Colloquium Series
Robotics Engineering seminars are every Wednesday at noon throughout the academic year, unless otherwise stated. Check out the most up-to-date Colloquium Series schedule.
Spring 2024 Series
Next Talk:
Innovations in Surgery Using Soft & Continuum Robots
Speaker: Tayfun Efe Ertop
Research Assistant Professor at the Vanderbilt University
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Wednesday, Mar 27th 2024
🕰️Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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Previous Talks:
Enhancing Robot Perception for Robust Autonomy in Unstructured Environments
Speaker: Dr. Ekta Samani
Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Friday, Jan 26th 2024
🕰️Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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AI-Powered Robot Cognition Modeling for Trustworthy Humans-Robots Collaboration
Speaker: Prof. Rui Liu
Assistant Professor at Kent State University
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Wednesday, Jan 31st 2024
🕰️Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Dexterity: The Crucial Motion Intelligence for Future Robots
Speaker: Xianyi Cheng
Ph.D. Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Friday, Feb 02nd 2024
🕰️Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Human-Aware Aerial Collaborative Transportation and Manipulation of Payloads using Micro Quadrotors
Speaker: Dr. Guanrui Li
Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH420 and Zoom
📅 Date: Wednesday, Feb 07th 2024
🕰️Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Dexterous Decision-Making for Real-World Robotic Manipulation
Speaker: Rachel Holladay
Ph.D. Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH500 and Zoom
📅 Date: Wednesday, Feb 14th 2024
🕰️Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Infeasibility Proofs in Robot Planning
Speaker: Sihui Li
Ph.D. Candidate at Colorado School of Mines
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Friday, Feb 16th 2024
🕰️Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Robust Surgical Perception: Toward Autonomous Robotic Surgery
Speaker: Dr. Shan Lin
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California San Diego
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Friday, Feb 23rd 2024
🕰️Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Socially Assistive Robotics to Support Persons with Dementia in Conversational Engagement and Activities of Daily Living
Speaker: Fengpei (Fiona) Yuan
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Tennessee
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: UH520 and Zoom
📅 Date: Wednesday, Feb 28rd 2024
🕰️Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Distributed Inference for Robotic Perception and Planning in Unstructured Environments
Speaker: Jana Pavalsek
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan
🗎 Abstract
📌Location: Zoom
📅 Date: Friday, Mar 01st 2024
🕰️Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
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Previous RBE Colloquiums
Fall 2022 Series
Fall 2022 | ||||
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | |
08/31/2022 | Dr.Nitin Sanket | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | ||
09/07/2022 |
Dr. Andre Rosendo |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute | ||
09/14/2022 |
Robin Hall, Kehan Yang & Tess Meier | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
A sEMG Proportional Control for the Gripper of Patient Side Manipulator in da Vinci Surgical System |
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09/21/2022 |
Dr. Losey Dylan |
Virginia Tech |
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09/28/2022 | Dr. Alireza Ramezani | Northeastern University | Bat-inspired Dynamic Morphing Wing Flight Through Morphology and Control Design | |
10/05/2022 | Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald | Yale Univesity | Learning to Address Novel Situations Though Human-Robot Collaboration | |
10/12/2022 | Alex Galvan & Alex Chiluisa | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Spring 2022 Series
Spring 2022 | ||||
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | |
01/21/2022 | Dr. Heather Cu;bertson |
University of Southern California |
Using Data for Increased Realism with Haptic Devices and Modeling |
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01/28/2022 | Dr. Nitin Sanket |
University of Maryland |
Action-Perception Synergy: Bio-Inspired AI For Small Autonomous Robots |
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02/11/2022 |
Dr. Derya Aksaray |
University of Minnesota |
Reinforcement Learning for Dynamical Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications |
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02/21/2022 |
Dr. Andre Rosendo |
Shanghai Tech University |
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WIN 'Bridging the Gaps' Colloquium Series 02/25/2022 |
Mary Hayhoe |
University of Texas Austin |
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03/04/2022 |
Dr. Isuru Godage |
DePaul University |
Continuum robots: recent advances and future directions toward better human-robot collaboration |
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03/17/2022 |
Dr. Yayun Du |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Adaptive Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Design, Perception, & Control |
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WIN 'Bridging the Gaps' Colloquium Series 03/18/2022 |
Dr. He (Helen) Huang |
North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Restoring Motor Function of Individuals with Limb Loss via Bionic Prostheses |
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03/25/2022 |
Dr. Enrico Mingo Hoffman |
PAL Robotics |
Model-Based Optimization for Whole-Body Motion Planning & Control |
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04/01/2022 |
Dr. Matteo Laffranchi |
Rehab Technologies Lab |
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WIN 'Bridging the Gaps' Colloquium Series 04/08/2022 |
Dr. Holly Yanco |
University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
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04/15/2022 |
Dr. Cristian A. Linte |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
Fall 2021 Series
James Nichols Heald Research Award
Spring 2021 | ||||
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | |
Jan. 29, 2021 | Dr. Haichong (Kai) Zhang, Dr. Yihao Zheng, and Dr. Gregory Fischer | WPI | Robotics and COVID-19 | |
Feb. 5, 2021 | Dr. Rui Liu | Kent State University, Ohio | AI-Powered Cognition Modeling for Failure-Resilient Human-Robot Collaboration | |
Feb. 12, 2021 | Dr. Dan Sameoto | University of Alberta | From Soft Robotics to Morphing Matter: Applications for Advanced Multi-material 3D Printing | |
FORW-RD Thinking Seminar Series Feb. 19, 2021 |
Dr. Arash Ajoudani | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) | Anticipatory Control of Human-Robot Interation: Towards Enabling Flexible and Agile Work Practices | |
FORW-RD Thinking Seminar Series Mar. 5, 2021 |
Dr. Kris Dorsey | Picker Engineering Program, Smith College | Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Tunable, Soft Mechanical Sensors | |
WPI IEEE RAS Student Chapter presents Mar. 12, 2021 |
Gokul Narayanan Sathya Narayanan | WPI Alumni | Need for the Adoption of Industry 4.0 Technologies in the Age of Pandemic | |
Mar. 26, 2021 | Dr. Ryosuke Tsumura | WPI | Be Free from Limitations with Robotics Technology | |
WPI IEEE RAS Student Chapter presents Apr. 2, 2021 |
Dr. Adnan Munawar | John Hopkins University | A Framework for Surgical Robot Simulation |
Fall 2020 Series
Fall 2020 | ||||
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | |
Sept. 4, 2020 | Dr. Yihao Zheng | Mechanical Engineering, WPI |
Biomedical Manufacturing Innovation and Robotic Implementation |
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Sept. 11, 2020 | Dr. Markus Nemitz | Robotics Engineering, WPI | Robotic Materials: Merging the Worlds of Hard and Soft Robotics | |
Sept. 18, 2020 | Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas | Computer Science, University College London | ||
Sept. 25, 2020 | Mr. Roy Kornbluh | Robotics Laboratory, SRI International |
Active Materials for Robotics: What High Voltage Can Do for You |
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Oct. 2, 2020 |
The FORW-RD Thinking Seminar Series Presents: |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Claflin University | ||
Oct. 9, 2020 | Dr. Alessandra Sciutti | Cognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies (CONTACT) Unit, Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia | Cognitive Robotics for Human-Robot Interaction | |
Oct. 16, 2020 | Robotics Engineering Graduate Students | Research presentations | RBE PhD Students: Yinan Sun & Alex J. Chiluisa | |
Oct. 23, 2020 | Dr. Tichakom (Nok) Wongpiromsarn | Computer Science, Iowa State University |
Formal Methods for Control Synthesis of Autonomous Systems
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Oct. 30, 2020 | Dr. Heiko Hamann | University of Lubeck, Germany |
Minimize Surprise in Robots: An Innate Motivation for Collective Behavior |
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Nov. 6, 2020 | Dr. Vito Trianni | Italian National Research Council | ||
Nov. 13, 2020 | Dr. Angela Faragasso | University of Tokyo, Japan | ||
Nov. 20, 2020 | Dr. Cyrills Stachniss | University of Bonn |
With Agricultural Robots Towards Sustainable Crop Production |
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Dec. 4, 2020 | Dr. Dylan Shell | Texas A&M University | ||
Dec. 11, 2020 | Dr. Dave Seltz | RTI | ||
Spring 2020 Series
Spring 2020 | ||||
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | |
Jan. 17, 2020 |
Dr. Megan Chrobak | Boston Scientific | The Boston Scientific Approach to Competing with Robotics | |
Jan. 24, 2020 | Dr. Markus P. Nemitz | Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitesides Research Group at Harvard University | From Silicon to Silicone: Merging the Worlds of Hard and Soft Robotics | |
Jan. 31, 2020 | Dr. Xiangrui Zeng | Robotics Engineering, WPI | Data-Enhanced Automotive Intelligent Control and Active Route Planning | |
Feb. 7, 2020 | Lifeng Zhou | Virginia Tech | Resilient and Risk-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination | |
Feb. 10, 2020 | Dr. Paul Reverdy | Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona | Decision Making in Physical Contexts: From Human Supervisors to Autonomous Robots | |
Feb. 14, 2020 | Dr. Marko B. Popovic | Physics, Biomedical, and Robotics Engineering, WPI | Wearable, Bioinspired Robots, and Universal Manipulation | |
Feb. 21, 2020 | Mr. Kevin Harrington | Robotics Engineering, WPI | BowlerStudio: A Robotics Integrated Development Environment | |
Feb. 28, 2020 | Dr. Loris Fichera | Robotics Engineering, WPI | Combining robotics and machine intelligence to enable advanced treatment modalities in the head and neck | |
Mar. 6, 2020 | Dr. Akin Tatoglu | Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford |
Probabilistic Methodologies for Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization and Agile Motion Control |
Fall 2019 Series
Fall 2019 | ||||
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | |
Aug. 30, 2019 |
RBE Graduate Students |
Robotics Engineering, WPI |
What did I do this summer? |
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Sept. 6, 2019 |
Robotics Engineering, WPI |
Spoofing a positioning feedback system and other cruel tricks to play on students |
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Sept. 13, 2019 |
Joyce Sidopoulos |
MassRobotics |
Sensor Fusion Challenge Info Session |
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Sept. 20, 2019 |
Computer Science, Northeastern University |
Deictic action representations for robotic manipulation |
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Sept. 27, 2019 |
Dr. Ryosuke Tsumura |
Robotics Engineering, WPI |
A Role of Robotics Technology in Medical Applications |
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Oct. 4, 2019 |
Mechanical Engineering Department, Boston University |
Intelligent, Safe, and Dynamic Multiagent Systems |
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Nov. 1, 2019 |
Dr. Val Schmidt |
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, UNH |
Autonomous Vehicles for Ocean Mapping - A Decade of Experience |
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Nov. 8, 2019 |
Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University |
Abstraction in robotics |
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Nov. 15, 2019 |
Dr. Pierre E. Dupont |
Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
Building Medical Robots and Devices inside a Hospital |
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Nov. 22, 2019 |
California State University, Long Beach |
Human Movement Understanding for Intelligent Robots and Systems |
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Dec. 6, 2019 |
Dr. Daniel Flickinger |
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation |
Unique Challenges in VTOL Autonomy |
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Dec. 13, 2019 |
Jie Fang |
Mechanical Engineering, WPI |
Interactive Route-Planning and Mobile Sensing with a Team of Multiple Robotic Vehicles in an Unknown Environment |