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SUMMARY:CAESAR Seminar: Howie Choset: "Toward Path Planning\, Control\, a
 nd Filtering for Novel Robot Systems"
CREATED:20061023T100000Z
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:My group's education and research interests straddle
  the border between computational theory and mechatronic engineering imp
 lementation: rigorous mathematical results enable engineering advancemen
 ts while the practical aspects of implementation drive theoretical deriv
 ation. Our research program centers on two foci: highly articulated syst
 ems and coverage tasks. These foci touch upon a number of fundamentals i
 n robotics\, including path planning\, gait generation\, SLAM\, and hybr
 id controls. This work is directly tied into urban search and rescue\, d
 e-mining\, auto-body painting\, inspection of wing structures\, and medi
 cal surgery. Recent work includes developing some new insights into clim
 bing with snake robots. Finally\, this talk will cover my education acti
 vities with a particular emphasis on an undergraduate LEGO-robotics cour
 se I designed and teach.BIOGRAPHY:Howie Choset is an Associate Professor
  of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University\, where he conducts research 
 in motion planning and design of serpentine mechanisms\, coverage path p
 lanning for de-mining and painting\, mobile robot sensor-based explorati
 on of unknown spaces\, and education with robotics. In 1997\, the Nation
 al Science Foundation awarded Choset its Career Award to develop motion 
 planning strategies for arbitrarily shaped objects. In 1999\, the Office
  of Naval Research started supporting Choset through its Young Investiga
 tor Program to develop strategies to search for land and sea mines. Rece
 ntly\, the MIT Technology Review elected Choset as one of its top 100 in
 novators in the world under 35. Choset directs the Undergraduate Robotic
 s Minor at Carnegie Mellon and teaches an overview course on Robotics th
 at uses series of custom-developed Lego Labs to complement the course wo
 rk. Professor Choset's students have won best paper awards at the RIA in
  1999 and ICRA in 2003. He was nominated for best papers at ICRA in 1997
  and IROS in 2003\, and won best paper at IEEE Bio Rob in 2006. Finally\
 , Choset is a member of an urban search and rescue response team using r
 obots with the Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue. Now\, he is 
 active in extending the mechanism design and path planning work to medic
 al mechatronics.
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LOCATION:141 Coordinated Science Laboratory
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER:japplequ@illinois.edu
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