Program for NEMS 2009:
| Time | Speaker | Title | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Continental Breakfast | ||
| 9:30 | Mike Gennert and Grant McGimpsey | Welcome and Opening Words | |
| 9:40 | Nobuhiko Hata | Image Guided Robot Surgey Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard |
| 10:00 | Scott Kuindersma | Dexterous Mobility with the uBot-5 Mobile Manipulator | UMass-Amherst |
| 10:20 | Timothy Gifford | Teleroboticaly Negotiating Apetrues Utilizing Intentional Dynamics | U of Conn |
| 10:40 | Break | ||
| 11:00 | Matt Bell | Grasping Non-Stretchable Cloth Polygons | Dartmouth |
| 11:20 | Aggeliki Tsoli | Low-Dimensional Neural Subspaces for Reaching | Brown |
| 11:40 | Erin Rapacki | The Design of an Underactuated Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm to Open Door Knobs and Handles | UMass-Lowell |
| 12:00 | Lunch and Tours | ||
| 1:30 | Marek Vondrak | Physics-based Motion Tracking | Brown |
| 1:50 | Matei Ciocarlie | Data-Driven Grasping with Partial Sensor Data | Columbia U |
| 2:10 | Greg Cole | MRI Compatible Manipulator for Deep Brain Stimulation | WPI |
| 2:30 | Break | ||
| 2:50 | Hao Dang | Functional Analysis of Finger Contact Locations during Grasping | Columbia U |
| 3:10 | Steve Hart and Shichao Ou | Intrinsically Motivated Learning for Object Manipulation and Human Interaction | UMass-Amberst |
| 3:30 | Break | ||
| 3:50 | Dylan Glotzer and Jon Moran | Bending and Kissing: Computing Self-Contact Configerations of Planar Loops with Revolute Joints | Clark U |
| 4:10 | John Wason | Robust Vision-Guided Multi-Probe Microassembly | RPI |
| 4:30 | Kate Tsui | I Want That : Human-in-the-Loop Control of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotics Arm from Interface through Grasping | UMass-Lowell |
| 4:50 | Mike Gennert | Closing Remarks |