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Schedule

Summer school schedule. List of tutorials, speakers, and links to presented material.
Live streams of the tutorials will be available at the links below.
Recordings of the tutorials will be available after the program on our YouTube page.

 

The summer school will be held in the following locations on the USC campus:

  • July 17, 19-21: Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL 101) – 941 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089
  • July 18: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) 200 – 831 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Please refer to this map of the University of Southern California for housing and lecture locations.

 

The labs require students to use their personal laptops, so please bring yours to the summer school. Refer to the schedule below for specific system requirements for each lab.

 

***Hover over talk titles for abstracts and speaker names for bios***

You can also download the current schedule here.

Day 1 – Wednesday, July 17 (SAL 101)

7:30am – 8:15am

Registration

8:15am – 10:00am

Welcome and Introduction

Talk 1: Are we ready for cognitive robots?

Sara Bernardini (Royal Holloway University of London)

Talk 2: Back to the Future of Autonomous Exploration

Brian Williams (MIT)

Talk 3: AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond!

Steve Chien (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL))

10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:45am

Tutorial 1: Socially Assistive Robotics

Speaker: Maja Mataric, University of Southern California (USC)

11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:30pm

Tutorial 2: Learning from Experience About Different Aspects of Space

Speaker: Ben Kuipers, University of Michigan

2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:45pm – 4:15pm

Tutorial 3: Online Learning for Adaptive Robotic Systems

Speaker: Byron Boots, Georgia Tech

4:15pm – 4:30pm Break
4:30pm – 6:30pm

Lab 1: Model Based Programming for Autonomous Systems

Lab Lead: Marlyse Reeves
Lab Support: Nikhil Bhargava, Jingkai Chen

Lab 1 requirements: Lab material and code will be available as a Jupyter Notebook on GoogleCloud. All that is needed to run the notebook is a browser. To access the notebook, participants will need to have a GitHub account.

 

Day 2 – Thursday, July 18 (SLH 200)

8:30am – 10:00am

Tutorial 4: Probabilistic Planning

Speaker: Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University

10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:45am

Tutorial 5: Robust Machine Learning and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Intent Recognition

Speaker: Dragos Marginaenru, Boeing Research & Technology

11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:30pm

Tutorial 6: Robust Deep Learning

Speaker: Zico Kolter, Carnegie Mellon University

2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:45pm – 4:15pm

Tutorial 7: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Speaker: George Konidaris, Brown University

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Social Dinner

The Lab Gastropub (3500 S Figueroa St)

 

Day 3 – Friday, July 19 (SAL 101)

8:30am – 10:00am

Tutorial 8: Classical Planning Algorithms

Speaker: Malte Helmert, University of Basel

10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:45am

Tutorial 9: An Odyssey through Temporal Planning

Speaker: David E. Smith NASA Ames Research Center

11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:30pm

Tutorial 10: Hybrid Activity and Motion Planning with Time-Evolved Goals

Speaker: Brian Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:45pm – 4:15pm

Tutorial 11: Integrating Task and Motion Planning

Speaker: Caelan Garrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4:15pm – 4:30pm Break
4:30pm – 6:30pm

Lab 2: Classical Planning

Lab Lead: Malte Helmert, University of Basel
Lab Support: Augusto Blaas Corrêa, Manuel Heusner

Lab 2 requirements: Please check system requirements here. You will also need the Vagrantfile that was emailed to attendees.

 

Day 4 – Saturday, July 20 (SAL 101)

8:30am – 10:00am

Tutorial 12: Planning Under Uncertainty

Speaker: Felipe Trevizan, Australian National University (ANU)

10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:45am

Tutorial 13: Risk-Bounded Planning

Speaker: Hiro Ono, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:30pm

Tutorial 14: Risk-Bounded Planning

Speaker: Ashkan Jasour, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:45pm – 4:15pm

Tutorial 15: Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Speaker: Luca Carlone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Day 5 – Sunday, July 21 (SAL 101)

8:30am – 10:00am

Tutorial 16: Vehicle Routing with Time Windows: A practical guide.

Speaker: Philip Kilby, Australian National University (ANU)

10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:45am

Tutorial 17: Dynamic Scheduling with Communication Delay

Speaker: Nikhil Bhargava, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:30pm

Tutorial 18: Planning with Human Mental States

Speaker: Stefanos Nikolaidis, University of Southern California (USC)

2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:45pm – 4:15pm

Tutorial 19: Single-Robot and Multi-Robot Path Planning

Speaker: Sven Koenig, University of Southern California (USC)

4:15pm – 4:30pm Break
4:30pm – 6:30pm Lab 3: Multi-Robot Path Planning
Lab Lead: Sven Koenig
Lab Support: Wolfgang Hönig, Jiaoyang Li

Lab 3 requirements: Please check system requirements here.