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by Finn Linstrom 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

Hi Andre/CDMRG management, I am departing UTS soon and will lose access to my .uts.edu.au email but would like to stay in the loop and attend when possible. Could you add my personal email to the list that receives these emails? My email is finn.linstrom9(a)gmail.com Many thanks, Finn Linstrom UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CDMRG Cancelled
by Andre Nunez 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hi everyone, Given that a lot of people will be away next week and probably the week after, let's (tentatively) reconvene on the 9th of October. I'll send out an email to update everyone in case anything changes.

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25 September
by Andre Nunez 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm, CB11.09.215 Kosta will be presenting "Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Rollout and Policy Iteration for POMDP With Application to Multirobot Problems" by Bhattacharya et al. The paper is attached. Afterwards, let's read through Issues 4-7 (July, August, October) of Volume 48 of Autonomous Robots (there's very few papers in each issue): * https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/M5LsCnx1jnilY8o3LC9fYCJqHHu?domain=l… * https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/IahCCoV1kpfl0OzPGCzhgCpBlTg?domain=l… * https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1m2ZCp81lrtQBY8OLUYi7CGOYTx?domain=l… CDMRG Stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/onBmCq71mwfLoq5krcEs8CEXRU7?domain=d… See you all there!

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September 18
by Andre Nunez 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Hi everyone, This week will be journal only. Tomorrow at 3pm CB11.09.215 let's read through papers 101-150 of Transactions on Robotics - https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/jsr5Cr81nytwMN424h7foC42TAP?domain=i… CDMRG Stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/QYJiCvl1rKiO1BrArhXh8CQnS7M?domain=d… See you all there!

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No CDMRG this week
by Andre Nunez 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi everyone, Since the ICRA deadline is this week and quite a few people are busy, we won't be running CDMRG. See you next week!

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September 4
by Andre Nunez 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm, CB11.09.215, Felix will be presenting: * Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character by Grandia et al - https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ye9eCNLJyQUVx515pSmfpCyOw4a?domain=l… [https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ypv-COMKzVT5Xrorkuvh8CGcfG-?domain=l…]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ye9eCNLJyQUVx515pSmfpCyOw4a?domain=l…> Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character - Disney Research<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ye9eCNLJyQUVx515pSmfpCyOw4a?domain=l…> la.disneyresearch.com * Interactive design of stylized walking gaits for robotic characters by Hopkins et al - https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Sim9CP7LAXfvmAqAns1i6CxRNoB?domain=l… [https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ypv-COMKzVT5Xrorkuvh8CGcfG-?domain=l…]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Sim9CP7LAXfvmAqAns1i6CxRNoB?domain=l…> Interactive Design of Stylized Walking Gaits for Robotic Characters - Disney Research<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Sim9CP7LAXfvmAqAns1i6CxRNoB?domain=l…> la.disneyresearch.com Please note that we will be starting at 3:05pm as we need to wrap up by 4pm this week, meaning there is no reading scheduled for this week. See you all there!

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28 August
by Andre Nunez 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Hi everyone, Tomorrow at 3pm, CB11.09.215, I will be giving a practice run of my CA3. Afterwards, let's read through Volume 9 Issue 10 of Robotics and Automation Letters - https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/G5-TCD1vlpTjll4DoUWf1uja7rA?domain=i… CDMRG Stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/tblJCE8wmrt155EkliwhPu7g1x2?domain=d… See you there!

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Fw: RI Seminar : Professor Fabio Ramos
by Andre Nunez 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hi all, Sorry for the spam. I'm just forwarding the invite to Fabio Ramos' talk in case anyone doesn't have the details. ________________________________ From: Zoe Giacomini <Zoe.Giacomini(a)uts.edu.au> on behalf of MME Centre Operations <mme.centreops(a)uts.edu.au> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2024 2:18 PM Cc: UTSRI_mail <utsri_mail(a)uts.edu.au> Subject: RI Seminar : Professor Fabio Ramos When: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 3:15 PM-4:30 PM. Where: Seminar Room CB11.06.408; https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/UcSwCXLW2mUB22XO5u6fguWYUu7?domain=u… Hello, Please join us in person or online for a seminar by Professor Fabio Ramos, more information below. In-Person: Seminar Room CB11.06.408 Hybrid: Zoom Meeting ID: 864 8484 2636 Please note in-person attendance is recommended as room is not hybrid and will be streamed via a laptop link. Thank You! Probabilistic Robotics 2.0: Leveraging Differentiability and Parallelism for Diversity in Planning and Perception under Uncertainty Professor Fabio Ramos NVIDIA/ University of Sydney Abstract: Much has been said about the need for diversity in robotics. From diverse datasets for training large vision-action models to diverse planners that can infer multi-modal trajectories, the word diversity has been a common theme in the last few years of robotics research. But how do we define or even measure diversity in robotics? In this talk, I will provide a probabilistic interpretation for diversity and show that modern tools designed for deep learning such as differentiable programming languages and parallel computation in GPUs can be conveniently utilized for large-scale probabilistic inference that naturally captures the notion of diversity. Specifically, I will describe a powerful nonparametric inference method that uses both differentiability and parallelism to provide nonparametric posterior approximations for problems such as model predictive control, motion planning, state estimation, simulator parameter estimation and more. Finally, I will define diversity in trajectory planning in terms of a new mathematical tool–signature transforms–and how it can lead to novel planning methods in the future. Bio: Fabio Ramos is a Professor in robotics and machine learning at the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney and a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA. He received the BSc and MSc degrees in Mechatronics Engineering at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the PhD degree at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on statistical machine learning techniques for large-scale Bayesian inference and decision making with applications in robotics, mining, environmental monitoring and healthcare. Between 2008 and 2011 he led the research team that designed the first autonomous open-pit iron mine in the world. He has over 150 peer-review publications and received Best Paper Awards and Student Best Paper Awards at several conferences including International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), and Robotics Science and Systems (RSS).

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No CDMRG this week
by Andre Nunez 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hi everyone, Given that Fabio Ramos is giving a talk at UTS during our scheduled meeting time this week, I propose that we cancel CDMRG this week. I will give a practice run of my CA3 the following Wednesday.

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August 14
by Andre Nunez 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm at CB11.09.215, Mason will be giving a talk on "Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character" by Grandia et al. , presented at RSS 2024 (Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character - Disney Research<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/gi8rCr81nytwPwzZ6f7f4u4-uWT?domain=l…>). Afterwards, let's read through the latest issue of Science Robotics, Volume 9 Issue 92 Jul 2024, https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/j6csCvl1rKiOpOP84UXh9uQa0XO?domain=s… CDMRG Stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/DXXJCwV1vMf0J04xPt9iMuJlMGB?domain=d… See you all there!

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