BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210211T021619Z UID:3A2C460A-D698-41AA-84BD-DAAE40C87586 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T130000 DESCRIPTION:by Matthias Müller\, Research Scientist\, Intelligent Systems Lab at Intel\n\nCurrent robots are either expensive or make significant co mpromises on sensory richness\, computational power\, and communication ca pabilities. We propose to leverage smartphones to equip robots with extens ive sensor suites\, powerful computational abilities\, state-of-the-art co mmunication channels\, and access to a thriving software ecosystem. We des ign a small electric vehicle that costs $50 and serves as a robot body for standard Android smartphones. We develop a software stack that allows sma rtphones to use this body for mobile operation and demonstrate that the sy stem is sufficiently powerful to support advanced robotics workloads such as person following and real-time autonomous navigation in unstructured en vironments. Controlled experiments demonstrate that the presented approach is robust across different smartphones and robot bodies.\n\nhttps://www.o penbot.org\n\nLogistics: We are doing this at noon because the author is o n Munich time. A Zoom invite will be sent to registered attendees before t he event\n\nBio\n\nMatthias graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineeri ng and Math Minor from Texas A&M University in 2011. After graduation\, he joined P+Z Engineering as an Electrical Engineer and worked for 3 years o n the development of mild-hybrid electric machines at BMW. In 2014\, he st arted his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at KAUST and rolled over into th e Ph.D. program which he completed in 2019. Matthias now works as research scientist at the [Intelligent Systems Lab at Intel](http://vladlen.info/) . His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision\, robotics a nd machine learning where he has contributed to more than 10 publications in top tier conference such as CVPR\, ECCV\, ICCV\, RSS\, CoRL\, ICRA and IROS. Matthias has extensive experience in object tracking and autonomous navigation of embodied agents such as cars and UAVs. He was recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR’18 and won the best paper award at the ECCV’18 workshop UAVision.\n\n[www.matthias.pw](http://www.matthias.pw/) \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/259532 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/259532 ORGANIZER:edward.c.epp@ieee.org SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:OpenBot: Intel Labs Project of an Open Source Robot Created Around an Android Phone URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/259532 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">by Matthi as M&uuml\;ller\, Research Scientist\, Intelligent Systems Lab at Intel</s pan></h2>\n<p>Current robots are either expensive or make significant comp romises on sensory richness\, computational power\, and communication capa bilities. We propose to leverage smartphones to equip robots with extensiv e sensor suites\, powerful computational abilities\, state-of-the-art comm unication channels\, and access to a thriving software ecosystem. We desig n a small electric vehicle that costs $50 and serves as a robot body for s tandard Android smartphones. We develop a software stack that allows smart phones to use this body for mobile operation and demonstrate that the syst em is sufficiently powerful to support advanced robotics workloads such as person following and real-time autonomous navigation in unstructured envi ronments. Controlled experiments demonstrate that the presented approach i s robust across different smartphones and robot bodies.</p>\n<p><a href="h ttps://www.openbot.org">https://www.openbot.org</a></p>\n<p>Logistics: We are doing this at noon because the author is on Munich time. A Zoom invite will be sent to registered attendees before the event</p>\n<p>Bio</p>\n<p >Matthias graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Math Minor from Texas A&amp\;M University in 2011. After graduation\, he joined P+Z E ngineering as an Electrical Engineer and worked for 3 years on the develop ment of mild-hybrid electric machines at BMW. In 2014\, he started his M.S c. in Electrical Engineering at KAUST and rolled over into the Ph.D. progr am which he completed in 2019. Matthias now works as research scientist at the <a href="http://vladlen.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intelli gent Systems Lab at Intel</a>. His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision\, robotics and machine learning where he has contributed to more than 10 publications in top tier conference such as CVPR\, ECCV\, ICCV\, RSS\, CoRL\, ICRA and IROS. Matthias has extensive experience in ob ject tracking and autonomous navigation of embodied agents such as cars an d UAVs. He was recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR&rsquo\;18 an d won the best paper award at the ECCV&rsquo\;18 workshop UAVision.</p>\n< h3><a href="http://www.matthias.pw/">www.matthias.pw</a></h3>\n<p>&nbsp\;< /p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR