On Saturday, November 23, 2024, a social event was held at the Little Delirium Café during the Humanoids 2024 conference. The event was organized jointly by the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee (TC) on Whole-Body Control (WBC) and the TC on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics (MBO).
Originally scheduled to occur before the conference banquet, the event proved so successful that it continued even after the banquet, remaining at the same venue. The event was well-received, bringing together young and senior researchers, professors, and technical professionals in a lively and engaging atmosphere. Many attendees expressed enthusiasm for repeating such events at future Humanoids conferences.
– Name of grant: The expense is for the SpatialChat service, which was used to host a virtual poster session on July 11th, 2024. The service provided 70 virtual seats for participants.
-Name of recipient: Yanran Ding
Recipients of TC on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics ICRA 2024 Travel Grant:
Chuanbeibei Shi
Zeynep Özge Orhan
This is an evening social event organized for the members of the TC on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics and TC on Whole-Body Control at the Hemingway Cafe in Yokohama, a few minutes walk away from the conference venue. All you-can drink alcohol, and all-you-can eat appetizers were offered to all attendees of the two TCs.
Best student paper award:
Learning Plan-Satisficing Motion Policies from Demonstrations
Yanwei Wang (MIT); Nadia Figueroa (UPenn); Shen Li (MIT); Ankit Shah (Brown University); Julie Shah (MIT)”
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Joint happy hour between the TC on Humanoids and the TC on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics.
TC members gather at IROS 2023
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Invited speakers from the IROS 2023 workshop on Reactive and Predictive Whole-body Control were hosted at a dinner to conclude the event.
Speakers from the IROS 2023 workshop gather to celebrate the event’s success.
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Twenty posters were presented during this live event online.
A best poster award was given to the following contribution:
CACTO: Continuous Actor-Critic with Trajectory Optimization—Towards global optimality
Gianluigi Grandesso, Elisa Alboni, Gastone P. Rosati Papini, Patrick M. Wensing, Andrea Del Prete”
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Winner: Do Differentiable Simulators Give Better Policy Gradients? by H.J. Terry Suh, Max Simchowitz, Kaiqing Zhan, and Russ Tedrake
Finalists:
Collision detection accelerated: An optimization perspective by Louis Montaut, Quentin Le Lidec, Vladimir Petrik, Josef Sivic and Justin Carpentier
Analytical Second-Order Partial Derivatives of Rigid-Body Inverse Dynamics by Shubham Singh, Ryan P. Russell and Patrick M. Wensing
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Happy hour associated with ICRA 2023. Held at DoubleTree by Hilton London ExCeL.
TC members gather at ICRA 2023.
List of events organized or supported by the IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics
