Program for 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments

Monday, October 21

Monday, October 21, 08:00 - 08:45

Registration

Monday, October 21, 09:00 - 11:05

1A - Special Session: Human Robot Interaction Sensing & Understanding

Considerations on Deploying a Model-based Safety System into Human-Robot Co-operation: Yi Shen and Gunther Reinhart (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Resume Navigation and Re-Localization of an Autonomous Mobile Robot After Being Kidnapped: Ren C. Luo, Keng-Cheng Yeh and Kuan H Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Tendon Transmission Efficiency of A Two-finger Haptic Glove: Zhou Ma and Pinhas Ben-Tzvi (The George Washington University, USA)
Robot Ontologies for Sensor- and Image-Guided Surgery: Tamás Haidegger (Obuda University & IEEE RAS, Hungary); Marcos Ennes Barreto (Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil); Paulo Gonçalves (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal); Maki K Habib (The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Veera Ragavan Sampath Kumar (Monash University Malaysia Campus, Malaysia); Howard Li (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Alberto Vaccarella (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Roberta Perrone (Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Italy); Edson Prestes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul & Informatics Institute, Brazil)
Real Time Human Motion Imitation of Anthropomorphic Dual Arm Robot Based on Cartesian Impedance Control: Ren C. Luo, Bo-Han Shih and Tsung-Wei Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Monday, October 21, 11:05 - 11:20

Coffee Break

Monday, October 21, 11:20 - 12:35

1B - Robot Design & Manipulation

Towards Mobile Manipulator Safety Standards: Jeremy Marvel and Roger Bostelman (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
Multi-Segment Continuum Robot Shape Estimation Using Passive Cable Displacement: William Rone (George Washington University, USA); Pinhas Ben-Tzvi (The George Washington University, USA)
An introduction of the Biomimetic hand testbed: Skeletal structure and actuation: Norbert Sárkány (Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Information Technology, Hungary); György Cserey (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary); Péter Szolgay (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary)

Monday, October 21, 12:35 - 13:15

Lunch

Monday, October 21, 13:15 - 15:45

1C - Robot Vision & Imaging

NIR-CAM -- Development of a near Infrared camera: Aravindhan Krishnan and Srikanth Saripalli (Arizona State University, USA)
Validating a Simulation of a Single Ray Based Laser Scanner Used in Mobile Robot Applications: Markus Emde (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Juergen Rossmann (Technical University of Aachen, Germany)
High-Speed and Accurate Laser Scan Matching Using Classified Features: Lei Shu, Hu Xu and May Huang (International Technological University, USA)
Catadioptric Omnidirectional Image Inpainting via a Multi-Scale Approach and Image Unwrapping: Daniel Paredes Zevallos and Paul Rodriguez (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru); Nicolas Ragot (Ecole Supérieure d'Ingenieurs en Genie Electrique, France)
A Supervised Training and Learning Method for Building Identification in Remotely Sensed Imaging: Jordan Tremblay-Gosselin (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada); Ana-Maria Cretu (Carleton University, Canada)
Automatic human brain MRI volumetric analysis technique using EM-algorithm: Mina Rafi Nazari (University of Ottawa, Canada); Yashwant Singh (Multimedia University, Malaysia)

Monday, October 21, 15:45 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Monday, October 21, 16:00 - 18:05

1D - Intelligent Sensing & New Sensor Techonologies

Adaptive control for lift-off effect of EMAT based on IF-THEN rules and ultrasound RMS value: Saul Orzua-Gonzalez (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional Unidad Saltillo, Mexico)
Bayesian Filtering to Improve the Dynamic Accuracy of Electromagnetic Tracking: Hasan Sen and Peter Kazanzides (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
A Literature Review of Sensor Ontologies for Manufacturing Applications: Craig Schlenoff (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA); Roger D. Eastman (Loyola University Maryland, USA); Tsai Hong Hong (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Connie Liu (Columbia University, USA); Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar)
A New Type of Highly Sensitive Strain Gage Based on Microstructured Magnetic Materials: Cristian Fosalau, Cristian Zet, Daniel Petrisor and Catalin Damian (Technical University of Iasi, Romania)
Simulator Based Study of Robot Alignment and Localization: Sinziana Indreica, Andrei Stancovici and Mihai V. Micea (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania); Vladimir Cretu (POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Romania); Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Monday, October 21, 19:00 - 21:00

Conference Dinner

Tuesday, October 22

Tuesday, October 22, 08:30 - 09:00

Registration

Tuesday, October 22, 09:00 - 11:05

2A - Collaborative Robotics & Distributed Sensing

A Practical Approach to Coverage Control For Multiple Mobile Robots With a Circular Sensing Range: Vatana An (Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division); Zhihua Qu (University of Central Florida, USA)
Instrumentation System for Ship Air wake Measurement: Anil Kumar (George Washington University, USA); Pinhas Ben-Tzvi (The George Washington University, USA); Murray Snyder and Wael Saab (George Washington University, USA)
An Efficient Framework for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Extended Sensor Networks for Pipeline Monitoring: Imad Jawhar (UAE University, United Arab Emirates); Nader Mohamed (Middleware Technologies Lab., Bahrain); Jameela Al-Jaroodi (Robert Morris University, USA); Sheng Zhang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Phase optimization for control/fusion applications in dynamically composed sensor networks: Sebastian Zug (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany); André Dietrich (Universität Magdeburg, Germany); Christoph Steup and Tino Brade (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany); Thomas Petig (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenborg, Sweden)
Auction-Based Node Selection of Optimal and Concurrent Responses for a Risk-Aware Robotic Sensor Network: Jamieson McCausland (University of Ottawa & Larus Technologies, Canada); Rami Abielmona and Rafael Falcon (Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada); Ana-Maria Cretu (Carleton University, Canada); Emil M. Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Tuesday, October 22, 11:05 - 11:20

Coffee Break

Tuesday, October 22, 11:20 - 12:20

Invited Speaker

Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta, Dept of Mechanical Engineering & Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, USA

Tuesday, October 22, 12:20 - 13:15

Lunch

Tuesday, October 22, 13:15 - 15:45

2B - Path Planning & Robot Navigation

A New Trajectory-Based Path Planning Approach for Differential Drive Vehicles: Cheng-Lung Lee (University of Detroit Mercy, USA); Mohan Krishnan (University of Detroit - Mercy, USA); Mark Paulik and Utayba Mohammad (University of Detroit Mercy, USA)
MetaBot: Automated and Dynamically Schedulable Robotic Behaviors in Retail Environments: Jon Francis (Carnegie Mellon University & Intel Labs, USA); Utsav Drolia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Kunal Mankodiya (University of Rhode Island, USA); Rolando Martins (University of Porto & Faculty of Sciences, Portugal); Rajeev Gandhi and Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Improving Visual SLAM Accuracy Through Deliberate Camera Oscillations: Mohamed Heshmat (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, E-JUST, Egypt); Mohamed Abdellatif (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Hossam Abbas (Assiut University, Egypt)
Proprioceptive Sensing for Autonomous Self-Righting on Unknown Sloped Planar Surfaces: Jason Collins (Motile Robotics Inc., USA); Chad Kessens (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Stephen Biggs (Motile Robotics Inc., USA)
Development of A Sensor-Based Approach for Local Minima Recovery in Unknown Environment: Danial Nakhaeinia (University of Ottawa, Canada); Sai Hong Tang (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia); Pierre Payeur (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Toward Multi-Stage Decoupled Visual SLAM System: Mohamed Merzban (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Mohamed Abdellatif (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Hossam Abbas (Assiut University, Egypt); Salvatore Sessa (Waseda University, Japan)

Tuesday, October 22, 15:45 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Tuesday, October 22, 16:00 - 17:30

GWU Robotic Labs Tour

Tompkins Hall of Engineering, 725 23rd Street N.W., 4th floor, Washington, DC

Wednesday, October 23

Wednesday, October 23, 08:30 - 09:00

Registration

Wednesday, October 23, 09:00 - 10:40

3A - Pose Estimation & Localization

6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Portable Navigation Aid for the Visually Impaired: Cang Ye, Amirhossein Tamjidi and Soonhac Hong (University of Arkansas Little Rock, USA)
Reliable and Efficient RFID-based Localization for Mobile Robot: Hui Zhang and Joseph Chen (Bradley University, USA); Kai Zhang (Caterpillar Inc., USA)
A novel approach for automated car body panel fitting: Markus Herrmann (UPT Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara & VMT Vision Machine Technique, Germany); Otto Marc (VMT Vision Machine Technique, Germany); Marius Otesteanu (Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Romania)
Measurement science for 6DOF object pose ground truth: Roger D. Eastman (Loyola University Maryland); Jeremy Marvel, Joseph Falco and Tsai Hong Hong (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

Wednesday, October 23, 10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Wednesday, October 23, 11:00 - 12:40

3B - Robot Control Systems

Development and Control of Self-Reconfigurable Open Kinematic Chain Robot Arms: Riyadh Al Saidi (University of Windsor, Canada)
Force Controlled Contour Following on Unknown Objects with an Industrial Robot: Alexander Winkler (Hochschule Mittweida, University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Jozef Suchý (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Application-oriented Joint Rate Minimization by Cell and Tool Optimization for an R6-Manipulator: Christian Reimund (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Karl Kleinmann, Alexander König and Alexandra Weigl-Seitz (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany)
Adaptive Sliding Mode Position Control of Electro-Hydraulic Servo System with Single-Rod Actuators: Lu Xinliang, Jia Shan, Zhou Jing and Xingsong Wang (Southeast University, P.R. China)

Wednesday, October 23, 12:40 - 13:00

Closing Remarks - Best Paper Awards