Symposium on “Brain, Body and Machine” |
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Centre for Intelligent Machines |
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McGill University |
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25 Years of Excellence |
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Venue: Ex-Centris 3536 BOUL. SAINT-LAURENT, Montreal, QC H2X 2V1, Canada +1-514-847-2206 Wednesday November 10 at the symposium venue : 5:00 pm: registration, followed by cash bar Thursday November 11, banquet at the Mcgill Faculty Club: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm To download the Symposium program pdf file, please click here. |
Final PROGRAM |
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Friday November 12 |
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Keynote Lecture & Morning Session 1 |
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9:00-9:40 |
Keynote speaker : Jean-Claude Piedboeuf |
Canada's Space Exploration Core Program: Preparatory Activities |
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9:40-10:20 |
Xinjilefu, Vincent Hayward, and Hannah Michalska |
Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum |
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Kamel Zaarouri, Ahmad Haidar, Benoit Boulet |
Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality |
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10:20-10:40 |
Coffee Break |
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Morning Session 2 |
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10:40-12:20 |
Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Robert Sim, and Gregory Dudek |
Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction |
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Eric Lucet, Christophe Grand and Philippe Bidaud |
Sliding-mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-steering Mobile Robot |
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Joelle Pineau, Amin Atrash, Robert Kaplow and Julien Villemure |
On the Design and Validation of An Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons From the SmartWheeler Project |
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Michael T. Tolley and Hod Lipson |
Three Dimensional Stochastic Fluidic Assembly of Minimalistic Modules |
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Mojtaba Nourian, Peter E. Caines, Roland P. Malhamé and Minyi Huang |
Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory |
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Afternoon Session 1 |
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1:40-3:40 |
Farzam Ranjbaran |
A Review of Selected Thematic Activities at the European Science Foundation |
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Inna Sharf |
Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot |
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James Smith and Jamil Jivraj |
Preliminary Energetics of Tripedal and Quadrupedal Gaits Using the GARP-4 Robot |
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Clément Gosselin, Simon Lefrançois and Nathaniel Zoso |
Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies |
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Philippe Cardou |
Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements |
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Stéphane Caro, Guillaume Moroz, Thibault Gayral, Damien Chablat and Chao Chen |
Singularity Analysis of a Six-dof Parallel Manipulator using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases |
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3:40-4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Afternoon Session 2 |
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4:00-5:05 |
James Smith and Jamil Jivraj |
Analysis of Robotics Dynamixel AX-12+ Actuator Latencies |
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Oleg Gubanov and Luca Cortelezzi |
Design of an optimal mixer |
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László L. Kovács and Ambrus Zelei |
Servo Constraint Based Computed Torque Control of ACROBOTER |
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Benoit Boulet |
Closing Remarks |
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