Kickoff Meeting Agenda

 

Tentative MURI Kick-off Meeting Schedule

Georgia Tech Global Learning Center

December 8th, 2010

 

8:00am        Breakfast

9:00am        ARO Director opening remarks

9:10am        Overview of MURI Proposed Research Efforts and Scope (P. Tsiotras - GT)

9:30am        “Controlling High-Speed Vehicles over Rough Terrain” (P. Tsiotras – GT)

10:20am       “Terrain Property Estimation and Threat Assessment for High-speed Vehicle Navigation” (K. Iagnemma – MIT)

11:10am       “Real-Time Planning and Control of High-Speed Vehicles” (E. Frazzoli – MIT)

12:00pm       Lunch

1:00pm        “Bottom-up and Top-down Attention Control in Interactive Environments” (L. Itti – USC)

1:50pm        “A Neuro-inspired Dual Vision System: Optical Flow Templates and Multi-Foveal Perception” (F. Dellaert – GT)

2:40pm        “Event-Centric Perception in Dynamic Environments” (J. Rehg – GT)

3:30pm        “Validation and Verification of Embedded Control Software for Autonomous and Semi-autonomous Vehicles” (E. Feron – GT)

4:20pm        Discussion (All)

4:50pm        Wrap-up and Closing Remarks  (P. Tsiotras – GT)

5:00pm        Adjourn

 

Dynamics and Control Systems Lab

 

Robotic Mobility Group

 

Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory

About us

We are three research groups from Georgia Tech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California, collaborating to perform basic research on high-speed autonomous driving.  We are most interested in researching biologically-inspired methods in the realms of both perception and control.

Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the Army Research Office under MURI Award W911NF-11-1-0046.