Schedule

Workshop location
Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 105
University of Southern California

8:00 - 8:05 : Opening and Welcome

8:05 - 8:40 : Anh Van Ho (theme - sensing)

8:40 - 8:55 : Spotlight Jessica Yin (theme - sensing)

8:55 - 9:10 : Spotlight Faraz (theme - sensing)

9:10 - 9:20 : Poster Presentations Slot 1 (2 mins each)

9:20 - 9:35 : Spotlight Siddharth (theme - sensing)

9:35 - 10:05 : Matt Mason (theme - control, planning, and simulation)

10:05 - 10:40 : Zac Manchester (theme - control, planning, and simulation)

10:40 - 11:00 : Coffee break

11:05 - 11:40 : Spotlight Paarth Shah (theme - data driven approaches)

11:40 - 11:55 : Poster Presentations Slot 2 (2 mins each)

11:55 - 12:25 : Panel discussion 1 (A systems perspective)

12:30 - 14:00 : Lunch break

14:00 - 14:35 : Harold Soh (theme - data driven approaches)

14:35 - 15:10 : Yasemin Bekiroglu (theme - data driven approaches)

15:10 - 15:30 : Lin Shao (theme - data driven approaches)

15:30 - 16:00 : Panel discussion 2 (A foundations perspective)

16:00 - 16:30 : Coffee break

16:30 : Awards & closing

Poster Presentation Schedule

9:10 - 9:20: Poster Presentations Slot 1 (2 mins each)

1. DEXO lightweight exoskeleton

2. eFlesh: Highly customizable Magnetic Touch Sensing using Cut-Cell Microstructures

3. AnySkin + Feel the Force: Sensing and Learning from Tactile Data in Robotics

4. PolarTact3D: Single-shot Tactile 3D Shape and Color Sensing with Polarization Imaging

5. Diffusion-based Inverse Observation Model for Artificial Skin

11:40 - 11:55: Poster Presentations Slot 2 (2 mins each)

1. Learning Multi-Contact Localization via Diffusion Models with Proprioceptive Sensing

2. Injecting Global Insights into Local Contact-Implicit MPC

3. DyWA: Dynamics-adaptive World Action Model for Generalizable Non-prehensile Manipulation

4. Reactive Diffusion Policy: Slow-Fast Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation

5. Convex MPC for Systems with Contact via the Koopman Operator

6. RoboPanoptes: The All-Seeing Robot with Whole-body Dexterity

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