Arrival Day: Tuesday March 7
7-8:30pm Welcome Reception at the Lone Star Court Hotel @ The Restaurant and Bar (Pitchers of lemonade and iced tea as well as brisket tacos and chicken southwest egg rolls will be provided. Guests can go to the bar to purchase alcoholic drinks if they desire).
Day 1: Wednesday March 8
Registration desk opens at 8am at Maggiano’s.
| Session Title | Time | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Welcome and Opening | ||
| Plenary Talk | 8:40 AM | The European Parliament’s Views on Robotics | Mady Delvaux European Parliament Member |
| Session W-AM-1: Space Robotics and Robots for Exploration | 9:30 AM | Robonaut 2 and You: Specifying and Executing Complex Operations | Baker, William; Kingston, Zachary; Moll, Mark; Badger, Julia; Kavraki, Lydia |
| 9:50 AM | Biosymtic Robotics: Adaptive Plasticity For Space Exploration | Ferraz, Marta | |
| 10:10 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| Session W-AM-2: Robo Ethics | 10:40 AM | Deep Sea Mining and Robotics: Assessing Legal, Societal and Ethical Implications | Brown, Cheryl |
| 11:00 AM | How to Form Robot Law a Case Study of Autonomous Cars | Yamane, Katsu; Smart, William; Forlizzi, Jodi | |
| Late Morning Talk | 11:20 AM | Future Environmental Impact of Robotics | Yi Guo |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (Provided by ARSO) | ||
| Session W-PM-1: Machine and Human Motor Learning | 1:00 PM | Addressing Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms: A Pilot Study on Emotion Recognition for Intelligent Systems | Howard, Ayanna; Zhang, Cha; Horvitz, Eric |
| 1:20 PM | The Effects of Musical Cues on Motor Learning Using a Robotic Wrist Rehabilitation System | English, Brittney; Howard, Ayanna | |
| Session W-PM-2: Human Movement Analysis and Intervention | 1:40 PM | Human Movement Understanding and Robotics | Demircan, Emel |
| 2:10 PM | An Infant Smart-Mobile System to Encourage Kicking Movements in Infants At-Risk of Cerebral Palsy | Bryant, De'Aira; Boyd, Janelle; Harris, Jgenisius; Smith, Michelle; García-Vergara, Sergio; Chen, Yu-ping; Howard, Ayanna | |
| 2:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| Session W-PM-3: Robotic Manipulation for Novel Environments | 3:00 PM | Pressure Ulcer Prevention Using Soft, Non-Grasp Manipulation in a Forcebed | Bowling, Alan |
| 3:20 PM | Operator Training for Preferred Manipulator Trajectories in a Glovebox | Sharp, Andrew; Horn, Matthew; Pryor, Mitchell | |
| Session W-PM-4: Robot Design | 3:40 PM | Design of a cost-efficient, double curvature display for robots | Vazhapilli Sureshbabu, Anand; Maggiali, Marco; Metta, Giorgio; Parmiggiani, Alberto |
| 4:00 PM | A User-Centric Feedback Device for Powered Wheelchairs Comprising a Wearable Skin Stretch Device and a Haptic Joystick | Kumar, Namita; Yoon, Han; Hur, Pilwon | |
| 4:20 PM | An Affordable Open-Source Multifunctional Upper-Limb Prosthesis with Intrinsic Actuation | Fajardo, Julio; Ferman, Victor; Lemus, Ali A.; Rohmer, Eric | |
| End of Day Talk | 4:40 PM | The Future Social Impact of NASA JSC Human-Robot Exploration Program | Kimberly Hambuchen |
| 5:20 PM | End of Day |
Day 2: Thursday March 9
Registration desk opens at 8am at Maggiano’s.
| 8:30 AM | Meet Up | ||
| Plenary Talk | 8:40 AM | The Future of Work in a Robot Economy | Alan Manning Professor of labour economics London School of Economics |
| Session T-AM-1: Locomotion Analysis and Estimation of the Human Center of Mass | 9:30 AM | Quadrupedal locomotion in the real world: how do small mammals adjust their limb kinematics in response to variation in substrate type | Liza Shapiro |
| 9:50 AM | Towards Understanding Visually Guided Locomotion over Complex and Rough Terrain: A Phase-Space Planning Method | Zhao, Ye; Matthis, Jonathan Samir; Barton, Sean; Sentis, Luis | |
| 10:10 AM | Estimating the Ambulatory Center of Mass during Load Carriage using a Geometric Approach | Barrios, Luenin; Shen, Wei-Min | |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| Session T-AM-2: Robot Design II | 11:00 AM | Developing Semi-Autonomous Humanoid Robots that Perform Various Composite Tasks via a Task Sequencer and Dynamics Simulator | Nakaoka, Shinichiro; Cisneros Limon, Rafael; Morisawa, Mitsuharu; Sakaguchi, Takeshi; Kaneko, Kenji; Kajita, Shuuji; Kanehiro, Fumio |
| 11:20 | Structure Design and Analysis of Compliant Human-Machine Interface Mechanism for Exoskeletons | Chen, Zailiang; Zhu, Qihuan; Li, Juan; Li, Weida; Cai, Xiaowei; Zhang, Xiao | |
| Late Morning Talk | 11:40 AM | Future of Consumer Robotics | Paul Oh |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch (Provide by ARSO) | ||
| Session T-PM-1: Autonomous Robotic Systems I | 1:20 PM | Getting the Shot: Socially-Aware Viewpoints for Autonomously Observing Tasks | Allevato, Adam; Sharp, Andrew; Pryor, Mitchell |
| 1:40 PM | Temporally Static Environment Coverage with Offline Planning Techniques | Pitsch, Meredith; Pryor, Mitchell | |
| 2:00 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| Session T-PM-2: Biorobotics | 2:30 PM | Design and test of biologically inspired multi-fiber Hydro Muscle actuated ankle | Bowers, Matthew; Harmalkar, Chinmay; Agrawal, Ankur; Kashyap, Abhishek; Tai, Jonathan; Popovic, Marko |
| 2:50 PM | Proportional Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Control Using Multi-Regression Model Estimator with Pattern Classifier Selector | Arafa, Mostafa; Awad, Mohammed; Tolbah, Farid | |
| 3:10 PM | Break | ||
| Session T-PM-3: Autonomous Robotic Systems II | 3:40 PM | Semi autonomous Dual-Arm Mobile Manipulator System with Intuitive Supervisory User Interfaces | Sharp, Andrew; Kruusamäe, Karl; Ebersole, Benjamin; Pryor, Mitchell |
| 4:00 PM | Autonomous vision-guided bi-manual grasping and manipulation | Rastegarpanah, Alireza; Marturi, Naresh; Bekiroglu, Yasemin; Stolkin, Rustam | |
| End of Day Talk | 4:20 PM | Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 | Peter Stone |
| 5:00 PM | End of Technical Presentations |
Day 3: Friday March 10
Registration desk opens at 8am at Maggiano’s.
| Plenary Panel | 8:30 AM | The Future of Robotics and Its Global Impacts | Sabine Hauert: Bristol SWARM Robotics. Alan Manning: London School of Economics. Mady Delvaux: European Parliament. Ayanna Howard: Moderator Gatech. |
| Robotics Vision Talk | 9:20 AM | Future Trends in Robotics | Oussama Khatib |
| Social Impacts Talk | 10:00 AM | Ethical Considerations for Prioritizing Human Well-Being with AI | Kay Firth Butterfield |
| Transformative Talk | 10:40 AM | Androids and our Future Society | Hiroshi Ishiguro |
| 11:20 AM | Announcement ARSO 2018 | Kazuhiito Yokoi | |
| 11:30 AM | Lunch (Provide by ARSO) | ||
| 12:00 PM | End of Workshop | ||
| Rest of Day Option 1 | Robotic Tours at The University of Texas at Austin | ||
| Rest of Day Option 2 | Leisure Time to Attend SXSW 2017 The South by Southwest Interactive Festival |
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