2019 SoCal Robotics Symposium

The Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR) is a one-day technical symposium that aims to bring together roboticists from around Southern California. With a high density of academic institutions, research centers, and industry players, SCR is expected to have a large audience with broad expertise and interests. It will also be a showcase for established and up-and-coming robot companies as well as a recruitment opportunity for local companies and startups.

After hosting SCR 2017 and SCR 2016, we hope to continue the success of this annual conference. The symposium will once again feature an amazing line-up of speakers from academia and industry, robotics demos, and industry booths. In addition, feature poster/demo sessions will foster discussion on recent developments in robotics.

Speakers

We are excited to announce this amazing lineup for the 2019 edition of SCR!

Schedule

8:00AM	Check-in and Breakfast Sponsored by iRobot
9:00AM	Opening Remarks Morteza Gharib: Welcome to SCR
9:15AM	First Session of Talks Aaron D. Ames: The Quest for Autonomy on Robotic Systems Emel Demircan: Understanding Human Perception in Manipulation and Locomotion Skills Thomas Bewley: Delta-DOGS and the increasing role of efficient nonconvex optimization in the design and deployment of complex robotic systems Benjamin T Pipenberg: Design and development of the Mars Helicopter Rotor System and Airframe Michael Lohnert: Understanding the stage of your startup and working with venture capitalists
10.30AM	Coffee Break
11.00AM	Second Session of Talks Animashree Anandkumar: Enabling Autonomy by Infusing Physics and Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms Satyandra K. Gupta: Realizing Smart Robotic Assistants through Advances in Artificial Intelligence Jorge Cortés: Resource-Aware Coordination Algorithms of Multi-Agent Systems Aaron Parness: Climbing Robots for Extreme Environments Andreas Kolling: The technologies inside the Roomba i7+
12.15PM	Lunch
1:15PM	Spotlight Talks
2:15PM	Posters, Exhibitions and Tours
4:15PM	Third Session of Talks Vandi Verma: Autonomous Target Selection and Observation for Curiosity and Mars 2020 rovers Ryan Sinnet: Bringing AI-Powered Robots into Food Service Solmaz S. Kia: UWB-based decentralized cooperative localization for Infrastructure-free localization in GPS-denied Environments Elliot Hawkes: Adding Soft to Robotics: From gecko-inspired wall-climbing to vine-inspired navigation Stefan Scherer: Learning Representations of Human Behavior
5:30PM	Closing Remarks
5:45PM	Reception

Papers

We received many great submissions this year and accepted more contributions than we could fit in the Spotlight Session. Make sure to check out all contributions in the poster session!

Presented in the Spotlight and Poster Sessions

1:15PM	1. Elizabeth R. Boroson and Nora Ayanian 3D Keypoint Repeatability for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot SLAM
1:18PM	2. Parth Paritosh, Nikolay Atanasov and Sonia Martinez Distributed estimation algorithms on optimally assigned hypotheses
1:21PM	3. Jiali Duan, Qian Wang, Lerrel Pinto, C.-C. Jay Kuo and Stefanos Nikolaidis Robust Grasping via Human Adversary
1:24PM	4. Qiaojun Feng, Yue Meng, Mo Shan, and Nikolay Atanasov Localization and Mapping using Instance-specific Mesh Models
1:27PM	5. Weicheng Huang, Xiaonan Huang, Carmel Majidi, and Mohammad K. Jawed Dynamic Simulation for Soft Multi-limbed Robot
1:30PM	6. Sangjun Lee and Byung-Cheol Min Secure Multi-Robot Systems: Distributed Cyber-Threat Identification using Direction of Arrival of Wireless Signals
1:33PM	7. Maryam Pourebadi and Laurel D. Riek Enhancing Robotic Patient Simulators to Support the Clinical Workforce
1:36PM	8. Dezhong Tong, Longhui Qin, Yayun Du, Weicheng Huang, Mohammad Khalid Jawed Robust Physics-based Scheme for Robotic Deployment of Elastic Ropes
1:39PM	9. Hiroyasu Tsukamoto and Soon-Jo Chung Optimal Tracking Control for Stochastic Nonlinear Systems using Contraction Analysis
1:42PM	10. Hejia Zhang, Eric Heiden, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Joseph J. Lim, Gaurav S. Sukhatme Auto-conditioned Recurrent Mixture Density Networks for Learning Generalizable Robot Skills
1:45PM	11. Xinyun Zou, Tiffany Hwu, Emre Neftci, and Jeffrey Krichmar Terrain Classification With A Reservoir-Based Network of Spiking Neurons
1:48PM	12. Guanya Shi, Xichen Shi, Michael O’Connell, Rose Yu, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Animashree Anandkumar, Yisong Yue, and Soon-Jo Chung Neural Lander: Stable Drone Landing Control Using Learned Dynamics
1:51PM	13. Artem Molchanov, Tao Chen, Wolfgang Honig, James A. Preiss, Nora Ayanian and Gaurav S. Sukhatme Sim-to-(Multi)-Real: Transfer of Low-Level Robust Control Policies to Multiple Quadrotors
1:54PM	14. Baskın Şenbaşlar, Wolfgang Hönig, and Nora Ayanian Robust Trajectory Execution for Multi-Robot Teams Using Distributed Real-time Replanning
1:57PM	15. Angelique Taylor and Laurel D. Riek Group Perception Methods to Support Human-Robot Teaming
2:00PM	16. Tianyu Wang and Nikolay Atanasov Learning Navigation Costs from Demonstration via Differentiable Planning
2:03PM	17. Muhan Zhao, Shahrouz Ryan Alimo, Pooriya Beyhaghi, and Thomas R. Bewley Safe Learning Derivative-free Optimization via Global Surrogates for Quadrotors Trajectory Following

Presented in the Poster Session

21. Mo Shan

22. Azarakhsh Jalalvand, Baptist Vandersmissen, Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens

23. Tiffany Hwu, Hirak J. Kashyap and Jeffrey L. Krichmar

24. Tsang-Kai Chang, Shengkang Chen and Ankur Mehta

25. Alexander S. Koumis, James A. Preiss, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

26. Elliot Recinos, Makenna Henry, and Emel Demircan

27. Giovanni Sutanto, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Yevgen Chebotar, Zhe Su, Ankur Handa, Nathan Ratliff and Dieter Fox

28. Yayun Du, Jacqueline Lam, Karunesh Sachanandani, Weicheng Huang, Mohammad Khalid Jawed

29. John R. Abella and Emel Demircan

30. Paul B. Reverdy

31. Alyssa Kubota, Tariq Iqbal, Julie A. Shah, Laurel D. Riek

32. Caleb Christianson, Nathaniel N. Goldberg, Guorui Li, Dimitri Deheyn, Shengqiang Cai, and Michael T. Tolley

33. Aamodh Suresh and Sonia Martínez

34. Michael Ishida, Dylan Drotman, Benjamin Shih, Mark Hermes, Mitul Luhar, and Michael T. Tolley

35. Dylan Drotman, David Sharp, Michael Ishida, Saurabh Jadhav, Philip deZonia, Mahmood Karimi, Michael T. Tolley

36. Shurjo Banerjee, Vikas Dhiman, Jason Corso

37. Fatak Borhani, Niranjan Ravichandra, John L. Crassidis

38. Sauhaarda Chowdhuri, Tushar Pankaj, Karl Zipser

39. Kyunam Kim, Salar Rahili, Xichen Shi, Soon-Jo Chung, and Morteza Gharib

40. Rebecca Foust, Soon-Jo Chung and Fred Hadaegh

41. David D. Fan, Rohan Thakker, Tara Bartlett, Meriem Ben Miled, Leon Kim, Evangelos Theodorou, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

42. Tomoki Emmei, Thomas Lew, Tara Bartlett, David D. Fan, Rohan Thakker, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

Exhibition Booths and Sponsorship

We would like to invite your company or university to be part of the Booth Exhibition which will take place in front of Ramo Auditorium and support SCR2019.