Climbing and Walking Robot- CLAWAR 2012
Along with CLAWAR Association the conference is a joint effort between a number of US universities and a US government organization:
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northern Illinois University
- Loyola University Maryland
- University of Maryland
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
Mobile robotics is a relatively small but fast growing subset of Robotics field. The vision of CLAWAR Association is to facilitate Education & Training and promotion of state of the art Research and Development in the area of mobile robotics with associated applications, for the benefit of the global Robotics Community and Society. The CLAWAR Association is organizing annual conferences since 1998, mostly in Europe and Southeast Asian countries. This conference will be the first CLAWAR event in USA.
US is one of the major contributors for the advancement of Mobile Robotics (public, private, homeland security, and defense sectors). There are a number of world leading universities and companies who have strong research and development activities in this field. Organizing a CLAWAR conference at Johns Hopkins University will provide a platform for this community in US while advance the mission of the association.
Program
July 23, 2012 (Monday)
08:00- Registration 09:10- Opening remarks 09:15- Plenary 1: Robert J Full 10:05- Coffee/Tea 10:25- Plenary 2: Jessy Grizzle 11:30- Three Parallel Sessions 12:30- Lunch 13:30- Two Parallel Sessions 14:50- Coffee/Tea 15:10- Two Parallel Sessions 17:50- Closing
July 24, 2012 (Tuesday)
09:00- Plenary 3: Dirk Lefeber 09:50- CLAWAR2013 & CLAWAR Assocation Report 10:05- Coffee/Tea 10:25- Plenary 4: Daniel Koditschek 11:30- Two Parallel Sessions 12:30- Lunch 13:30- Three Parallel Sessions 14:50- Coffee/Tea 15:10- Three Parallel Sessions 20:00- Banquet
July 25, 2012 (Wednesday)
09:00- Plenary 5: Marc Raibert 10:05- Coffee/Tea along with Poster Session & Robot Demo 11:30- Two Parallel Sessions 12:30- Lunch 13:30- Three Parallel Sessions 15:10- Coffee/Tea 15:30- Closure
July 26, 2012 (Thursday)
Dirk Lefeber, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumTitle : Use of Compliant Actuators in Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics Please click here for abstract |
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Robert Full, University of California, Berkeley, USATitle : Robustness in Animals as Inspiration for the Next Generation Robot Please click here for abstract |
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Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, USATitle : Feedback Control of Planar Bipedal Locomotion Please Click here for abstract |
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Daniel Koditschek, University of Pennsylvania, USATitle : Transitions in the Locomotion of Robots and the Robotics of Locomotion Please Click here for abstract |
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Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamics, USATitle : AlphaDog, the Rough-Terrain Robot Please Click here for abstract |
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Conference Co-Chairs
Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University, USA Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Program Chair
M. Osman Tokhi, University of Sheffield, UK
Local Organizing Committee
Roger D. Eastman, Loyola University, USA (Chair) Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA Roger V. Bostelman, NIST, USA Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University, USA S.K. Gupta, University of Maryland, USA Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland, USA
International Advisory Committee
Gurvinder S. Virk, University of Gävle, Sweden (Chair) H. Levent Atkin, Bogazici University, Turkey Manuel Armada, CSIC, Spain Krasten Berns, University of Kaisereslautern, Germany Philippe Bidaud, UPMC, France Bryan Bridge, TWI, UK Anibal T de Almeida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Steven Dubowsky, MIT, USA Hideo Fujimoto, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Daniel Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Giovanni Muscato, University of Catania, Italy Roger Quinn, Case Western Reserve University, USA Lakmal Seneviratne, Kings College London, UK Kenneth J Waldron, Stanford University, USA Ming Xie, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
International Program Committee
| Majid N. Ahmadabadi, Iran Md Shafiul Alam, Bangladesh Fareg M Aldbrez, UK Anibal De Almeida, Portugal Ronald Arkin, USA Bishakh Bhattacharya, India Faiz Benamar, France John Billingsley, Australia Fabio Bonsignorio, Italy Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf, UK Stephen Cameron, UK Hong Cheng, China Christine Chevallerau, France Chee-Meng Chew, Singapore Daisuke Chugo, Japan Holk Cruse, Germany Sam Cubero, Australia Jian Dai, UK Abbas Dehghani, UK Pablo G de Santos, Spain diger Dillmann, Germany Tony J. Dodd, UK Matthew Dunbabin, Australia Max Suell Dutra, Brazil Ashish Dutta, India Jean-Guy Fontaine, Italy Yili Fu, China | Elena Garcia, Spain Sam S Ge, Singapore Khaled M. Goher, Oman Valery Gradetsky, Russia Christophe Grand, France Roderich Gross, UK Aarne Halme, Finland Neil Heyes, UK Alamgir Hossain, UK David Howard, UK Loulin Huang, NZ Ion Ion, Romania Sergey F. Jatsun, Russia Endre E. Kadar, UK Petko Kiriazov, Bulgaria Peter Kopacek, Austria Kazuhiro Kosuge, Japan M. Anthony Lewis, USA Juan Lopez-Coronado, Spain Jose T. Machado, Portugal Raj Madhavan, USA Lino Marques, Portugal Rasha Massoud, Syria Hiromi Mochiyama, Japan Z. Mohamed, Malaysia Rezia Molfino, Italy Seungbin Moon, Korea Taro Nakamura, Japan | Dilip Kumar Pratihar, India Samia Nefti-Meziani, UK Tony J Prescot, UK Michael Rachkov, Russia Hernando L. Rodriguez, Columbia Akihito Sano, Japan Vitor Santos, Portugal Tariq P. Sattar, UK Klaus Schilling, Germany Hasan Shaheed, UK H. M Amin Shamsudin, Malaysia Sanjay K. Sharma, UK Nazmul H. Siddique, UK Filipe Silva, Portugal Miroslaw J. Skibniewski, USA Leif Steinicke, Belgium László Vajta, Hungary Anton Vitko, Slovakia Rich Walker, UK Keigo Watanabe, Japan Heinz Wöern, Germany Ahmet Yigit, Kuwait Zhaowei W Zhong, Singapore Changjiu J Zhou, Singapore Teresa Zielinska, Poland Albert Zomaya, Australia |
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Interested to be a Sponsor?
CLAWAR2012 will be the first CLAWAR event in North America. With its location in the technology and government corridor of Washington-DC/Baltimore, will bring together industry and academia. Attendance is estimated at around 200 participants. This can be a great opportunity for your organization/company to promote your products during this event.
Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities: – Demonstration space for products and research projects – Flyers and promotional items in attendee bag – Logo on conference bag, lanyards and other attendee items – Passes to conference
Please contact Dr. Roger Eastman for details and sponsorship rates: Dr. Roger D. Eastman, Associate Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science Loyola University Maryland Baltimore, MD 21210 Email: reastman@loyola.edu Tel: 410-617-2281; Fax: 410-617-2157
Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University, USA Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
CLAWAR 2012 Secretariat
Email: clawar2012@niu.edu Tel: 815-753-0386 Fax: 815-753-3702