<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_496884293731504483gmail-m_4528131826496012784gmail-m_5482748634321315606gmail-m_417349372124497387gmail-m_4614845926281015477gmail-m_6041720643954058195gmail-m_-7670275615116031415gmail-m_-5817829815640557222gmail-m_5987474974647831651gmail-m_-4783362384882292594m_6961031835771836416gmail-m_3149180880964055314gmail-m_5803000941478265060gmail-m_3739772758111120207gmail-m_-4374496420704574181gmail-m_-8232014986225864746gmail-m_2118555233517397122gmail-m_-6347337869693432729gmail-m_9103776001042077600gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Monday, June 10th at 11:00 am</font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> </font></font><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:14.95px">Nancy Amato</span><span style="line-height:14.95px">, Un<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">iversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span></span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b> Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Manipulators to Intelligent CAD to Protein Folding</font></div><span style="line-height:14.95px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span><div><b>Abstract:</b><br></div>Motion planning has application in robotics, animation, virtual prototyping and training, and even for seemingly unrelated tasks such as evaluating architectural plans or simulating protein folding. Surprisingly, sampling-based planning methods have proven effective on problems from all these domains. In this talk, we provide an overview of sampling-based planning and describe some variants developed in our group, including strategies suited for manipulation<br>planning and for user interaction. For virtual prototyping, we show that in some cases a hybrid system incorporating both an automatic planner and haptic user input leads to superior results. Finally, we describe our application of sampling-based motion planners to <br>simulate molecular motions, such as protein and RNA folding.<br><br><b>Bio:</b><br>Nancy M. Amato is Head of the Department of Computer Science and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously she was on the faculty of Texas A&M, where she is currently Regents Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Engineering. Her main areas of research focus are robotics and motion planning, computational biology and geometry, and parallel and distributed computing. She received undergraduate degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics from Stanford University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois, respectively. She is Vice President for Member Activities of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2018-2021), and she served as Program Chair for the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) in 2016. She is an elected member of the CRA Board of Directors (2014-2017, 2017-2020), was Co-Chair of CRA-Women (2014-2017) and Co-Chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance (2009-2011), and has served on the Academic Advisory Council of AnitaB.org since 2015. Her honors include the CRA Habermann Award, the NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, the IEEE Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award, and Texas A&M University-level teaching (2011) and research (2018) awards. She is a Fellow of the AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.<br><br><b>Host:</b> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a><br><br><br>For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the mailing list,please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a> </div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 517</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:35 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><p class="gmail-m_496884293731504483gmail-m_4528131826496012784gmail-m_5482748634321315606gmail-m_417349372124497387gmail-m_4614845926281015477gmail-m_6041720643954058195gmail-m_-7670275615116031415gmail-m_-5817829815640557222gmail-m_5987474974647831651gmail-m_-4783362384882292594m_6961031835771836416gmail-m_3149180880964055314gmail-m_5803000941478265060gmail-m_3739772758111120207gmail-m_-4374496420704574181gmail-m_-8232014986225864746gmail-m_2118555233517397122gmail-m_-6347337869693432729gmail-m_9103776001042077600gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Monday, June 10th at 11:00 am</font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> </font></font><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%">Nancy Amato</span><span style="line-height:115%">,
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</font></span><div><b>Abstract:</b><br></div>Motion planning has application in robotics, animation, virtual prototyping and training, and even for seemingly unrelated tasks such as evaluating architectural plans or simulating protein folding. Surprisingly, sampling-based planning methods have proven effective on problems from all these domains. In this talk, we provide an overview of sampling-based planning and describe some variants developed in our group, including strategies suited for manipulation<br>planning and for user interaction. For virtual prototyping, we show that in some cases a hybrid system incorporating both an automatic planner and haptic user input leads to superior results. Finally, we describe our application of sampling-based motion planners to <br>simulate molecular motions, such as protein and RNA folding.<br><br><b>Bio:</b><br>Nancy M. Amato is Head of the Department of Computer Science and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously she was on the faculty of Texas A&M, where she is currently Regents Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Engineering. Her main areas of research focus are robotics and motion planning, computational biology and geometry, and parallel and distributed computing. She received undergraduate degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics from Stanford University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois, respectively. She is Vice President for Member Activities of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2018-2021), and she served as Program Chair for the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) in 2016. She is an elected member of the CRA Board of Directors (2014-2017, 2017-2020), was Co-Chair of CRA-Women (2014-2017) and Co-Chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance (2009-2011), and has served on the Academic Advisory Council of AnitaB.org since 2015. Her honors include the CRA Habermann Award, the NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, the IEEE Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award, and Texas A&M University-level teaching (2011) and research (2018) awards. She is a Fellow of the AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.<br><br><b>Host:</b> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a><br><br><br>For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the mailing list,please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a> </div><br class="gmail-m_496884293731504483gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_496884293731504483gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 517</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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