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Albert P. Pisano, Dean16 December 2015

Building a Robotics HubIn San Diego

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World-Class Public Engineering School

1,600 Engineers Enter theWorkforce Each Year

$150M in Annual Research Funding Fuel Discoveries

20-30 Inventions Licensed by Spin-Outs or Corporate Partners per Year

Engineering Leadership, Talent and Technology

Look, Think and Act as a Top 10 Engineering School

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UC San Diego: World-Class University

• We Are:• Student-centered• Research-focused• Service-oriented • Public university

• One of the top 15 research universities worldwide.

• #7 Among Public Engineering Schools in the U.S.• U.S. News ranking of Best Global Universities, 2014

• Largest Engineering School in California

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PERSONALIZED,PRECISIONMEDICINE

WithHealth Sciences

Initiatives to Address Grand Challenges

CONTEXTUALROBOTICSFOR ASSISTEDLIVING

WithSocial Sciences

MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLEENERGY

With Physical Sciences

DATA ANALTYICS AND SECURITYFOR INTERNET OF THINGS

With Physical Sciences

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Launched October 30, 2015Contextual Robotics Institute

Industry Partners Engaged: Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, Leidos, IBM, Toyota, WowWee, Intel

Two International Forums• October 2014• October 2015

42 Faculty Participating• $40M-$50M in robotics research• $10m/year

National Search for Institute Director, Three Additional Faculty Hires

To Build: Core Labs, Joint Curricula, Integrative Research Projects

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Contextual Robotics Institute

Mission: Advance leading edge research in contextual robotic systems and build a talent and innovation pipeline to fuel the emerging robotics industry sector.

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Recent Contextual Robotics ForumMeet world leaders developing ubiquitous consumer robotics for the benefit of society.

Connect with San Diego's robotics community.

Explore the technology showcase.

Andrea ChibaCognitive Sciences Prof.UC San Diego

Todd ColemanBioengineering Prof.UC San Diego

Rob HighVP & CTO, Watson SolutionsIBM Software Group

Todd HyltonExecutive Vice PresidentBrain Corporation

Paolo Pirjanian Jonathan SorgerSenior Director of Medical ResearchIntuitive Surgical

Mohan TrivediElectrical Engineering Prof.UC San Diego

Yulun WangChairman & CEOIn Touch Health

Matt Grob CTOQualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Speakers Remarks

Albert P. PisanoDeanJacobs School of Engineering

Tom PieronekVP Basic ResearchNorthrop Grumman

Carol PaddenDeanSocial Sciences

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“We aim to grow San Diego into a world-class robotics hub. In addition to our research efforts, we are developing cross-disciplinary education programs, focusing on industry partnerships and strengthening our entrepreneurship programs. These efforts will converge in common lab spaces where we will inspire and prepare tomorrow’s robotics workforce.”

Albert P. PisanoDean, Jacobs School of Engineering

Robotics Hub

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Why San Diego?Southern California is to robotics as the

Bay Area is to computers

San Diego: • High tech region

• Bioengineering and biomedical companies• Cybersecurity• Wireless

• Top ranked Universities and Colleges• Partnerships between Academia, Industry,

Local Government• Cali-Baja industrial relationships and

opportunities• Entrepreneurs tell us so: ~70 robotics related

companies in Southern California

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Why UC San Diego?

• Wide range of robotics expertise• Wide range of players to generate

ecosystems for these fields• Neutral, open exchange of ideas• Investing in new faculty, laboratories• Committed to obtaining/expanding

robotics research and research partners• Produces entrepreneurs of the future

Leadership/Talent/Technology

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Jacobs School of Engineering Robotics Research Areas

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Medical RoboticsDesigning surgical robotic systems for robot-assisted, image-guided surgery

Flexible RoboticsDesign and control of snake-like robots for medicine, manufacturing, military

Biomimetic ActuatorsArtificial muscles design, modeling and control for active prostheses and orthoses

Medical and Flexible Robotics

Dexterous, snake-like robot for navigating within the vessels of the human body for minimally-invasive surgery

Michael Yip Electrical and Computer Engineering: Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab

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Goal: Real-time classification of 1,000,000 image windows per secondEfficient classifiers that optimize trade-off between object detection accuracy and speed

ApplicationsRobotics, smart vehicles, state of the art pedestrian detection

MethodsCascades of deep learning classifiers learned with boosting

Real-time Object Recognition

Video: real-time pedestrian detection

Nuno Vasconcelos Electrical and Computer Engineering: Statistical Visual Computing Lab

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Hundreds of Sensor Balloons• communicate via cellphones • release into a developing hurricane; self-

distribute; and track the storm over several days while sending data back to forecasting centers

Robotics Controls Challenges • Balloons steer by using buoyancy control,

leveraging winds’ strong stratification

Real-time environmental info

Environmental Sensing Swarms

Thomas Bewley Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering: UCSD Flow Controls Lab

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iRat CollaborationCognitive scientists + bioengineers

Social neuroscience for robotics

Robot-Mammal InteractionsHow does interacting with iRat trigger responses from rats equipped with heart rate, brain function and breathing monitors?

Animal Model for Contextual Robotics

Andrea ChibaCognitive Sciences

Todd ColemanBioengineering

Janet WilesU. of Queensland

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Autonomous Soft SystemsFunctional after getting run over by a truck.

Self-assembly by FoldingDesign and control of snake-like robots for medicine, manufacturing, military

Rigid Core to Soft Exterior Human friendly3D-printed body

Biologically-inspired Robotics

Michael Tolley Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering: Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab

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Understand Driver IntentionAlgorithms and sensorized vehicles make it possible for an onboard computer to figure out whether the motorist intends to make a left turn, change lanes, etc. —even before the driver starts to do it

In 2017 VehiclesIntelligent assistance features built in Trivedi lab are planned for rollout in the Audi A8 in 2017

Humanizing Robotic Vehicles

Variations in light make detecting hand movements of a car driver difficult

Mohan Trivedi Electrical and Computer Engineering: Lab for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles

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Humans to Specify Swarm Behaviors for:

• Creating safety perimeters• Urban search• Traffic re-routing• Egress paths for victims• Situational awareness

Human-Swarm Interactions

Jorge Cortes and Sonia Martinez Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Multi-Agent Robotics Laboratory

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Student designTwo nested tetrahedra interconnected by actuatable tendons

Tensegrity Duct-Climbing Robot

DucTT the tensegrity robot

Batteries, electronics, motors and sensors are embedded within aluminum tubes to shield them from gas or liquid that may be flowing within ducts during the inspection.

Jeffrey Friesen (graduate student) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Tom Bewley’s Lab

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UC San Diego Robotics Related Start-ups

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UC San Diego startup: Bioengineering + Electrical Engineering + Cognitive Science

Cognionics

Mobile, real-time, non-invasive human bioelectric sensing

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Emotient

Image credit: Emotient

Startup from UC San Diego’s Machine Perception Lab

Emotient is a leader in emotion detection and sentiment analysis based on facial expressions.

Marian Bartlett (alumna/Prof)Ian R. Fasel (alumnus)Javier R. Movellan (researcher)Gwen Littlewort (researcher)Jacob Whitehill (alumnus)

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Accel Robotics

Marius Buibas | CEO, SoftwareEngineer and Neuroscientist, PhDBrain Corp, HP, UC San Diego bioengineering PhD

Nick Morozovsky I CTO, HardwareRobotics Engineer, PhDWowWee, HP, UC SD mechanical engineering PhD

Developing a robot photographer

Co-founded by:

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WowWee + UC San Diego

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EcoATM

UC San Diego startup

• The only automated kiosk that collects unwanted or used cell phones, tablets and MP3 players for instant cash

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RoboLink UC San Diego robotics education startup

Develops/provides robotic kits and instruction to students in grades 4-12

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Conclusion

We can build a world class robotics hub in San Diego

• World class universities• Outside world recognizes our effort• San Diego has all the components to host the ecosystem• Entrepreneurs agree!• The innovation is happening here• New start-ups happening all the time• Local major industry supports the hub

The future looks bright!

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Thank you!