Participants from the public and private sectors are invited to attend the JHU Robotics Industry Day, hosted by the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, to see cutting-edge robotics research and explore university-corporate partnerships.
Meet robotics experts at Hopkins and discuss furthering robotics research, education and commercialization in healthcare, manufacturing, defense, space exploration, environmental science and transportation.
The humanoid robot DURUS was unveiled to the public in the midst of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). While the main competition took place in the stadium, DURUS took part in the Robot Endurance Test with the goal of demonstrating locomotion that is an order of magnitude more efficient than existing bipedal walking on humanoid robots, e.g., the ATLAS robot utilized in the DRC. During this accessible public demonstration of humanoid robotic walking, DURUS walked continuously for over 2½ hours covering over 2 km—all on a single 1.1 kWh battery. At the core of this success was a methodology for designing and realizing dynamic and efficient walking gaits on bipedal robots through a mathematical framework that utilizes hybrid systems models coupled with nonlinear controllers that provably result in stable locomotion. This mathematical foundation allowed for the full utilization of novel mechanical components of DURUS, including: efficient cycloidal gearboxes (allowing for almost lossless transmission of power) and compliant elements at the ankles (absorbing the impacts at foot-strike). Through this combination of formal controller design and novel mechanical design, the humanoid robot DURUS was able to achieve the most efficient walking ever recorded on a humanoid robot. This talk will outline the key elements of the methodology used to achieve this result, demonstrate the extensibility to other bipedal robots and robotic assistive devices, e.g., prostheses, and consider the question: when will the humanoid robots of science fiction become science fact?
Aaron D. Ames joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in July 2015 as an Associate Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Professor and Morris E. Foster Faculty Fellow II in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, with joint appointments in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering. Dr. Ames received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of St. Thomas in 2001, and he received a M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2006. He served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2008. At UC Berkeley, he was the recipient of the 2005 Leon O. Chua Award for achievement in nonlinear science and the 2006 Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics. Dr. Ames received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 for his research on bipedal robotic walking and its applications to prosthetic devices, and is the recipient of the 2015 Donald P. Eckman Award recognizing an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. His lab designs, builds and tests novel bipedal robots, humanoids and prostheses with the goal of achieving human-like bipedal robotic walking and translating these capabilities to robotic assistive devices.
The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics will highlight its elite robotics students and showcase cutting-edge research projects in areas that include Medical Robotics, Extreme Environments Robotics, Human-Machine Systems for Manufacturing, BioRobotics and more. JHU Robotics Industry Day will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Hackerman Hall on the Homewood Campus at Johns Hopkins University.
Robotics Industry Day will provide top companies and organizations in the private and public sectors with access to the LCSR’s forward-thinking, solution-driven students. The event will also serve as an informal opportunity to explore university-industry partnerships.
You will experience dynamic presentations and discussions, observe live demonstrations, and participate in speed networking sessions that afford you the opportunity to meet Johns Hopkins most talented robotics students before they graduate.
Please contact Rose Chase if you have any questions.
LEVERING GREAT HALL
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome: Larry Nagahara, Associate Dean for Research, JHU
8:35 Introduction to LCSR: Director Russell H. Taylor
8:55 Research and Commercialization Highlights
9:00 Louis Whitcomb, LCSR
9:10 Noah Cowan & Erin Sutton, LCSR
9:20 Marin Kolilarov, LCSR
9:30 Philipp Stolka, Clear Guide Medical
9:40 Mehran Armand, APL and LCSR
9:50 Stephen L. Hoffman, Sanaria, Inc.
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:10 Bernhard Fuerst, LCSR
10:20 Bruce Lichorowic, Galen Robotics
10:30 David Narrow, Sonavex, Inc.
10:40 Kelleher Guerin & Benjamin Gibbs, READY Robotics
10:50 Promit Roy, Max and Haley LLC
11:00 John Krakauer, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare Update, JHU
11:10 New Faculty Talks
11:10 – Muyinatu Bell
11:30 – Jeremy D. Brown
HACKERMAN HALL B17 LOBBY
12:00-1:15 LUNCH
HACKERMAN HALL ROBOTORIUM
12:00-1:15 Poster + Demo Sessions
HACKERMAN HALL B17
1:15-3:00 Student and Industry Speed Networking
Please contact Rose Chase if you have any questions. Download PDF of Campus Map & Schedule of Events
We are super excited for you to join us on our first LCSR social event of this spring term! We are planning to get together for an ice-skating session on Thursday January 26th @6:00 pm at the JHU ice rink, followed by an informal happy hour at the Charles Village Pub (we are not providing food or drinks this time). The ice rink on the night of the 26th is dedicated to JHU grad students, so it’s a good opportunity to mingle with peeps from other departments as well! If you are interested in joining us, please sign up on this google form – we will be taking in people on a first come first serve basis.
We currently have 27 available tickets open only to LCSR students. However, you are free to bring in extra guests by signing them up yourselves at this link (please read through JHU’s policy on bringing in non JHU affiliated guests on their website). We will be meeting up at Hackerman breezeway at 5:40pm to head together as a group because all tickets are registered under 3 of our committee members’ names. The skating session will last for 1.5 hours.
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Lastly, we wanted to emphasize that the aforementioned date is TENTATIVE and weather dependent. Should the clouds bless us with rain on that Thursday, we will need to postpone the event. We will send an email on Monday January 23rd to confirm the final date, but it will most likely be a Thursday or Friday either the week of January 23 or 30.
Looking forward to cruising with you soon ⛸️⛸️!