The program outline is shown below
| 08:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Field Robotics 1 (Nieto) | Perception (Bidaud) | Field Robotics 2 (Christensen) | Prototyping (Cousins) | |
| 10:15 | Break | Break | Break | Break | |
| 10:45 | Aerial Robotics (Kumar) | Grasping (Chirikjian) | Soft Robotics (Khatib) | Multi-Robot Systems | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Box Lunch | Lunch | |
| 01:30 | Human-Robot Inter. (Demircan) | Panel (Khatib) | Bus trip – Los Alamos | Wrap-up | |
| 03:00 | Break | Break | Museum | ||
| 03:30 | Maritime Robotics (Ang) | Planning (Bekris) | Hike Pueblo Loop Trail | ||
| 04:45 | BBQ & | ||||
| 06:30 | Welcome | Sun Set Train Ride | Dinner | Bus return | |
| 08:30 | Reception | Return | @ La Fonda Video Session / Refreshments |
Detailed Program: (Program booklet)
| SUNDAY | ||
| 6:30 PM | Reception @ La Fonda | |
| 8:30 PM | End | |
| MONDAY | ||
| 09:00 | FIeld Robotic 1 (C. Nieto-Granda) | |
| 09:00 | A Real-To-Sim-To-Real Approach To Enhance Robotic System Characterization | David Widhalm*, Junaed Sattar |
| 09:15 | Characterizing Robot-Ground Interactions for Autonomous Lunar Construction | Rachel Holladay*, Shivangi Misra, Mason Mitchell, Akshay Ram Panyam, Erica Pauline Santos, J. Diego Caporale, shipeng liu, Yifeng Zhang, John Ruck, Douglas Jerolmack, Feifei Qian, Mark Yim, Cynthia Sung |
| 09:30 | Bridging Fiction and Reality: Evaluating the Feasibility of Adaptive Gaits Inspired by TARS from Interstellar | Aditya Sripada |
| 09:45 | AnyTraverse: An off-road traversability framework with VLM and human operator in the loop | Sattwik Sahu, Agamdeep Singh, Karthik Nambiar*, Srikanth Saripalli, Sujit PB |
| 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Aerial Robotics (V. Kumar) | |
| 10:45 | Decentralized Uncertainty-Aware Active Search with a Team of Aerial Robots | Wennie Tabib*, John Stecklein, Caleb McDowell, Kshitij Goel, Felix Jonathan, Abhishek Rathod, Meghan Kokoski, edsel burkholder, Brian Wallace, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, Nikhil Angad Bakshi, Tejus Gupta, Norman Papernick, David Guttendorf, Erik Kahn, Jessica Kasemer, Jesse Holdaway, Jeff Schneider |
| 11:00 | Using Controlled Repeatable Wind Conditions to Evaluate Impacts on UAS Performance | Adam Norton*, Brendan Donoghue, Peter Gavriel |
| 11:15 | Evaluating Accuracy of 3D Indoor Mapping by UAS for First Responder Applications | Adam Norton*, Brendan Donoghue, Alex Fraley, Peter Gavriel, Katherine Hall, Stephanie Layman, Terese Manley, Roger Powers, Kamel Saidi, David Schmitt, Ann-Marie Virts |
| 11:30 | Online Adaptation for Flying Quadrotors in Tight Formations | Pei-An Hsieh*, Kong Yao Chee, M. Ani Hsieh |
| 11:45 | Discusssion | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 01:30 | Human-Robot Interaction (E. Demircan) | |
| 01:30 | HRIBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Real-Time Human Perception in Human-Robot Interaction | Zhonghao Shi*, Enyu Zhao, Nathaniel Dennler, Jingzhen Wang, Xinyang Xu, Kaleen Shrestha, Daniel Seita, Maja Mataric |
| 01:45 | Robotic Rehabilitation with Intelligent and Interactive Feedback Interfaces | Emel Demircan*, Hsiang-Ling Teng, Willbur Wu |
| 02:00 | The Curious Robot: Generalized Affordance Reasoning with Physics-Based and LLM-Enhanced Imagination | Ceng Zhang*, Xin Meng, Dongchen Qi, Xiaoli Wang, Gregory Chirikjian |
| 02:15 | Accounting for Context: Generating Explanations for Robot Failures with Large Language Models | Giordano Arcieri, Gregory LeMasurier*, Holly Yanco |
| 02:30 | Multi-prioritized torque based control framework with Cartesian and Joints Constraints and its medical robotics application | Giampiero Esposito, VINCENZO SCHETTINO, Vito Daniele Perfetta, Paolino De Risi*, Fanny Ficuciello |
| 02:45 | Discussion | |
| 03:00 | Break | |
| 03:30 | Marine Robotics (M. Ang) | |
| 03:30 | Towards Minimally Invasive Monitoring of Marine Animals with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Quantifying and Mitigating Disturbance | Levi Cai*, Youenn Jézéquel, T. Aran Mooney, Yogesh Girdhar |
| 03:45 | Pyquaticus: A Sim-to-Real Pipeline for Learning in Multi-Agent Maritime Strategy Games | Peter Crowley*, Brendan Long, Andrew Schoer, Zachary Serlin, Makai Mann, Tyler Gonsalves, John Kliem, Calin Belta |
| 04:00 | BµBL: A Miniature Robotic Explorer for Underwater Discovery | Pascal Spino*, Daniela Rus |
| 04:15 | Real-time Remote Tracking and Autonomous Planning for Whale Rendezvous using Robots | Ninad Jadhav*, Sushmita Bhattacharya, Hammad Izhar, Karen Li, Robert Wood, Stephanie Gil |
| 04:30 | Discussion | |
| 04:45 | Break / walk to restaurant | |
| 05:30 | BBQ (Whole Hog) | |
| 06:45 | Train w. Dessert and Sunset Refreshments | |
| TUESDAY | ||
| 09:00 | Perception (P. Bidaud) | |
| 09:00 | MOSU: Autonomous Long-range Robot Navigation with Multi-modal Perception and On-road Scene Understanding | Jing Liang*, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun Mudiyanselage, Daeun Song, Dinesh Manocha |
| 09:15 | Active Illumination Control in Low-Light Environments using NightHawk | Yash Turkar*, Youngjin Kim, Karthik Dantu |
| 09:30 | SparseDriveRadar: Leveraging Attention Layers and Sparse Representation for Camera-Radar Object Detection and Mapping | Christina Dao Wen Lee*, Jiawei Sun, Li Jianghao, Chengran Yuan, Zefan Huang, Marcelo H Ang Jr |
| 09:45 | Box Pose and Shape Estimation and Domain Adaptation for Large-Scale Warehouse Automation | Xihang Yu*, Rajat Talak, Jingnan Shi, Ulrich Viereck, Igor Gilitschenski, Luca Carlone |
| 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Grasping (G. Chirikjian) | |
| 10:45 | OVAL-Grasp: Open-Vocabulary Affordance Localization for Task Oriented Grasping | Edmond Tong*, Advaith Balaji, Anthony Opipari, Stanley Lewis, Zhen Zeng, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins |
| 11:00 | DexKit: A Hardware Platform for Multi-Finger Dexterous Robotics | Jonathan King, Harnoor Ahluwalia, Iqui Balam Heredia-Marin, Kaylan McClary, Mark Baratz, Edward Colgate, Jonathan Clark, Melisa Orta Martinez, Nancy S Pollard* |
| 11:15 | The MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors | Hanyang Zhou*,HAOZHE LOU,Wenhao Liu,Enyu Zhao,YUE WANG,Daniel Seita |
| 11:30 | Friction Estimation for In-Hand Planar Motion | Gabriel Arslan Waltersson*, Yiannis Karayiannidis |
| 11:45 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 01:30 | Panel Discussion (O. Khatib) – Rus, Kumar, Bekris, Holliday, Kumar, Christensen – The Role of Experimental Robotics in a time of Generative AI | |
| 03:00 | Break | |
| 03:30 | Planning (K. Bekris) | |
| 03:30 | Learning to Optimize Package Picking for Large-Scale, Real-World Robot Induction | Shuai Li*, Azarakhsh Keipour, Sicong Zhao, Srinath Rajagopalan, Swan Charles, Kostas E. Bekris |
| 03:45 | Robust Implementation of The Artificial Potential Field | William Chong, Oussama Khatib |
| 04:00 | Risk-aware MPC Planning for Unmanned Ground Vehicles | Frank Gonzalez*, Varun Murali, Fernando Cladera, Camillo Jose Taylor, Vijay Kumar |
| 04:15 | Incorporating Stochastic Models of Controller Behavior into Kinodynamic Efficiently Adaptive State Lattices for Mobile Robot Motion Planning in Off-Road Environments | Eric Damm*, Eli Lancaster, Felix Sanchez, Kiana Bronder, Jason M. Gregory, Thomas Howard |
| 04:30 | Trailblazer: Learning offroad costmaps for long range planning | Kasi Viswanath*, Felix A. Sanchez, Jason M. Gregory, Srikanth Saripalli |
| 04:45 | Discussion | |
| 05:00 | ISER 2027 and then free time | |
| 06:30 | Dinner / Reception @ La Fonda | |
| 08:30 | Video session w. refreshments | |
| WEDNESDAY | ||
| 09:00 | Field Robotic 2 (H. Christensen) | |
| 09:00 | Temporally-Sampled Efficiently Adaptive State Lattices for Autonomous Ground Robot Navigation in Partially Observed Environments | Ashwin Menon*, Eric Damm, Eli Lancaster, Felix Sanchez, Jason M. Gregory, Thomas Howard |
| 09:15 | Evaluating Tools for Collective Soil Excavation: Challenges and Insights | Sean Even, Omer Kurkutlu, Yasemin OZKAN-AYDIN |
| 09:30 | Real-Time Online Mapping for Autonomous Driving : Addressing Sensor Generalization and Dynamic Map Updates in Campus Environments | Zihan Zhang*, Abhijit Ravichandran, Pragnya Korti, Luobin Wang, Henrik Iskov Christensen |
| 09:45 | From Zero to High-Speed Racing: An Autonomous Racing Stack | Hassan Jardali*, Durgakant Pushp, Youwei Yu, Mahmoud Ali, Ihab S. Mohamed, Alejandro Murillo-González, Md. Al-Masrur Khan, Lantao Liu |
| 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Soft Robotics (O. Khatib) | |
| 10:45 | Swimming Dynamics of a Soft Flagellated Robot in Low Reynolds Number Environment | Elif Pinar Aydin, Nnamdi Chikere, Vivek Attupuram, Yasemin OZKAN-AYDIN* |
| 11:00 | Fluidically Innervated Lattices Make Versatile and Durable Tactile Sensors | Annan Zhang*, Miguel Flores-Acton, Andy Yu, Anshul Gupta, Maggie Yao, Daniela Rus |
| 11:15 | Liebau Pumping Enables Valveless Swimmer Robot | Gabriel Unger*, Saheli Patel, Benjamin Kozyak, Jordan Raney, Cynthia Sung |
| 11:30 | HexaFlex: Design and Testing of a Hexapod with a Flexible Origami-Inspired Spine | Daniel Moyer, Gabrielle Conard*, Robin Hall, Dongquan Ji, Yanbo Hua, ZeHai Li, Jiaming Du, ChenHan Guan, Cagdas Onal |
| 11:45 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Departure by Bus for Los Alamos | |
| Bradbury Science Museum Visit / Bathtub Row | ||
| Hike Pueblo Loop Trail | ||
| 06:30 | Return to hotel / evening is open | |
| THURSDAY | ||
| 09:00 | Prototyping (S. Cousins) | |
| 09:00 | Light-Weight Autonomous Driving Scooter for Urban Micro-Mobility | Chenghao Li*, Tong Shen, Seth Farrell, Henrik Christensen |
| 09:15 | Unraveling the Sim-to-Real Gaps: Evaluating Generalized Force Model Fine-Tuning for Bipedal Robots | Junhyeok Rui Cha, Woohyun Cha, Jaeyong Shin, Jaeheung Park |
| 09:30 | Maestro: High-Performance, Compact, Lightweight, and Singularity-Free Robot Arm | Chinmay Devmalya*, Boyeon Kim, Oussama Khatib |
| 09:45 | MiniUGV2: A Compact UAV-Deployable Tracked Ground Vehicle with Manipulation Capabilities | Durgakant Pushp*, Swapnil Kalhapure, Lantao Liu |
| 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Multi-Robot Systems (S. Gil) | |
| 10:45 | TRUSSES – Multi robot collaborative experimental platform | Akshay Ram Panyam*, Erica Pauline Santos, Rachel Holladay, Mason Mitchell, J. Diego Caporale, Shivangi Misra, Cynthia Sung, Mark Yim |
| 11:00 | Decentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring | Makram Chahine*, William Yang, Alaa Maalouf, Justin Siriska, Ninad Jadhav, Daniel Vogt, Stephanie Gil, Robert Wood, Daniela Rus |
| 11:15 | Hierarchical Uncertainty-Aware Multiagent Collaborative Planning System | Martina Stadler, Samuel Prentice, Harel Biggie*, Yasmin Veys, Jacob Arkin, Travis Manderson, Akila Saravanan, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Long Quang, Ethan Stump, Chuchu Fan, Luca Carlone, Jonathan How, Nicholas Roy |
| 11:30 | Language-Grounded Hierarchical Planning and Execution with Multi-Robot 3D Scene Graphs | Jared Strader*, Aaron Ray, Jacob Arkin, Mason B. Peterson, Yun Chang, Nathan Hughes, Christopher Bradley, Yixuan Jia, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Chuchu Fan, Luca Carlone, Jonathan How, Nicholas Roy |
| 11:45 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 01:30 | Wrap-up / farewell | |
