Journal Club
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The Robotics Journal Club meets regularly to hear presentations or discuss papers that are of interest to the robotics research community at CSAIL. Everybody is welcome to join the club.
Contact: Daniela Rus or Nora Ayanian (nayanian at mit dot edu)
Mailing List: robotics-journal-club at csail dot mit dot edu subscribe
Spring 2013 Schedule
Spring 2013: Meetings are Wednesdays noon to 1pm.
Wed, Feb 20, 12:00pm
Presenter: Danny Soltero
Wed, Feb 13, 12:00pm
Presenter: Dan Feldman
Wed, Feb 6, 12:00pm
Presenter: Nora Ayanian
Fall 2012 Schedule
Fall 2012: Meetings are Wednesdays noon to 1pm.
Wed, Dec 12, 12:00pm
Presenter: Chris Amato
Wed, Dec 5, 12:00pm
Presenter: Andy Marchese
Wed, Nov 28, 12:00pm
Presenter: Yoav Sterman
Wed, Nov 21, 12:00pm
No meeting.
Wed, Nov 14, 12:00pm
Presenter: Ara Knaian
Topic: Experiences with Kickstarter.
Wed, Nov 7, 12:00pm
Presenter: Kyle Strabala
Wed, Oct 31, 12:00pm
Presenter: Toby Schneider, gobysoft
Topic: Toby will give a presentation about his work on underwater communication.
Wed, Oct 24, 12:00pm
Presenter: TBD
Wed, Oct 17, 12:00pm
Presenter: Dan Feldman
Wed, Oct 10, 12:00pm
Presenter: Dan Feldman
Wed, Oct 3, 12:00pm
Presenter: Danny Soltero
Wed, Sept 26, 12:00pm
Presenters: Stephanie Gil, Cynthia Sung
Old Schedules
Fall 2011
Meetings are on Wednesdays from noon to 1pm.
Wed, Oct 19, 12:00pm
Presenter: Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay
Wed, Oct 26, 12:00pm
Presenter: Sejoon Lim
Wed, Nov 2, 12:00pm
Presenter: Mikhail Volkov
Wed, Nov 9, 12:00pm
Presenter: Anqi Xu, McGill University
Wed, Nov 16, 12:00pm
NO JOURNAL CLUB
Wed, Nov 23, 12:00pm
Presenter: No Presentation, Thanksgiving Lunch
Wed, Nov 30, 12:00pm
Presenter: Andrew Sugaya and Danny Feldman
Wed, Dec 7, 12:00pm
Presenter: Andreas Breitenmoser
Spring 2010
This spring we are meeting on Tuesdays at 12:30 in room 32-397
Tues, March 30, 12:30pm
Presenter: Eddie Nikolova
Tues, Feb 09, 12:30pm
Presenter: Stephanie Gil
Paper:
S. V. Rakovic - Set Theoretic Methods in Model Predictive Control
- Nonlinear Model Predicitive Control pp 41-54 ,2009
Pdf Bibtex
Author : S. V. Rakovic
Title : Set Theoretic Methods in Model Predictive Control
In : Nonlinear Model Predicitive Control pp 41-54 -
Address :
Date : 2009
- In Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress ,2005
Pdf Bibtex
Author : S.V. Rakovic, D.Q. Mayne
Title : A Simple Tube Controller for Efficient Robust Model Predictive Control of Constrained Linear Discrete Time Systems Subject to bounded disturbances
In : In Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress -
Address :
Date : 2005
Fall 2009
This fall we are meeting intermittently on Wednesdays at 11:30am in room 32-397.
Wed, Nov 10, 11:30am
NO JOURNAL CLUB: MIT Holiday
Wed, Nov 17, 11:30am
Presenter: Mac Schwager
Paper:
J. Gillula, H. Huang, M. Vitus, C. Tomlin - Design of Guaranteed Safe Maneuvers Using Reachable Sets: Autonomous Quadrotor Aerobatics in Theory and Practice- In Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation , Ankorage, Alaska,2010
Pdf Bibtex
Author : J. Gillula, H. Huang, M. Vitus, C. Tomlin
Title : Design of Guaranteed Safe Maneuvers Using Reachable Sets: Autonomous Quadrotor Aerobatics in Theory and Practice
In : In Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation -
Address : Ankorage, Alaska
Date : 2010
Wed, Nov 25, 11:30am
Presenter: Stephen Smith and Marty Vona
Paper1:
Stephen Prajna, Antonis Papachristogoulou, Pablo Parrilo - Introducting SOSTOOLS: A general purpose sum of squares programming solver- In Proceedings of the IEEE CDC ,2002
Pdf Bibtex
Author : Stephen Prajna, Antonis Papachristogoulou, Pablo Parrilo
Title : Introducting SOSTOOLS: A general purpose sum of squares programming solver
In : In Proceedings of the IEEE CDC -
Address :
Date : 2002
Paper2:
Russ Tedrake - LQR-Trees: Feedback motion planning on sparse randomized trees- In Proceedings of Robotics Science and Systems V , Seattle, Washington,2009
Pdf Bibtex
Author : Russ Tedrake
Title : LQR-Trees: Feedback motion planning on sparse randomized trees
In : In Proceedings of Robotics Science and Systems V -
Address : Seattle, Washington
Date : 2009
Wed, May 6, 11:30am
Presenters: Mac Schwager
Topic: Mac will be giving a practice talk for ICRA.
Wed, April 29, 11:30am
Presenters: Sejoon Lim and Seungkook Yun
Topic: Sejoon and Seungkook will both be giving practice talks for ICRA.
Wed, April 22, 11:30am
Presenter: Iuliu Vasilescu
Papers:
B. Lavis, T. Furukawa, H. F. Durrant-Whyte - Dynamic Space Reconfiguration for Bayesian Search and Tracking with Moving Targets- Autonomous Robots 24(4):387-399,2008
Pdf Bibtex
Author : B. Lavis, T. Furukawa, H. F. Durrant-Whyte
Title : Dynamic Space Reconfiguration for Bayesian Search and Tracking with Moving Targets
In : Autonomous Robots -
Address :
Date : 2008
- In Proc. of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , Las Vegas, NV, October 2003
Pdf Bibtex
Author : F. Bourgault, T. Furukawa, H. F. Durrant-Whyte
Title : Coordinated Decentralized Search for a Lost Target in a Bayesian World
In : In Proc. of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems -
Address : Las Vegas, NV
Date : October 2003
Wed, April 15, 11:30am
Presenter: Seungkook Yun
Topic: Seungkook will be giving a practice presentation for his RQE starting at noon.
Wed, April 1, 11:30am
Presenter: Stephanie Gil
Paper:
M.Pavone, E.Frazzoli, F.Bullo - Distributed Algorithms for Equitable Partitioning Policies: Theory and Applications- In Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control , Cancun, Mexico,2008
Pdf Bibtex
Author : M.Pavone, E.Frazzoli, F.Bullo
Title : Distributed Algorithms for Equitable Partitioning Policies: Theory and Applications
In : In Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control -
Address : Cancun, Mexico
Date : 2008
Wed, Mar 18, 11:30am
Presenter: Sejoon Lim
Paper:
Baruch Awerbuch, Robert D. Kleinberg - Adaptive routing with end-to-end feedback: distributed learning and geometric approaches- STOC '04: Proceedings of the thirty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing pp. 45--53, New York, NY, USA,2004
Pdf Bibtex
Author : Baruch Awerbuch, Robert D. Kleinberg
Title : Adaptive routing with end-to-end feedback: distributed learning and geometric approaches
In : STOC '04: Proceedings of the thirty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing -
Address : New York, NY, USA
Date : 2004
Wed, Mar 11, 11:30am
Presenter: Brian Julian
Paper:
Paris Pennesi, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis - Solving Sensor Network Coverage Problems by Distributed Asynchronous Actor-Critic Methods- Proc. of 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , New Orleans, LA, December 2007
Pdf Bibtex
Author : Paris Pennesi, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
Title : Solving Sensor Network Coverage Problems by Distributed Asynchronous Actor-Critic Methods
In : Proc. of 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control -
Address : New Orleans, LA
Date : December 2007
Wed, Mar 4, 11:30am
Presenter: Seungkook Yun
Topic: Seungkook will be talking about his recent research results on distributed truss construction algorithms.
Wed, Feb 25, 11:30am
Presenter: Iuliu Vasilescu
Paper:
Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin - Near-optimal Observation Selection Using Submodular Functions- Proc. of 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , Vancouver, Canada, July 2007
Pdf Bibtex
Author : Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin
Title : Near-optimal Observation Selection Using Submodular Functions
In : Proc. of 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) -
Address : Vancouver, Canada
Date : July 2007
Wed, Feb 18, 11:30am
Presenter: Mac Schwager
Paper:
Stanislav Funiak, Carlos Guestrin, Mark Paskin, Rahul Sukthankar - Distributed Inference in Dynamical Systems- In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006) , Vancouver, Canada, December 2006
Pdf Bibtex
Author : Stanislav Funiak, Carlos Guestrin, Mark Paskin, Rahul Sukthankar
Title : Distributed Inference in Dynamical Systems
In : In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006) -
Address : Vancouver, Canada
Date : December 2006