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A reminder that the RSVP deadline for the Spring 1995 Symposium of the
Los Angeles Area Robotics & Automation Group is this Wednesday, April
26.  The Symposium will be held at UCLA on Friday, April 28 and
will feature talks and demonstrations in the areas of microscale
robotics, space robotics, mobile robots and manufacturing.  Please
RSVP back to me as soon as possible.  Below is the latest schedule for
the Symposium.

David

David Lee                              e-mail: david@ime.ucla.edu
Group Coordinator                              
Los Angeles Area Robotics & Automation Group

UCLA Integrated Manufacturing         ATTmail: (310) 206-1840 (office)
38-137 Engineering IV                          (310) 206-2302 (fax)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597                     (310) 839-0373 (home)
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              Los Angeles Area Robotics and Automation Group
                           Spring 1995 Symposium
                                     
                          Friday, April 28, 1995
                   University of California, Los Angeles
                                     
                                  Theme:
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               Robotics and Automation: The Next Generation

                                     
                             Current Schedule:
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    9:00       Registration, Continental Breakfast
    9:25       Welcome: H. Thomas Hahn, UCLA IME Program Executive Director
    9:30-3:30  Talks and Video Presentations:
      9:30      "Creating MEMS Components for Microrobots Using Standard
                 Fabrication Processes," Kris Pister, Brett Warneke,
                 Patrick Chu & Richard Yeh, UCLA
     10:00      "Micro Electro Mechanical Systems," Peter Will, USC ISI
     10:15      "Molecular Robotics," Ari Requicha, USC

   10:30-10:45 Break

     10:45      "Sensor Based Planning: The Hierarchical Generalized 
                 Voronoi Graph," Howie Choset & Joel Burdick, Caltech
     11:00      "Robotics for Service," K. G. Engelhardt, NASA FWRTTC
     11:15      "Distributed Robotic Systems: Concepts, Problems,
                 Approaches, Solutions," Jing Wang, UCR
     11:30      "Performance Evaluation of Planetary Rover Navigation 
                 Algorithms," Erann Gat, JPL
     11:45      "Comparative Evaluation of Walking and Legged Robots
                 in a Simulated Mars Environment," Gaurav Sukhatme & 
                 George Bekey, USC

   12:00-1:00  Lunch

     1:00       "Flying Machines," Tony Lewis, UCLA
     1:15       "Autonomous Negotiation of Freeway Traffic,"
                 Zvi Shiller, UCLA
     1:30       "An Overview of Autonomous Robotics Research at USC,"
                 George Bekey, USC
     1:45       "Internet-Accessible Robot Colonies," Tony Lewis, UCLA
     2:00       "Current Efforts in Space Robotics," Carl Ruoff, JPL

    2:15-2:30  Break

     2:30       "The Virtual Manufacturing Paradigm in Product
                 Development," David Lee, UCLA
     2:45       "Just Enough Info: A New Paradigm for Production
                 Scheduling in a Manufacturing Supply Network," 
                 Dave Grossman, USC ISI
     3:00       "A Complete Algorithm for Modular Fixturing,"
                 Ken Goldberg, USC
     3:15       "An Application of State Space Search Algorithm for
                 Process Sequencing in Process Planning,"
                 Dusan Sormaz & Behrokh Khoshnevis, USC

    3:30-5:30  Lab Tours: Hardware and Software Demonstrations
                Tony Lewis: Commotion Laboratory
                Zvi Shiller: Robotics & Automation Laboratory
                Kris Pister & Richard Yeh: UCLA MEMS Laboratory


                               Reservations:
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               Please contact David Lee <david@ime.ucla.edu> 
                    (310-206-1840) by Wednesday, April 26.

                      The Los Angeles Area Robotics and Automation Group
    c/o UCLA Integrated Manufacturing Engineering  38-137 Engineering IV
                                      Los Angeles, California 90095-1597
           (310) 206-1840  (310) 206-2302 (fax)  la-ragroup@ime.ucla.edu