Program at a glance

Download Oral Presentations and Poster Sessions Program

Session Co-Chairs: Prithviraj Dasgupta & Anindo Roy

Prithviraj Dasgupta, Anoop Mishra, Carl Nelson and Judith Bumfield, Towards Intelligent Semi-Autonomous Control of a Modular Robot for Human Mobility Assistance
Lidia Al-Zogbi, Anirudh Topiwala, Thorsten Fleiter and Axel Kriger, Deep Learning Techniques for Abdominal Skin and Wound Segmentation
Ashwin Goyal, Ruben Acevedo, and Anindo Roy, Investigating the Benefits of Force Feedback on an Ankle Robot for Rehabilitation of Foot Drop After Stroke
Anderson Camp, Edward Chapman, and Paola Jaramillo, Control of Fluidic Artificial Muscles for Rehabilitation Exoskeleton
Zhenyu Lin, Charles Meehan, and John Baras, Statistics-Based Slippage Correction with a Dexterous Robotic Hand
Michael Kam, Hamed Saeidi, Ori Perl, David King and Axel Krieger, An Autonomous Robotic System for Damage Control Surgery

Session Co-Chairs: Mumu Xu & Raj Madhavan

Huan Xu and Joseph Borson, The Future of Legal and Ethical Regulations for Autonomous Robotics
Sheryl Gross-Glasser, Automated Vehicles: Ensuring Improvements for Currently Transportation-Challenged Populations
David Tomblin, Leah Kaplan, John Nelson, and Mahmud Farooque, “Our Driverless Future,” Informing Autonomous Vehicle Systems Design Through Participatory Technology Assessment
Robin Murphy, Ethics in Disaster Robotics

Session Co-Chairs: Axel Krieger & Francisco Cuellar

Ariel Slepyan, Rupsa Acharya, Andrei Silva, Deepesh Kumar, and Nitish Thakor, A Biomimetic Soft Finger for Palpation Applications
Bart Paulhamus, Edward Staley, Corban Rivera, Kapil Katyal and Chien-Ming Huang, Amplified Control for Robotic Teleportation
Louis Dankovich and Sarah Bergbreiter, CapSense: A Low Cost Wearable Gesture Recognition Technology
Kapil Katyal, I-Jeng Wang, Gregory Hager and Chien-Ming Huang, Intent-Aware Human Motion Prediction Using Deep Generative Neural Networks
Javier Alfredo Hilario Poma, Jose Guillemo Balbuena Galvan, Christian Penaloza, David Hernandez Carmona, Diego Quiroz, Jorge Ramirez and Francisco Cuéllar, Development of a Mobile Robot for Inspections of Analog Gauges in Industrial Plants
Jiawei Ge, Hamed Saeidi, Justin Opfermann, Arjun Joshi and Axel Krieger, Landmark-guided Deformable Image Registration for Supervised Autonomous Robotic Tumor Resection

Session Co-Chairs: Jonathan Kelly & Ashwin Ashok

Ashwin Ashok, Creating a Pipeline for Women in Engineering and Computing Through Girls Robotics Initiatives
Nisha Pillai, Francis Ferraro and Cynthia Matuszek, The Need for Interactive Learning by Robots in Human-Centric Environments
James Tangorra, Joseph Hughes and Mira Olson, Peace Engineering: Engineering for Communities Affected by Conflict
Jonathan Kelly, Htoo Htet and Joao Dutra, Leveraging Robotics Education to Improve Prosperity in Developing Nations: An Early Case Study in Myanmar

Session Co-Chairs: Miao Yu & Jason Gregory

Jason Gregory, S. Al-Hussain and SK Gupta, Human-Robot Teaming for Safe, Resilient Operations in Humanitarian Applications
Bjorn Lutjens, Lucas Liebenwein and Katharina Kramer, Using Machine Learning for Forest Inventory Assessment to Increase Transparency in Reforestation
Miao Yu, Jose-Luis Izursa, Ivan Penskiy, William Washburn and Diego Santaella, Urban Food Production Based Robot-Assisted Vertical Hydroponic Systems
Nathan Melenbrink and Justin Werfel, Autonomous Robots for Sustainable Land Management
Anousheh Gholami, Usman A. Fiaz and John S. Baras, Drone-Assisted Communications for Remote Areas and Disaster Relief
Katherine Glasheen and Eric Frew, Improving Understanding and Forecasting of Tornado Formation Using Networked Small UAS

Ramya Kanalapuli Rajasekaran and Eric Frew, Co-operative Estimation Architecture for Target Tracking Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Kamakshi Jain and Ian Moss, The UMD Micro Air Vehicle Team
Caroline Kery, Cynthia Matuszek and Francis Ferraro, Cross-Language Learning of Visuolinguistic Concepts for Robot Assistants Serving Non-English Users
Yanting Liu and Juan Rojas, Evaluation of ROOT Robot System and Curriculum to Improve Computational Thinking in Young Children
Craig Carignan, Tuvia Rappaport and Daniil Gribook, Exoskeleton Telepresence for Robots Performing In-Space Assembly and Servicing
Yuijiong Liu and Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, Maneuvering and Stabilization of Reduced Complexity Legged Robots Using Bio-Inspired Robotics Tails
Patrick Fox, The UMD Kite Energy Project
Gil Blankenship and Katrina Gramzinski, Sparkfy: An Autonomous In-Home Assistive Care Robot
Nikhil Nair, Standardized TCP-IP Protocol for Improved Networking Between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in City Protection Methods

Huan Xu and Joseph Borson, Regulatory Approaches for Learning – Enabled Components in Cyberphysical Systems
Harnaik Dhami, Tainshu Xu, Qian Zhu, Song Li and Pratap Tokekar, Crop Height Estimation with LIDAR Equipped Robots
John Winder, Stephanie Milani, Mathew Landen, Erebus Oh, Shane Parr, Shawn Squire, Marie desJardins and Cynthia Matuszek, Planning with Abstract, Learned Models
Andrew Mills and Eric Frew, Rapid Frontier View Sampling in Unexplored Environments
Yuxiang Gao and Chien-Ming Huang, Robot Programming by Situated Illustration
Fatemeh Alimardani and John S. Baras, A Comparison of System Optimum Equilibrium Traffic Assignment Using the Concave Form of the Fundamental Diagram
Lasitha Weerakoon and Nikhil Chopra, Bilateral Teleoperation of Soft Robots
Ahmed Ramadan, Anindo roy and Elisabeth Smela, A Wearable Pressure Sensor Recognizes Hemiparetic Ankle Defects
Behzad Sadrfaridpour, Kanishla Ganguly, Cornelia Fermuller and Yiannis Aloimonos, An Introduction to Computational Tactile Flow