Thursday, October 17, 2002

(All presentations take place in Sitterson Hall, Lecture Room 014)

 

 

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.: INTRODUCTION

 

Opening by Ming Lin & Dinesh Manocha (UNC-CH)

 

Welcome by ARO Program Manger, Dr. Michael Coyle (ARO);

Chair of Computer Science Department, Prof. Steve Weiss (UNC-CH); and Vice Provost of Research, Dr. Tony Waldrop (UNC-CH).

 

 

9:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.: VR & IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES (Chair: D. Manocha)

 

9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

What we've learned about Presence in Virtual Environments

by Fred Brooks (UNC)

 

9:45 a.m. - 10:10 p.m.

Locomotion Interfaces for Virtual Environments

by John Hollerbach (UTAH)

 

 

10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.: BREAK

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

 

 

10:40 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.: ACQUISITION OF REAL-WORLD (Chair: M. Swinson)

 

10:40 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.

View-Registration for 3-D Model Generation from Sensor Data

by Martial Hebert (CMU)

 

11:05 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

HARMONIC COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY: the geometry of visual space-time

by Yiannis Aloimonos (UMD)

 

11:30 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.

Tele-Immersion for Advanced Surgical Training and for Assistance

During Surgical Procedures

by Henry Fuchs (UNC-CH)

 

 

12:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.:  LUNCHEON

(Sitterson Hall Lower Areas & Carolina Inn North Parlor)

 

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.: ROBOTICS AND CONTROL (Chair: J. Hodgins)

 

1:30 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.

Programming Machines That Work

by Dan Koditschek (UMICH)

 

1:55 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.

Control and Coordination for a Network of Ground and Aerial Robots

by Vijay Kumar (UPENN)

 

2:20 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Moving by Thinking: Progress towards a Cortical Neural Prosthetic

by Joel Burdick (CALTECH)

 

 

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.:  BREAK

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

 

 

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.:  Federal Interests in VR & Robotics (Chair: A. Lastra)

 

Panel members are John Grills (RDECOM), Kevin Lyons (NIST), Angus Rupert (NAMRL), and Paul Tanenbaum (ARL).

 

 

4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: MODELING & SIMULATION (Chair: D. Pai)

 

4:15 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.

Representing and Parameterizing Embodied Agent Behaviors

by Norman Badler (UPENN)

 

4:40 p.m. – 5:05 p.m.

Digital Geometry Processing

by Peter Schroder (CALTECH)

 

5:05 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Engineering Design and Virtual Environments

by Elaine Cohen (UTAH)

 

 

5:45 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: DINNER RECEPTION & UNC RESEARCH DEMO

(Sitterson Hall Lower & Upper Lobby Areas, and Graphics Lab on the 2nd Floor) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, October 18, 2002

(All presentations take place in Sitterson Hall, Lecture Room 014)

 

 

8:30 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.:  COMPLEX SYSTEMS (Chair: D. Manocha)

 

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Control of Networks of Unmanned Vehicles

by Shankar Sastry (BERKELEY)

 

9:15 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

            Mobile Augmented Reality Systems

by Steve Feiner (COLUMBIA)

 

9:40 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.

Building Robust Systems out of Non-Robust Components

            by Pradeep Khosla (CMU)

 

 

10:05 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.:  BREAK

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

 

 

10:35 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.:  SPECIAL PRESENTATION (Introduction: M. Lin)

Army Research Office:  Basic Research for Army Transformation

by Jim Chang (ARO/ARL)

                                                                   

 

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.:  MAN/MACHINE INTERACTION (Chair: J. Trinkle)

 

11:00 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.

Human-Robot Cooperation in Surgery

by Ken Salisbury (STANFORD)

 

11:25 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.

Interactive Display of Complex Environments

by Dinesh Manocha (UNC-CH)

 

11:50 a.m. – 12:15 a.m.

Finger Sculpting with Digital Clay

by Jarek Rossignac (GATECH)

 

 

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.: LUNCHEON

(Sitterson Hall Lower Lobby Area & Carolina Inn North Parlor)

 

1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.: FUNDING PROGRAMS FOR ROBOTICS (Chair: M. Lin)

 

Panel members are David Hislop (ARO), Michael Pazzani (NSF), Dylan Schmorrow (DARPA/ONR), and Wesley Snyder (ARO).

 

 

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.:  BREAK

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

 

 

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: FUNDING PROGRAMS FOR INFORMATION 

                                     TECHNOLOGIES (Chair: H. Fuchs)

 

Panel members are Kamal Abdali (NSF), Ward Page (DARPA), Larry Rosenblum (ONR/NRL), and Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen (ONR).

 

 

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: FEDERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS ON VR & ROBOTICS

                                     (Chair: Howie Choset)

 

Panel members are Grace Bechenek (TECOM), Phil Emmermann (ARL), and Jim Templeman (NRL).

 

 

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.:  HORS D'OEUVRE RECEPTION

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

(Sitterson Hall Lower & Upper Lobby Areas)

 

 

 

Saturday, October 19, 2002

(All presentations take place in Sitterson Hall, Lecture Room 014)

 

 

8:30 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.:  SERVICE TO DOD & SOCIETY (Chair: M. Lin)

 

8:30 a.m. -9:15 a.m.

Information Technology in Service to Society: Opportunities and Challenges

by Ruzena Bajczy (BERKELEY)

 

9:15 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.

Two Perspectives on Human-Centered Robotics

by Ronald Arkin (GATECH)

 

9:40 a.m. – 10:05a.m.

The MOVES Institute – from science fiction to your door

by Mike Zyda (NPS)

 

 

10:05 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.: BREAK

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

 

 

10:35 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.: FUNDING PROGRAMS FOR VE, GEOMETRIC

                                             COMPUTING & INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

         (Chair: D. Manocha)

 

Panel members are Michael Coyle (ARO), Robert Launer (ARO), Michael Macedonia (STRICOM), and John Staudhammer (NSF).

 

 

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.:  CLOSING

 

Closing by Acting Division Chief of Mathematics, Robert Launer (ARO)

Wrap up by M. Lin and D. Manocha (UNC-CH)

 

 

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: LUNCHEON

Poster Presentations & Live Demonstrations

(Sitterson Hall Lower & Upper Lobby Areas)

 

 

 

Contributed Poster Presentations & Live Demos

 

Virtual Environments & Computer Graphics

 

During Breaks & Lunch on Thursday, October 17, 2002

5:30pm - 7:30pm on Friday, October 18, 2002

During AM Break & Lunch on Saturday, October 19, 2002

 

Point-and-Shoot Model Acquisition

                        V. Popescu and E. Sacks

 

Creation of Augmented Virtual Environments by Dynamic Fusion of Imagery and 3D Models

                        S. You, U. Neumann, J. Hu, B. Jiang, and J. Lee                                              

 

Multisensory Human Experience: Measurement, Synthesis, and Interaction

                        D. K. Pai

 

Battlefield Information Integration and Visualization for Command (BIIVC)

                        P. Tinker and R. Azuma 

 

COTS Multiscreen Displays

                        J.  Jacobson, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara                                                          

 

Virtually Reality Collaborative Re-Design Environment

                        S. McMains, C. Sequin, and P. K. Wright

 

Directing Attention in Virtual Environments

                        S. Hughes, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara 

 

Interactive Control of Avatars Animated with Human Motion Data                                             

                        J. Lee, J. Chai, P. S. A. Reitsma, J. K. Hodgins, and N. S. Pollard

 

Mix-and-Match Motion: Animated Virtual Experiences

M. Gleicher and the UW Graphics Group     

 

Building Multiagent Behaviors from Observation

                        D. C. Brogan and Y. C. Loitiere

 

Simulation Culling and Level-of-Detail

                        S. Chenny                                                                                                       

 

Modelling Man Made Environments: Geometric and Appearance Based Techniques

                        J. Kosecka

                       

Haptic Guidance for Training Complex Skills in a Virtual Environment

                        F. Tendick

 

Intelligent Systems & Human Augmentation

 

During Breaks & Lunch on Friday, October 18, 2002

5:30pm - 7:30pm on Friday, October 18, 2002 and

During AM Break & Lunch on Saturday, October 19, 2002

 

Human Augmentation for Search and Rescue

                        V. Kumar, D. Rus, and S. Singh                                                                     

 

An Integrated Approach to Dexterity Enhancement in Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

            G. D. Hagar, A. M. Okamura, and R. H. Taylor

 

Human-Robot Interaction

                        J. E. Colgate, K. M. Lynch, and M. A. Peshkin                                             

 

Human-Robot Interaction Through a Distributed Virtual Environment

A. H. Fagg, S. Ou, T. R. Hedges, M. Brewer, M. Piantesdosi, P. Amstutz,

A. Hanson, Z. Zhu, R. Grupen, and E. Riseman                                                        

 

Self-replicating Robots for Monitoring and Surveillance

                        Z. Butler and D. Rus                                                                                       

 

On Accurate Modeling of Contact States in Real Time

                        J. Xiao                                                                                                            

 

GraspIt!: A Versatile Dynamic Simulator for Robotic Grasping

                        A. T. Miller and P. K. Allen

 

Multibody Dynamics with Friction: Time-Stepping and Applications

                        J.C. Trinkle                                                                                                    

 

Six-Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Interaction Using Incremental and Localized Computations

                        Y. J. Kim, M. A. Otaduy, M. C. Lin, and D. Manocha

 

Software Systems for Vision-Based Spatial Interaction

                        J. Corso, G. Ye, D. Burschka, and G. D. Hager

 

Real-Time Generation of Fast Trajectories for Highly Maneuverable Underactuated Mechanical Systems

                        K. M. Lynch                                                                                                                           

User-Centric Optimal Planning for Robots in Non-trivial Terrains

                        H. Choset                                                                                                       

 

Constraint-Based Motion Planning

                        M. Garber and M. C. Lin                                                                               

 

Path Planning for Spatial Closed Kinematic Chains with Spherical Joints

                        J. C. Trinkle and R. J. Milgram                                                                     

 

Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

                        J. Kuffner