talks
| title | venue |
|---|---|
| human/machine interaction games | Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2024 |
| Why can animals outrun robots? | Dynamic Walking Meeting, Pensacola, FL, USA, 2024 |
| human/machine interaction is a sensorimotor game | Dynamic Walking Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 2022 |
| Sensorimotor games: human/machine collaborative learning and control | Plenary at Motor Learning and Motor Control, Nov 2021 |
| On infinitesimal contraction analysis for tracking through contact-rich dynamics | IROS Workshop on Impact-Aware Robotics, Oct 2021 |
| Control theory with humans “in the loop” | University of Washington Summer Institute for Mathematics (SIMUW), Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 2021 |
| Sensorimotor games: human/machine collaborative learning and control | Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Feb 2021 |
| Toward telelocomotion: contact-rich robot dynamics and human sensorimotor control | People and Robots Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Oct 2020 ECE Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Oct 2020 Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Sep 2020 Robotics Institute Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Jan 2020 Controls Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Oct 2019 Neuroscience and Robotics Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, March 2019 Robotics Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, March 2019 NVIDIA Robotics Research Lab, Seattle, WA, USA, April 2019 |
| Why (or, more specifically, when) do feedforward inputs yield stable behaviors? (chalk talk) (video) | Dynamic Walking Meeting, Pensacola, FL, USA, 2018 |
| Provably-safe interventions for Human-Cyber-Physical Systems (HCPS) | NSF CPS PI Meeting, Arlington, VA, USA, 2017 |
| Predictive dynamical models for human sensorimotor control of teleoperated robots | UWIN seminar series, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 2017 |
| Toward experimental validation of a model for human sensorimotor learning and control in teleoperation | SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, Anaheim, CA, USA, 2017 |
| Smoothing contact-rich dynamics with morphological computation | Physics of Living Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, February 2017 Dynamics and Controls Seminar, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2017 GRASP Lab Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, April 2017 |
| Predictive dynamical models for intermittent contact | IEEE SIMPAR, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016 |
| Toward Telelocomotion | Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, 2016 |
| A First Course in Robotics | University of Washington Summer Institute for Mathematics (SIMUW), Seattle, WA, USA, 2016 |
| Humans & Robots | Washington Aerospace Scholars, Seattle, WA, USA, 2016 |
| Assessing stability and controllability of multi-legged gaits | Dynamic Walking, YMCA Camp Ohiyesa, Holly, MI, USA, 2016 |
| Towards provably-safe interventions for Human-Cyber-Physical Systems | in honor of Shankar’s 60th, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2016 |
| Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a happy and productive life | Mary Gates Scholars Welcome Reception, Seattle, WA, USA, 2016 |
| Humans & Robots | University of Washington MathDay, Seattle, WA, USA, 2016, 2017, 2018 |
| Predictive dynamical models for sensorimotor control | UWIN Neural Computation and Engineering Connection, Seattle, WA, USA, 2016 |
| Predictive dynamical models for legged locomotion | NSF RCN Winter Workshop on Neuromechanics and Dynamics of Locomotion, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2016 |
| Predictive dynamical models for sensorimotor control | UW EE Colloquium, Seattle, WA, USA, 2015 |
| Dynamic Inverse Models in Human-Cyber-Physical Systems | ONR Science of Autonomy Workshop, Arlington, VA, USA, 2015 |
| Near-simultaneous footfalls lend stability to multi-legged gaits (abstract) | Dynamic Walking, Columbus, OH, USA, 2015 |
| Parsimonious predictive models for legged locomotion | ICRA Workshop on Robotics-Inspired Biology (and Bio-Inspired Robotics), Seattle, WA, USA, 2015 |
| Dynamic Inverse Models in Cyber-Human Systems | Kavli Futures Workshop on Neuroscience-Inspired Computing, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2015 |
| Metrization, Simulation, and First-Order Approximation for Networked CPS | NSF CPS-FORCES Review Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2014 |
| Hybrid Models for Dynamic and Dexterous Robots (abstract) | UW CSE Robotics Colloquium, Seattle, WA, USA, 2014 |
| Adaptive piecewise-affine inverse modeling of hybrid dynamical systems | IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 |
| Reduction and Identification for Models of Locomotion: an Emerging Systems Theory for Neuromechanics (video) (abstract) | Electrical Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, February 2014 Mechanical Engineering & Institute for Systems Research at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, February & March 2014 Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, February 2014 Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2014 Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, March 2014 |
| Optimization for models of legged locomotion: parameter estimation, gait synthesis, and experiment design (abstract) | Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, TX, USA, 2014 |
| Bio-Inspired Reduction and Robustness of Dynamic Robot Gaits | University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, 2013 |
| Reduction and Identification for Hybrid Dynamical Models of Terrestrial Locomotion | SPIE Conference on Defense, Security, and Sensing (DSS), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2013 Army Research Labs (ARL), Adelphi, MD, USA, 2013 |
| From Templates to Anchors: Exact and Approximate Reduction in Models of Legged Locomotion (abstract) | Dynamic Walking, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2013 |
| Using reduced—order models to study dynamic legged locomotion: Parameter identification and model validation (abstract) | Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2013 |
| Reduction and Robustness via Intermittent Contact | Workshop: Control Systems in the Open World, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, HI, USA, 2012 |
| Parameter Identification Near Periodic Orbits of Hybrid Dynamical Systems | IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SysID), Brussels, Belgium, 2012 |
| Reduction and Identification for Hybrid Dynamical Models of Terrestrial Locomotion | Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, 2011 University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Washington, 2012 SRI International, University of Michigan, 2013 |
| Dimension Reduction Near Periodic Orbits of Hybrid Systems | IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / European Control Conference (CDC/ECC) Orlando, FL, USA, 2011 |
| On State Estimation for Hybrid Abstractions of Legged Locomotion | Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), Stockholm, Sweden, 2010 |
| A First Course in Robotics | University of Washington Summer Institute for Mathematics (SIMUW), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 |
| Robots that run, climb, flap, and swim | University of Washington MathDay, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (plenary – ‘‘1000+ attendees!’’) |
| Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) | University of Washington Summer Institute for Mathematics (SIMUW), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2007, 2008 |
| Heterogeneous Leg Stiffness and Roll in Dynamic Running | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Rome, Italy, 2007 |
| Pull Yourself Together: Creating Robots that Self-Assemble | University of Washington NASA Space Grant Reception, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2007 |