WORKSHOP AGENDA
Thursday
November 14
8:00
– 8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30
- 10:00 Opening Session and Invited Talks
- Welcome
and Logistics (Silvano Colombano, NASA Ames)
- The Robosphere
Concept and Workshop Goals (Silvano Colombano, NASA Ames)
- A Survey of Space
Robotics (Liam Pedersen, QSS/NASA Ames; David Kortenkamp, Metrica; David
Wettergreen and Illah Nourbakhsh, CMU)
- The Robotic Rover
as Field Scientist: Lessons from Mission Simulation Field Testing of
Planetary Surface Rovers (Carol Stoker, NASA Ames)
10:00
- 10:30 Break
10:30
- 12:00 Distributed Autonomy – 1
- Organizational
Model for Cooperative and Sustaining Robotic Ecologies (Eric Matson
and Scott DeLoach, Kansas State University)
- Overview
of Design of Collectives (David Wolpert and Kagan Tumer, NASA Ames)
- Networked
Robotics Concepts for Space Robotics Systems (Gerard McKee, University
of Reading, UK; Paul Schenker, JPL; Duncan Baker, University of Reading,
UK)
12:00
- 1:00 Lunch
1:00
- 2:30 Autonomous Construction and Self Configuration – 1
- An Analysis
of Towing Repair Capabilities in a Team of Robots (Curt Bererton and
Pradeep Khosla, CMU)
- Autonomous
Repair for Distributed Space Robotics (Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Terry
Huntsberger, and Brett Kennedy, JPL; John M. Dolan and Pradeep K. Khosla,
CMU)
- Self-Replicating
Robots for Space Utilization (J. Suthakorn, Y. Zhou, and Greg Chirikjian,
Johns Hopkins University)
2:30
- 3:00 Break
3:00
- 4:20 Advanced Mobility – 1
- Advanced
Adaptive Mobility Systems for Autonomous Access to High Risk Terrain
(Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian, Brett Kennedy, Tony Ganino, and
Paul Schenker, JPL)
- Biomimetic
Robots for the Real World (Frank Kirchner, University of Bremen and
Northeastern University; Dirk Spenneberg, GMD)
- Robot
Work Crew as Construction Precursors for a Manned Mars Habitat (Ashitey
Trebi-Ollennu, Hari Das Nayar, Anthony Ganino, Terry Huntsberger, and
Paul Schenker, JPL)
- Sustained
Surface Exploration of the Earth-like Planets (David Wettergreen, CMU)
4:20
- 4:40 Short Break
4:40
- 5:30 Discussion Session
- Open
Discussion: Towards Robosphere1, Challenges and Directions
7:00
– 10:00 Dinner at Buca di Beppo, Palo Alto
Friday
November 15
8:00
– 8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30
– 9:00 Invited Talk
- The “Long
Day’s Drive” (LDD) – A Proposal for Exploring the
Northern Martian Pole (Michael Sims, NASA Ames)
9:00
– 10:00 Distributed Autonomy – 2
- TraderBots:
A Robust Approach To Long-Duration Multirobot Coordination (M. Bernardine
Dias and Tony Stentz, CMU)
- CAMPOUT:
Behavior-Based Control for Autonomous Robotic Outposts (Terry Huntsberger,
Hrand Aghazarian, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, and Paul Schenker, JPL)
10:00
- 10:30 Break
10:30
- 12:00 Autonomous Construction and Self Configuration – 2
- Self
Reconfigurable Robots for Robosphere (Wei-Min Shen and Peter Will, USC/ISI)
- Solid
Free-Form Fabrication for Self-Sustained Robot Ecologies: Challenges
and Opportunities (Evan Malone and Hod Lipson, Cornell University)
- Coordination
of Robotic Teams for Assembly Operations (Sanjiv Singh and Reid Simmons,
CMU)
12:00
- 1:30 Lunch + Computer History Museum tour
1:30
- 2:30 Distributed Autonomy – 3
- Robot
Economy (Laura Plice, QSS/NASA Ames)
- Snow
White and the 700 Dwarves: A Cooperating Robotic System (Brian Wilcox,
JPL)
- An Aerobot
Ecology (Greg Pisanich, QSS/NASA Ames and Larry Young, NASA Ames)
2:30
– 2:50 Short Break
2:50
– 3:50 Distributed Autonomy – 4
- Heterogeneous
Robotic Agents in Mars Colonies (Hamid Berenji, David Vengerov, and
Jayesh Ametha, IIS)
- Factored
Sampling for Hierarchical Monitoring of Complex Hybrid Systems (Brenda
Ng and Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University)
- A Facility
And Architecture For Autonomy Research (Lorenzo Flückiger, Christian
Neukom, Mike Wagner, Laura Plice, Cory Ippolito, and Greg Pisanich,
QSS/NASA Ames)
3:50-
4:20 Break
4:20 – 5:30 Closing Session
- Panel:
Technology Insertion for Advanced Robotic Concepts
- Concluding
remarks (Silvano Colombano, NASA Ames)
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