Partner | Date | Diss-Ext/Edu-Int | Activity Title | Detailed description. |
UniBi | 3/15/2010 | Diss-Ext | First version of AMARSi website | www.amarsi-project.eu |
UniBi | 4/1/2010 | Diss-Ext | Realize of project fact sheet | Published on project website |
UniBi | 5/1/2010 | Edu-Int | Realization of project collaboration platform Redmine | https://redmine.amarsi-project.eu/ |
UniBi | 3/1/2010 | Diss-Ext | J.Steil's interview for Wired UK | Link to article at: http://www.amarsi-project.eu/press |
UniBi | 2/13//2010 | Diss-Ext | Presentation at EURON meeting | San Sebastian, distribution of fact sheet by Markus Vince |
UniBi/SLF | 4/22/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited Talk | Perspectives Session on Rich Motor Skills and Robotics at Conf. Of Neural Control Movement, J. Steil |
UniBi | 3/25/2010 | Diss-Ext | invited talk | Workshop at Global Center of Excellence in Cognitive Neuroscience and Robotics, Osaka, J. Steil |
UniBi | 4/8/2010 | Diss-Ext | Keynote talk | 12. Neural Computation and Psycholog Workshop, London, J. Steil |
UniBi | 6/3/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited seminar talk | Birmingham University, Dept of Computer Science, J.Steil |
UniBi | 5/7/2010 | Diss-Ext | Press release | Bielefeld University, press release (Nr. 82/2010), http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/pressemitteilungen/entry/bielefelder_robotik_baut_stellung_in |
UniBi | 5/5/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited talk | 1) Presentation and overview of AMARSi project, 2) research talk on plasticity and learning, by A.Soltoggio. Host: Prof. Maaria Kruusmaa Tallinn University of Technology |
UniBi/IIT | 9/27-28/2010 | Diss-Ext | Fair Presentation ICT Brüssel | Presentation of AMARSi at ICT, Poster, talk at iCub & friends workshop, J. Steil |
UniBi | 10/18/2010 | Diss-Ext | Talk, iCub & Friends workshop | Talk/Workshop at IROS, Taipeh, http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/The_iCub_IROS_%2710_workshop, J. Steil |
UniBi | 12/7/2010 | Diss-Ext | Talk, Co-organisation of iCub & Friends Workshop | Talk/Workshop, Organizer, at Humanoids 2010, Nashville http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/The_iCub_Humanoids_%2710_workshop |
UniBi | 12/7/2010 | Diss-Ext | Talk at Humanoids Workshop | By A. Nordmann, Presentation of Software Framework |
UniBi | | Edu-Int | ICub summer school | Attended by A.Nordmann |
UniBi | 2/18/2011 | Diss-Ext | Invited talk | Plymouth University, Center for Neuroscience and Robotics, J.Steil |
UniBi | 6/10/2010 | Diss-Ext | Automatica Fair | Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, AMARSi Poster |
UniBi/ITT | 4/10/2010 | Diss-Ext | Hannover Industrial Fair | Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, demonstration of new compliant actuators, AMARSi Poster |
UniBi | 11/10/2010 | Diss-Ext | Forum Maschinenbau, Industrial Fair | Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, AMARSi Poster |
UniBi | 12/10/2010 | Diss-Ext | Workshop Talk | Paper: Interactive Learning of Inverse Kinematics with Nullspace Constraints using Recurrent Neural Networks, Workshop on Compu. Intelligence, A. Lemme |
TUG | 8/6/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invitation of Marc Toussaint (Berlin) | Possible uses of probabilistic inference methods for motor control and planning task in the project were discussed |
TUG | 8/24/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invitation of Benjamin Schrauwen (Ghent) | Discussion of AMARSi related research |
TUG | 10/25/2010 | Diss-Ext | Discussions with Talk Marc Toussaint (Berlin) and Matt Botvinick (Princeton) | Biologically motivated methods for solving motor control problems with the help of probabilistic inference were discussed. |
TUG | 1/10-11/2011 | Diss-Ext | AMARSi Workshop Zürich: “Probabilistic inference for motor control” | Gerhard Neumann and Elmar Rückert from TUG gave a series of lectures during a 2 days workshop for AMARSi students and researchers on probabilistic inference as a general tool for motor planning. They presented a short overview over graphical models, inference in graphical models, message passing, and approximate message passing. |
TUG | 1/12-14/2011 | Diss-Ext | AMARSi Workshop Zürich : “Introduction to reservoir computing” | Gerhard Neumann and Elmar Rückert from TUG attended a 3 days workshop on reservoir computing given by Tim Waegeman, Francis Wyffels and Ken Caluwaerts from Reservoir Lab, Ghent University. |
UniTu | 3/31-6/2/2010 | Diss-Ext | Workshop on Crowd Simulation | Albert Mukovskiy and Martin Giese attended the 23rd Int. Conf. on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2010) Saint-Malo, France. They presented a short paper with the preliminary results on stability analysis for the multicomponent nonlinear dynamical systems using Contraction Theory. |
UniTu | 7/27-29/2010 | Diss-Ext | Presentation at IADIS International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing | Albert Mukovskiy attended IADIS, Freiburg, Germany. He presented the paper by Mukovskiy A. et al. “Contraction theory as method for the analysis and the design of stability of collective behavior in crowds” |
UniTu | 03/2011 | Diss-Ext | Presentation / seminar | Prof. Giese gave a seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH. Title: “Learning-based modeling and stability design of interactive human locomotion patterns”. |
UniTu | 6/ 6-8/2010 | Diss-Ext | Paper presentation at Humanoids 2010 | Martin Giese attended The 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, USA. He presented the paper by
Mukovskiy A. et al. “Design of the Dynamic Stability Properties of the Collective Behavior of Articulated Bipeds.” |
UniTu | 1/31–2/3/2011, | Diss-Ext | Paper presentation. WSCG'2011 | Albert Mukovskiy attended The 19th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization
and Computer Vision 2011, Plzen, Czech
Republic. He presented the paper by Mukovskiy A. et al. “Analysis and design of the dynamical
stability of collective behavior in crowds.” |
UniTu | 3/23-27/2011 | Diss-Ext | Poster presentation at NWG | Enrico Chiovetto attended the 9th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (Göttingen, Germany). At this meeting he presented a poster describing partial results of the performance comparison of different unsupervised learning algorithms for the extraction of muscle synergies. |
UniZu | 1/10-11/2011 | Diss-Ext | Workshop organization | 1st AMARSi workshops (10th – 14th Jan., 2011, Zurich) |
Weiz | | Diss-Ext | Invited talk. HebrewUtalk | Tamar Flash, “On Motion Generation and Perception: Geometry, Timing and Invariance,” The Hebrew university, Jerusalem, Joint Research Conference of the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Israel Science Foundation on: selection and control mechanisms In Perception and Action. |
Weiz | 6/17-20/ 2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited talk. AREADNE 2010 | Tamar Flash “Motion generation and perception: geometry, timing and compositionality” AREADNE 2010, Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini, Greece |
Weiz | 10/6-10/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited talk. SCCS 2010 | Tamar Flash ―Motion planning, perception and compositionality: from behavior to computational models” Symposium SCCS 2010 - Scientific Computing in the Cognitive Sciences, Oct 6-8, 2010, IWH Heidelberg. |
Weiz | October/ November 2011 | Diss-Ext | Invited talks | R. Fuchs "Kinematics and Geometrical Invariance" in: University of illinois at Urbaba-Champaign, USA, Aerospace Robotics and Control Group (2/3/2010), University of Massachusetts, USA, Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics (4/3/2010), MIT, USA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CSAIL (8/3/2010) Princeton, USA, Mechanical and aerospace engineering (11/3/2010) |
Weiz | | Diss-Ext | Invited talks | Barliya A. "Revealing control strategies: Investigating Kinematic Representations" USC, Brandeis university, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and Columbia University NY |
Weiz | 4/2010 | Diss-Ext | Poster presentation | "Geometric Invariance and Optimization" Fuchs, R., Bennequin, D. Berthoz, a., Flash, T. in Neural Control of Movement, 20th annual meeting, Naples, Florida, USA, April 2010 |
Weiz | 4/2010 | Diss-Ext | Poster presentation | “The human arm redundancy problem revisited” Barliya A, Omlor, L. Giese M., Flash, T. in Neural Control of Movement, 20th annual meeting, Naples, Florida, USA, April 2010. |
SLF | 4/2010 | Diss-Ext | Oral session at NCM meeting | Andrea d'Avella, has organized a session at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (April 2010), entitled “Adaptive modular architectures for rich motor skills: ideas and challenges towards a constructive approach”,to present and discuss the interdisciplinary approach of AMARSi to the human motor control community. |
SLF | 4/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invitetd talk | Yury ivanenko visited the RBCS dept. of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova Italy. |
SLF | 6/2010 | Diss-Ext | Invitetd talk | Andrea d'Avella visited the RBCS dept. of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova Italy. |
EPFL | 6/6-8/2011 | Diss-Ext | Poster presentaton and oral session | Tuleu, A. and Ajallooeian, M. and Sproewitz, A. and Loepelmann, P. and Ijspeert, A. J. (2011). Trot Gait Locomotion of a Cat Sized Quadruped Robot. Poster and oral session at “Workshop on bio-inspired robotics”. Nantes (France). |
EPFL | 2010 | Diss-Ext | Conference presentation | Khansari Zadeh, S. M. and Billard, A. (2010) BM: An Iterative Method to Learn Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models. Proceeding of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), 2010, p. 2381-2388. |
EPFL | 2010 | Diss-Ext | Conference presentation | Khansari Zadeh, S. M. and Billard, A. (2010) Imitation learning of Globally Stable Non-Linear Point-to-Point Robot Motions using Nonlinear Programming. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010. |
EPFL | 12/6-8/ 2010 | Diss-Ext | Conference presentation | Kim, S., Gribovskaya, E. and Billard, A. (2010) Learning Motion Dynamics to Catch a Moving Object. 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, USA. |
Ugent | 1/10-11/2011 | Diss-Ext | Workshop on Reservoir Computing at AI-LAB Zurich | T. Waegeman, K. Caluwaerts and F. Wyffels participated to the workshop on Reservoir computing http://reslab.elis.ugent.be/seminars/amarsi-workshop-reservoir-computing |
Ugent | 2010 | Diss-Ext | Flemish science week workshop | Workshop for high school children on robotics ("wetenschapsweek"). People responsible for the workshp were F. Wyffels, T. Waegeman, P.J. Kinder-mans and M. D'Haene. http://reslab.elis.ugent.be/wetenschapsweek |
Ugent | 06/2010 and 06/2011 | Diss-Ext | Robot competitions and workshops on electronics and robotics. | Robot competitions and workshops on electronics and robotics at Ghent University in collaboration with the IEEE student branch Ghent. People involved: F. Wyffels, T. Waegeman, M. D'Haene and P.J. Kinder-mans. http://www.ieeesb.ugent.be/nl/welek/robot/2011 and http://www.ieeesb.ugent.be/nl/robot/2010 |
Ugent | 10/2010 | Diss-Ext | Presentation: 3rd IEEE RAS&EMBS | F. Wyffels presented a conference paper. F. wyffels, M. D'Haene, T. Wae-geman, K. Calu-waerts, C. Nunes, B. Schrauwen. Re-alization of a passive compliant ro-bot dog2010, Proc. of the 3rd IEEE RAS&EMBS Int. Conf. on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechanics, pp 882-886. |
IIT | 12/14-18/2010 | Diss-Ext | Presentation:IEEE ROBIO 2010 | Conference paper. Zhibin Li, Bram Vanderborght, N.G. Tsagarakis, Darwin Caldwell. “Fast Bipedal Walk Using Large Strides by Modulating Hip Posture and Toe-heel Motion” , IEEE ROBIO Tianjin, China, 14-18th Dec. 2010. |
IIT | Sep-10 | Diss-Ext | Presentation: UKACC2010 | Conference paper. Z.Li, B.Vanderborght, N.G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell, “Human-like Walking with Straightened Knees, Toe-off and Heel-strike for the Humanoid Robot iCub”, Coventry, UK, Sept. 2010. |
IIT | 2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited presentation: | Developing Actuators with RichMotor Properties for Emerging Humanoids, SIMPAR 2010, Workshop on Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids. N.G. Tsagarakis |
IIT | 2010 | Diss-Ext | Invited presentation | "Building Safer Robots: Mechatronic Implementations and Challenges of Compliant Actuation Systems , Workshop on Haptic Joint Actions by Humans |
Jac | 6/2/2010 | Diss-Ext | Press release by Jacobs University Bremen | Title: “Jacobs University entwickelt "Gehirne" für lernfähige Roboter in internationalem EU-Projekt AMARSi” |
