COLLOQUIUM - 27/03/2025
WHO: Prof. Dan Halperin, Tel Aviv University
WHEN: Thursday, March 27th 2025 at 12:00
WHERE: BUILDING 503 (Computer Science) AUDITORIUM
Title: From snapping fixtures to multi-robot coordination:
Geometry at the service of robotics
Abstract:
Robots sense, move and act in the physical world. It is therefore natural
that understanding the geometry of the problem at hand is often key to
devising an effective robotic solution. I will review several problems in
robotics and automation in whose solution geometry plays a major role.
These include designing optimized 3D printable fixtures, object rearrangement
by robot arm manipulators, and efficient coordination of the motion of large teams
of robots. As we shall see, exploiting geometric structure can, among other benefits,
lead to reducing the dimensionality of the underlying search space and in turn
to efficient solutions.
Short BIO:
Dan Halperin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University,
after which he spent three years at the Computer Science Robotics Laboratory
at Stanford University. He then joined the Department of Computer Science
at Tel Aviv University, where he is currently a full professor and for two years
was the department chair. Halperin’s main field of research is Computational Geometry
and Its Applications. Application areas he is interested in include robotics,
automated manufacturing, algorithmic motion planning, and 3D printing. A major focus
of Halperin’s work has been in research and development of robust geometric software,
in collaboration with a group of European universities and research institutes:
the CGAL project and library. Halperin was the program-committee chair/co-chair
of several conferences in computational geometry, algorithms and robotics,
including SoCG, WAFR, ESA, and ALENEX.
Halperin is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
