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International Workshop on

Motion Planning in Virtual Environments

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, January 7-8, 2005


Friday 7th


7h45Bus Departure from Toulouse Downtown to LAAS
(Meeting point : Gaumont Theater, Place Wilson
8h15Welcome at LAAS
8h45Welcome Address

Collision Detection

9h00 Recent advances on proximity queries for motion planning Ming Lin (UNC, USA)
9h25 Efficient collision detection for VR and simulation software Gabriel Zachmann (Bonn University, Germany)
9h50 Bayesian collision detection and path planning Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin (Inria Rhone-Alpes, France)
10h15 Continuous collision detection: progress and challenges Gino van den Bergen (DTECTA, Netherland)
10h40Coffee Break
11h00 Exact collision detection: recent developments and applications Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Algorithms 1

11h25 Solving problems in configuration space by exploiting structure Oliver Brock (UMass, USA)
11h50 Dynamic domain RRT's Steve Lavalle (University of Illinois, USA)
12h15 Novel approaches for motion planning of rigid and deformable robots Dinesh Manocha (UNC, USA)
12h40Lunch

Algorithms 2

14h00 Sensor based robotics: an autonomous observer Rafael Murrieta (ITESM, Mexique)
14h25 Iterative partial motion planning for partially known environments Thierry Fraichard (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
14h50 Roadmap-based motion planning in dynamic environments Jur van den Berg (Utrecht University, Netherland)
15h15Coffee Break

Feedback on Motion Planning Technology 1

15h45 Motion in virtual vehicle development process Lothar Teske (Opel, Germany)
16h10 Motion planning technologies for planetary rovers and manipulators Eric T. Baumgartner (JPL, USA)
16h35 Airbus practices for human simulation Christophe Leroy (Airbus, France)

Demonstrations

17h15 Non-holonomic Robots Florent Lamiraux (LAAS-CNRS)
17h45 Personal Robotics Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS)
18h30 Bus Departure to social event place - Dinner


Saturday 8th


7h45Bus Departure from Toulouse Downtown to LAAS
(Meeting point : Gaumont Theater, Place Wilson

Algorithms 3

8h35 Multiple robot coordination Srinivas Akella (RPI, USA)
9h00 Sampling based planning and verification Michael Branicky (Cleveland University, USA)
9h25 Motion planning for the on-orbit grasping of a tumbling target with large momentum Roberto Lampariello (DLR, Germany)

Virtual Actors Animation 1

9h50 Improving autonomy for humanoid robots with motion planning technology James Kuffner (CMU, USA)
10h15 Computing complex dynamics models of human and humanoid for motion planning, generation, and evaluation Yoshi Nakamura (Tokyo University, Japan)
10h40Coffee Break
11h00 Motion planning in games Mark Overmars (Utrecht, Netherland)

Planning Molecular Motions

11h25 Applying motion planning techniques to molecular docking Mark Moll (Rice University, USA)
11h50 Using motion planning to study protein folding pathways Nancy Amato (Texas University, USA)
12h15 A path planning approach for computing large motions of flexible molecules Juan Cortes(LAAS-CNRS, France)
12h40Lunch

Feedback on Motion Planning Technology 2

14h00 Interactive fitting for industrial applications Rodolphe Gelin (CEA, France)
14h25 Motion Planning at EDF: Opportunities and Key Issues (part2) Jean-Louis Bouchet (EDF, France)
14h50 Path planning for PLM Etienne Ferre (Kineo, France)
15h15Coffee Break

Virtual Actors Animation 2

15h45 Real-time full-body motion capture with reduced number of sensors: how to exploit prioritized inverse kinematics to obtain believable movements Ronan Boulic (EPFL, Switzerland)
16h10 Animating real-time virtual humans thanks to motion capture Franck Multon (Rennes University)
16h35 Motion planning for digital actors: manipulating while walking Jean-Paul Laumond, (LAAS-CNRS, France)
17h15 Bus Departure to downtown