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Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics
and Robot Showcase
FCRAR 2006, Miami, Florida, May 25-26, 2006
Conference Program
Thursday, May 25, 2006
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8:00-9:00 |
Registration |
GC 140 |
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9:00-9:15 |
Welcome, Stephanie Strange, FIU |
GC 140 |
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9:15-9:30 |
Executive Dean Vish Prasad,
College of Engineering and Computing, FIU |
GC 140 |
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9:30-11:30 |
Session 1: Vision |
GC 140 |
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11:30-12:00 |
Robot Show |
GC PIT |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch, Fresh Food Company |
GC Cafeteria |
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1:00-2:00 |
Keynote Address: Near-Term Challenges Across the DoD Unmanned
Systems Spectrum, Lew Goldberg, President, AUVSI |
GC 140 |
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2:00-4:00 |
Session 2: Teleoperation and Navigation |
GC 140 |
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Session 3:
AUVSI
Florida Peninsula Chapter Meeting |
GC 150 |
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4:00-4:15 |
Break |
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4:15-6:00 |
Session 4: Autonomous and Unmanned Vehicles |
GC 140 |
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Session 5: Robotic and Biomedical Applications |
GC 150 |
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8:00 |
Dinner at The Knife Parrilla |
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Friday, May 26, 2006
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8:00-8:30 |
Registration |
GC 140 |
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8:30-10:30 |
Session 6: Modeling of Robots |
GC 140 |
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Session 7: Design and Control of Robots |
GC 150 |
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10:30-11:00 |
Robot Show |
GC PIT |
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11:00-12:00 |
Special Session on Robot Competitions:
DARPA Grand Challenge: Autonomous Vehicle Development, Carl Crane, UF
Battlebot IQ: The Smart Sport, Nola Garcia, CEO, Battlebots
AUVSI Surface Vehicle Competition, Gary Stein, UCF |
GC 140 |
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12:00-12:15 |
Awards |
GC 140 |
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12:15-1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00-2:00 |
Keynote Address: Predicting Emergent Behavior, Randall Shumaker,
Director, Institute for Simulation and Training, UCF |
GC 140 |
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2:00-3:45 |
Session 8: Autonomous and Unmanned Vehicles |
GC 140 |
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Session 9:
Mobile Robots |
GC
150 |
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3:45-4:00 |
Break |
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4:00-6:00 |
Session 10: Modeling and Design of Robots |
GC 140 |
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