Global Conference on Educational Robotics
The 2012 Global Conference on Educational Robotics will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center from July 18 - July 22, 2012, with pre-conference classes on July 17th.
Everyone who wishes to attend the conference events and / or participate with a team for the International Botball Tournament or KIPR Open Tournament must be registered for the conference.
2012 GCER registration is now open!
Click here to register online.
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Make a presentation at GCER.
A great way to get involved with GCER is by submitting a Paper, a Robotics Project, or a Lightning Talk to be presented at a breakout session or at the Autonomous Robotics Showcase. |
Enter your submission now! This is an excellent opportunity for attendees to present their ideas and work in a non-competitive environment and facilitate dialogue about robotics. Click the links above for more information on how to submit a paper or project. |
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Attend a 2012 Preconference Class.
Preconference classes are designed to give students, teachers, and mentors an opportunity to focus on a specific topic in a one day workshop environment. |
This year's classes include:
Preconference classes will be held on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Each year the Global Conference offers several different preconference classes on the day prior to the start of official conference activities. Click the links above for more information on the preconference classes. |
2012 GCER Keynote Speakers
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Vijay Kumar is the UPS Foundation Professor and the Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1987. He has been on the Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987. Dr. Kumar served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2000-2004. He directed the GRASP Laboratory, a multidisciplinary robotics and perception laboratory, from 1998-2004. He was the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from 2005-2008. Dr. Kumar's research interests lie in the areas of robotics and manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Journal of Franklin Institute, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and the Springer Stracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR). He is the recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the 1997 Freudenstein Award for significant accomplishments in mechanisms and robotics. He has won best paper awards at DARS 2002, ICRA 2004, ICRA 2011, and RSS 2011 and has advised doctoral students who have won Best Student Paper Awards at ICRA 2008, RSS 2009, and DARS 2010. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and an elected member of the Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee. |
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Hiroshi Ishiguro received a D.Eng. in systems engineering from the Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently Professor of Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009–) and Group Leader (2011–) of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR). His research interests include distributed sensor systems, interactive robotics, and android science. He has published more than 300 papers in major journals and conferences, such as Robotics Research and IEEE PAMI. On the other hand, he has developed many humanoids and androids, called Robovie, Repliee, Geminoid, Telenoid, and Elfoid. These robots have been reported many times by major media, such as Discovery channel, NHK, and BBC. He has also received the best humanoid award four times in RoboCup. In 2007, Synectics Survey of Contemporary Genius 2007 has selected him as one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today. “Photo by Mamoru MINAMIURA” |
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Maurizio Porfiri was born in Rome, Italy in 1976. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, in 2000 and 2006; a “Laurea” in Electrical Engineering (with honours) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the University of Toulon (dual degree program), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2006 he held a Post-doctoral position with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. He has been a member of the Faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University since 2006, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is engaged in conducting and supervising research on dynamical systems theory, multiphysics modeling, and underwater robotics. Maurizio Porfiri is the author of over 75 journal publications, he is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award (Dynamical Systems program) in 2008, he has been included in the “Brilliant 10” list of Popular Science in 2010, and he has been invited the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by National Academy of Engineering in 2011. |
