book of Abstracts: [pdf]

Description

The goal of this workshop, scheduled to be held before RSS on July 12-13th 2014 at UC Berkeley, is to bring together top level researchers in the areas of dynamics, control and robotics to find common themes in approaching the problem of dynamic locomotion.  The workshop will have ample time to facilitate discussion and interaction in order to find commonalities among the different approaches to the problem, and as a result, formulate novel approaches for identified open problems in the area of dynamic locomotion.

Intended Audience

The intended audience range from experts in the area of dynamics, control and robots to graduate students interested in these subjects.  The goal is to give representation from each of these areas with a view toward unification in order to address future advances in dynamic locomotion—with the specific objective of involving perspectives that are not always present in the robotics community.  In this light, student participation will be an essential factor since they will be the ones to pursue next generation ideas in dynamic locomotion.  

Important Dates

  • Extended Abstract (1 pg, 2 column) Submission Deadline:  May 15th 2014 (11:59 pm, EST).  [Extended Abstract Template]
  • Workshop:  July 13th 2014

Location

Confirmed Speakers

  • Aaron Ames                                   Texas A&M University
  • Katie Byl                                         Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
  • Pranav Bhousle                              Disney Research
  • Siyun Feng, Chris Atkeson              Carnegie Mellon University
  • Hartmut Geyer                               Carnegie Mellon University
  • Robert Gregg                                 Univ. of Texas at Dallas
  • Kaveh Hamid (Jessy Grizzle)            Univ. of Michigan
  • Jonathan Hurst                               Oregon State University
  • Aaron Johnson (Dan Koditschek)    Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • Scott Kuindersma (Russ Tedrake)    MIT
  • Katja Mombaur                                Ruprecht‐Karls‐Universitat Heidelberg
  • Ioannis Poulakakis                           Univ. of Delaware
  • Andre Seyfarth                               Technische Universitat Darmstadt
  • Anton Shiraev                                 Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Koushil Sreenath                             Carnegie Mellon University
  • Manoj Srinivasan                             Ohio State University
  • Emo Todorov                                   Univ. of Washington

Organizers

  • Aaron D. Ames, Texas A&M University
  • Koushil Sreenath, Carnegie Mellon University