October 1st, 2023        
Time Speaker Organization Title  
08:15 - 08:30 Organizers      
08:30 - 09:00 Tomomichi Sugihara OMRON Corporation Reference-based vs Reference-free Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot  
09:00 - 09:30 Shi Fan
Annan Tang
ETH Zurich
The University of Tokyo
Reference-based vs Reference-free Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot  
09:30 - 10:00 Bike Zhang UC Berkely Learning Humanoid Locomotion with Transformers  
10:00 - 11:00   Coffee Break    
11:00 - 11:30 Carlos Mastalli Heriot-Watt University Agile and perceptive locomotion in legged robots: a top-down approach  
11:30 - 12:00 Sven Behnke
Grzegorz Ficht
University of Bonn Direct Centroidal Control for Balanced Humanoid Locomotion  
12:00-12:30   Summary & Panel Discussion    
12:30-13:30   Lunch    
13:30 - 14:00 Johannes Englsberger German Aerospace Center (DLR) Centroidal Angular Momentum Approximation and Control for humanoid locomotion  
14:00 - 14:30 Serena Ivaldi The National Institute for Research
in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA)
Anticipatory Control: Using Prediction of Intended Movement for Control  
14:30 - 15:00 Yan Gu Purdue University Modeling, estimation, and control of humanoid robot locomotion in non-inertial environments  
15:00 - 16:00   Coffee Break & Outreach Event    
         
16:00 - 16:30 Luis Sentis University of Texas at Austin From Model-Based Whole-Body Control to Humanoid Legged Manipulation using ML  
16:30 - 17:00 Alphonsus Antwi Adu-Bredu
(remote)
University of Michigan Exploring Kinodynamic Fabrics for Fast, Reactive Whole-Body Control of Underactuated Humanoid Robots  
17:00-17:30   Summary & Panel discussion