News
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| 16 and 17th of April 2014 | Final Review Meeting |
The AMARSi final review meeting took place on the 16th and 17th of April in Bielefeld. |
Other |
| 2014-04-04 | Deliverable 6.4 Technical Report on cognitive architecture admitting user interaction |
The new AMARSi deliverable 6.4 "Technical Report on cognitive architecture admitting user interaction" was realeased on time at month 48 and is now available for download. |
Publication |
| March 2014 | Compliance Regulation Strategies and Performance Evaluation |
Deliverable 2.6 "Compliance Regulation Strategies and Performance Evaluation" is now available for download. |
Publication |
| March 2014 | Case studies with compliant robots, e.g. Cheetah or compliant iCub and simulations. |
The deliverable D3.4 due at month 48 is now available for download. |
Publication |
| 12/3/2014 | Examples of cursor kinematics throughout a virtual surgery experiment |
A new video by SLF.is now available on the AMARSi YouTube channel:
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Video |
| 12/03/2014 | Construction of virtual surgeries |
New video available on the AMARSi YouTube Channel |
Video |
| 12/03/2014, 8:30 am | How AMARSi makes a difference for competitiveness |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil, Gisela Eickhoff (Harting Technology Group) |
Invited talk |
| 11/3/2014 | Sequence of motor patterns using a single neural network |
Here is a new video demonstrating the generation of sequences of motor patterns learnt from human motion capture data, using a single neural network under the control of conceptors. |
Video |
| 17/5/2014 | Talk : Perceptual integration of kinematic components for the recognition of emotional facial expressions |
Speaker(s) : Enrico Chiovetto Event : VSS conference Place : Tampa, Florida Date and Time : 17/05/2014 Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Conference Presentation |
| 24/02/2014 | Talk: Complex body movements: recognition, modeling, and control |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese Event : Place : Leibniz-Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der TU Dortmund Date and Time : 24/02/2014 Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Invited talk |
| 02/19/2014 | Talk : An introduction to robot learning and probabilistic movement planning |
Speaker(s) : Elmar Rückert |
Workshop |
| 01/28/2014 | Talk : Neural Theory for the Visual Recognition of Goal-directed Actions and Extensions |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese Event : USC Workshop on Action, Vision and Language and their Brain Mechanisms in Evolutionary Relationship Place : Los Angeles, USA Date and Time : 01/28/2014 |
Workshop |
| 27/01/2014, 3:00 pm | Compliant Actuation and Control Principles for Soft Humanoid Robots |
Speaker(s) : Nikos TsagarakisEvent : Invited Seminar TalkPlace : Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pontedera, PisaDate and Time : 27/01/2014, 3:00 pmPartners : IIT - Department of Advanced Robotics |
Invited talk |
| 01/14/2014, 1:00 pm | Continuous Neural Association for Efficient Robot Learning |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : Invited seminar Place : Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies Date and Time : 01/14/2014, 1:00 pm |
Invited talk |
| 01/09/2014, 11:00 am | Neural Representations for Robotic Skill Learning |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil |
Invited talk |
| 12/17/2013, 12:00 am | Neural Representation for Robotic Skill Learning |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil |
Invited talk |
| 2/10/2013, 3:00 pm | Neural Representations for Robotic Skill Learning |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : International Workshop on Cognition for Friendly Robots Place : Italian Institute of Technology, Genova Date and Time : 12/10/2013, 3:00 pm Abstract : Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab Notes : |
Invited talk |
| 12/06/2013, 2:00 pm | Kollege Roboter?! Assistenztechnologie für die Produktion |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : Industrial Transfer-Workshop Interaktive Robotik Place : Bielefeld University Date and Time : 12/06/2013, 2:00 pm |
Invited talk |
| 2-4/12/2013 | NeuroEngineering the Brain: participation and poster presentation |
Andrea Soltoggio attended the Bernstein Sparks Workshop in Tutzing, Germany on December 2-4 2013Two posters on AMARSi advances on neural reward learning were presented. |
Poster |
| 11/26/2013, 3:00 pm | Invited talk : Muscle synergies for modular and adaptive human motor control |
Speaker: Andrea d'Avella Event : Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics seminar Place : Learning Centre UG09 Date and Time : 11/26/2013, 3:00 pm Partners : SLF |
Invited talk |
| 11/12/2013, 6:30 pm | Why Robotics? |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : Evening talk at Oxford Brookes Dep. Computing Student event Place : Oxford Brookes University Date and Time : 11/12/2013, 6:30 pm |
Invited talk |
| 5/11/2013 | Invited talk: Advances in neuro-robotics |
On the 5/11/2013 Andrea Soltoggio gives a talk at the Fakultät für Informatik, TU Chemnitz (Prof. F. Hamker's lab). |
Invited talk |
| 28/10/2013 | Neuro-robotic conditioning |
On the 28/10/2013 Andrea Soltoggio gives a talk at the Computation Neuroscience Lab of Prof. Walter Senn in Bern, CH. Title: Neuro-robotic conditioning with delayed rewards and disturbances. |
Invited talk |
| 09/25/2013 | Perceptual relevance of kinematic components of facial movements extracted by unsupervised learning |
Speaker(s) : Enrico Chiovetto, Andea d'Avella and martin Giese Event Bernstein conference Place : Tuebingen, Germany Date and Time : 09/25/2013 Abstract : Partners : University of Tuebingen |
Conference Presentation |
| 09/23/2013, 1:00 pm | Talk : Introduction to Cognitive Robotics |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : Teaching: Lecture Series Place : Oxford Brookes University Date and Time : 09/23/2013, 1:00 pm Abstract : Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab Notes : Lecture Series to teach a introductory module in cognitive robotics |
Invited talk |
| 09/10/2013 | Talk : Action Perception: An Example of a Program Leading from Experimentation to Simulation |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese Event : Human Brain Project: Kickoff Symposium Place : Heidelberg, Germany Date and Time : 09/10/2013 Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Workshop |
| Keynote Talk at EPIROB 2013 |
Prof. Herbert Jaeger gave a keynote talk at the EPIROB 2013 Conference in Osaka. Title: "Shaping concepts in the dynamics of recurrent neural networks". For more information see http://www.icdl-epirob.org/ |
Invited talk | |
| Talk : Neural Theory for the Visual Recognition of Goal-directed Actions |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese Event :Symposium 'Computational Neuroscience meets Visual Perception' Place : Date and Time : 27/08/2013 Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
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| 08/29/2013 | Talk: Integration of kinematic components in the perception of emotional facial expressions |
Speaker(s) : Cristobal Curio, Enrico Chiovetto and Martin Giese Event : ECVP conference 2013 Place : ECVP conference Bremen, Germany Date and Time : 08/29/2013, Abstract : Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Conference Presentation |
| Oct 15, 2013 | Humanoids 2013 Workshop |
Title: Benchmarking of State-of-the-Art algorithms in Generating Human-Like Robot Reaching Motions |
Workshop |
| 07/22/2013, 2:15 pm | Patterned control of human locomotion |
Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko Event : IUPS Congress, "Central versus peripheral neural control mechanisms Place : Birmingham, UK Date and Time : 07/22/2013, 2:15 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF Notes : |
Invited talk |
| 22/3/2013 | Compliant Actuation Technologies for Emerging Humanoids |
EventInternational Summer School on Humanoid Soccer RobotPlaceBonn, GermanyDate07/22/2013Time (indicate local time)9:00 amType of audienceScientific Community |
Invited talk |
| 2013-07-14 | Cheetah-cub step down experiments |
A new video featuring AMARSi funded research has been published on YouTube.
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Video |
| 10 July 2013 | Movement Primitives as a Robotic Tool to Interpret Trajectories through Learning-by-doing |
A new video describing the results in the paper "Movement Primitives as a Robotic Tool to Interpret Trajectories through Learning-by-doing " is now published on YouTube. |
Video |
| 09/07/2013 | Talk : Lernbasierte und neuronale Repräsenation zur Erkennung von Bewegungen und ihrer semantischen Struktur |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese Event : Forum Scientiarium Tübingen Place : Tubingen, Germany Date and Time : 09/07/2013 Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Workshop |
| 7/3/2014 | Compliant Actuation and Control for Soft Humanoid Robots |
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Invited talk |
| June 2013 | Report on contraints and rapresentation of motor primitives |
Deliverable 1.5 "Report on contraints and rapresentation of motor primitives" is now available for download. |
Publication |
| New article featuring the Oncilla in the Süddeutsche Zeitung |
In German, see scan in attachment. |
Article in popular press | |
| 2013-06-17 | A robot that runs like a cat |
A new video featuring the AMARSi Oncilla robot is now available on YouTube |
Video |
| 28/06/2013, 16:40 Room 0.002 | Modularity for human motor control and learning |
Speaker: Andrea d'Avella (Santa Lucia Fundation) Place: Technische Universität Berlin Date: 28/06/2013, 16:40 Room 0.002 Event: "Robotics Science and Systems: Workshop on Hierarchical and Structured Learning for Robotics"
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Invited talk |
| 2013-06-14 | Cheetah-cub trot gait, comparing leg designs |
A new video is available on YouTube
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Video |
| 2013-06-14 | Cheetah-cub hallway run |
A new video featuring the Cheetah-cub robot is now published on YouTube |
Video |
| 06/10/2013, 3:45 pm | Robotik-Forschung im europäischen Forschungsverbund |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : IHK meets Baltic Sea Region Place : IHK (Industrie und Handelskammer), Bielefeld Date and Time : 06/10/2013, 3:45 pm Abstract : Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab Notes : |
Invited talk |
| 09/05/2013, 10:00 am | Teaching robots to drink, relax and play catch |
Speaker(s) : Aude Billard |
Invited talk |
| "Robot cat" blends everything the Internet loves on CBSNEWS (June 2013) |
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Article in popular press | |
| Cheetah-bot to make BigDog look like a clumsy canine (geek.com) (June 2013) |
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Article in popular press | |
| 4PM, 31st May 2013 | Solving the distal reward problem with rare neural correlations: from theory to robots |
Speaker: Andrea Soltoggio Venue: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Date and time: 4PM, 31st May 2013 Note: descrption at: http://talks.bham.ac.uk/talk/index/1087 Abtract: |
Invited talk |
| 27/05/2013 | On the complexity to learn bi-manual manipulation |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil Event : Symposium Manual Intelligence Place : Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld Date and Time : 05/27/2013, Abstract : Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab |
Invited talk |
| 05/27/2013 | Talk : Neural Mechanisms of the Visual Recognition of Hand Actions |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese Event : CITEC Symposium: Manual Intelligence, 27th – 28th May 2013 Place : Bielefeld, Germany Date and Time : 27/05/2013 Partners : University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Invited talk |
| 29 April, 2 May 2013 | AMARSi third year review and workshop in Ghent |
The AMARSi consortium ends successfully the third year revew meeting and workshop in Ghent.
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Workshop |
| April 2013 | Report on segmentation of trajectories into the underlying primitives and syntactic rules for their compositionality based on differential geometry approaches |
The deliverable 1.4 " Report on segmentation of trajectories into the underlying primitives and syntactic rules for their compositionality based on differential geometry approaches " is now available for download. |
Publication |
| Design principles and learning schemes for applied morphological computation in robotics under consideration of aspects of material science |
New deliverable 3.5 "Design principles and learning schemes for applied morphological computation in robotics under consideration of aspects of material science " is now available for download |
Publication | |
| May 2013 | ICRA 2013 Workshop on Developments of Simulation Tools for Robotics & Biomechanics |
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany. The workshop is scheduled to take place on Friday, May 10, 2013. ORGANIZERS: Houman Dallali (Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) Gustavo Medrano-Cerda (Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) |
Workshop |
| TR on integrated cognitive architectures |
Deliverable 6.3 "TR on integrated cognitive architectures" is now available for download. |
Publication | |
| April 2013 | TR on the tuning and modification of timing strategies in primitive based learning |
Deliverable 4.5 "TR on the tuning and modification of timing strategies in primitive based learning" is now available for download. |
Publication |
| Cheetah-Cub Quadruped Robot Learns to Walk, Trot Using Gait Patterns from Real Animal |
Cheetah-Cub Quadruped Robot Learns to Walk, Trot Using Gait Patterns from Real Animal, featured on IEEE Spectrum. |
Article in popular press | |
| 26 Apr 2013 | Oncilla Quadruped Robot from Ghent University |
A new video is made available by the University of Gent
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Video |
| 24 Apr 2013 | From Modulated Hebbian Plasticity to Simple Behavior Learning through Noise and Weight Saturation |
A new video made as support material for the paper " From Modulated Hebbian Plasticity to Simple Behavior Learning through Noise and Weight Saturation "
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Video |
| 23 Apr 2013 | Blue COMAN Whole Body Compliance | Video | |
| 23 Apr 2012 | COMAN Walking Stabilization | Video | |
| New video of COMAN Robot | Video | ||
| 19/04/2013, 8:20 am | Learned Muscle Synergies as Prior in Dynamical Systems for Controlling Bio-mechanical and Robotic Systems |
Speaker(s) : Elmar Rückert, Andrea d'Avella Event : Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2013) Place : Puerto Rico, USA Date and Time : 04/19/2013, 8:20 am |
Conference Presentation |
| 19/04/2013 | A unifying framework for the identification of kinematic and electromyographic motor primitives |
Speaker(s): Enrico Chiovetto, Andrea d'Avella and Martin Giese Event : Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2013) Place : Puerto Rico, USA Date and Time : 04/19/2013, 8:40 am Abstract : Partners : - UniTu |
Conference Presentation |
| 18/04/2013, 3:00 pm | Not your father's axial system: Integration of the trunk and limbs as the dynamical base of locomotion |
Speaker : Yuri Ivanenko |
Invited talk |
| COMAN Robot from the European #AMARSi Project featured on IEEE Spectrum. |
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Article in popular press | |
| 26/03/2013 | New video: Neural learning with robot: copying with delayed rewards and disturbances | Video | |
| AMARSi - Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil |
Invited talk | |
| 22/02/2013, 11:30 am | Locomotor primitives in newborn babies and their development |
Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko Event : Séminaire Bordeaux Neurosciences (invited talk) Place : University of Bordeaux, France Date and Time : 02/22/2013, 11:30 am Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Invited talk |
| Uniqueness of human locomotion |
Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko Event : Posture and Motor Perspectives Conference Place : Portland, OR, United States Date and Time : 02/02/2013, 4:00 pm Partners : SLF |
Invited talk | |
| Biologically-inspired Theories for the Representation of Complex Actions |
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Invited talk | |
| 12/12/2012, 3:20 pm | Using movement primitives in interpreting and decomposing complex trajectories in learning-by-doing |
Speaker(s) : Andrea Soltoggio Event : 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2012) Place : Guangzhou, China Date and Time : 12/12/2012, 3:20 pm |
Conference Presentation |
| 11/12/2012, 11:30 am | The function of the spine and its morphological effect in quadruped robot locomotion |
Speaker(s) : Qian Zhao Event : 2012 IEEE International conference on Robotics and Biomimetics Place : Guangzhou, China Date and Time : 12/11/2012, 11:30 am Abstract : Partners : UZH - AILab |
Conference Presentation |
| Nov 2012 | Tools for analysing the stability of adaptive modules |
The deliverable 4.4 |
Publication |
| Interpreting Observed Action |
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Invited talk | |
| 12/01/2012, 11:20 am | Representation and Generalization of Bi-Manual Skills from Kinesthetic Teaching |
Speaker(s) : Felix Reinhart Event : IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots Place : Osaka Date and Time : 12/01/2012, 11:20 am |
Conference Presentation |
| Recent advances in research at CoR-Lab |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil |
Invited talk | |
| Plasticity and Different Solutions to Reorganize Muscle Patterns During Gait |
Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko Event : International Conference on Neurorehabilitation (ICNR) Place : Toledo, Spain Date and Time : 11/17/2012, 11:00 am Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Conference Presentation | |
| 17 Nov 2012 | Identifying Muscle Synergies from EMG Decomposition: Approaches, Evidence, and Potential Application to Neurorehabilitation |
Event: International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation, Toledo, Spain. Speaker: Andrea d'Avella Note: Invited talk at post-conference workshop titled "Muscle synergies: from neurophysiological hypothesis to clinical tool" |
Invited talk |
| AMARSi-Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills |
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Invited talk | |
| Adaptive Motor Primitives in Brain and Machines: Symposium, 5th November 2012, Tübingen |
The AMARSi project organises a symposium titled "Adaptive Motor Primitives in Brain and Machines". University Clinic Tübingen, Medical Clinic-Lecture Hall Otfried-Müller-Str. 1 Monday, 5th of November 2012 13h30 - 18h00 Open entrance. |
Workshop | |
| Autumn AMARSi workshop Tübingen, 5-7 November |
The AMARSi consortium is preparing to travel to Tübingen for a general meeting and workshop on the 5th, 6th and 7th of November. In occasion of this workshop, AMARSi organises a symposium open to the public on Monday the 5th of November. |
Workshop | |
| Embodiment Enables the Spinal Engine on Quadruped Robot Locomotion |
Speaker(s) : Qian Zhao Event : 2012 IEEE/RSJ Internattional Conference on Intelligent Robots and Place : Portugal Date and Time : 09/10/2012, 2:45 pm |
Conference Presentation | |
| 10/09/2012, 2:45 pm | Embodiment Enables the Spinal Engine on Quadruped Robot Locomotion |
Speaker(s) : Qian Zhao Event : 2012 IEEE/RSJ Internattional Conference on Intelligent Robots and Place : Portugal Date and Time : 10/09/2012, 2:45 pm |
Conference Presentation |
| 27 Sep 2012 | New video: Installation and Examples of the AMARSi Oncilla Simulator |
New video avaiable on the AMARSi YouTube Channel.
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Video |
| Veränderung der Struktur mentaler Repräsentationen beim Fertigkeitserwerb |
Speakers: Cornelia Frank, Dr. William Land, Dr. Thomas Schack |
Invited talk | |
| 25/09/2012 | Anticipatory posture control during a complex prehension task |
Speaker : Dr. William Land Event: 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Psychologi Place: Abstract |
Invited talk |
| Interaction between biology and robotic and what we can learn from it |
Speaker: Elmar Rückert - Graz University of Technology - TUG
Event: SLF Seminar Talk |
Invited talk | |
| 09/04/2012 | Perceptual relevance of kinematic components of facial movements extracted by unsupervised learning |
Speaker(s) : Martin Giese, Enrico Chiovetto and Cristobal Curio Event : ECVP conference Place : Alghero, Italy Date and Time : 09/04/2012 Abstract : Partners: University of Tuebingen Notes : |
Conference Presentation |
| 06/09/2012 12:30 pm | Teaching Nullspace Constraints in Physical Human-Robot Interaction using Reservoir Computing |
Speaker: Arne Nordmann - Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab
Event: DGR-Days 2012 |
Invited talk |
| Bi-manual Skills from Kinesthetic Teaching |
Representation and Generalization of Bi-manual Skills from Kinesthetic Teaching By Dr. Felix Reinhart (Bielefeld University, CoR-Lab) Event: DGR-Tage 2012 (German Society of Robotics) Date and Place: 6 September 2012, Technische Universität Berlin Abstract |
Invited talk | |
| 19/08/2012, 2:10 pm | Learning versatile sensorimotor coordination with goal babbling and neural associative dynamics |
Speaker(s) : Felix Reinhart Event : IEEE Third Joint International Conference on Development and Learning Place : Osaka Date and Time : 08/19/2012, 2:10 pm Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab |
Conference Presentation |
| 08/10/2012, 5:45 pm | Learning Whole Upper Body Control with Dynamic Redundancy Resolution in Coupled Associative Radial Basis Function Networks |
Speaker(s) : Andre Lemme (stand-in for Felix Reinhart) |
Conference Presentation |
| Conference Talk at Soft-Robotics |
Ken Caluwaerts gives a talk at "Living Machines - Workshop on Soft-Robotics" http://csnetwork.eu/conf2012/workshop Title : Locomotion without a brain: morphological computation in tensegrity structures Date: 09/07/2012 Abstract: Embodiment has led to a revolution in robotics by not thinking of the robot body and its controller as two separate |
Conference Presentation | |
| 08/02/2012, 5:00 pm | Muscle synergies for motor control |
Speaker(s) : Andrea d'Avella Event : Boston Action Club, Northwestern University Place : 306 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University Date and Time : 08/02/2012, 5:00 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Invited talk |
| 07/05/2012, | Contrôle de la locomotion par des systèmes d’oscillateurs couplés: de la biologie à la robotique |
Speaker(s) : Auke Jan IJSPEERT Event : CIFA 2012, 7ème Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique Place : Grenoble, France Date and Time : 07/05/2012, Abstract : Partners : EPFL - BioRob Notes : Plenary talk. |
Invited talk |
| 27/06/2012, 12:30 pm | First Use of EMG Mapping Analysis on Children with Cerebral Palsy |
Speaker(s) : Michael MacLellan Event : International Society for Posture and Gait Research Conference Place : Trondheim, Norway Date and Time : 06/27/2012, 12:30 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Invited talk |
| 25/06/2012, 11:00 am | Arm movements and gait |
Talk : Arm movements and gait *** Body Event : International Society for Posture and Gait Research Conference Place : Trondheim, Norway Date and Time : 06/25/2012, 11:00 am Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Conference Presentation |
| Stability in the Formation of Collective Human Locomotion Patterns |
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Conference Presentation | |
| 04/06/2012 | Neural Learning To Compose Complex Movements |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil |
Invited talk |
| 06/2012 | Biologically-inspired Learning-based Models for the Recognition and Synthesis of Body Movements |
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Invited talk |
| 22 May 2012 | New video: Robot catching flying object | Video | |
| 11 May 2012 | New video: Oncilla robot (May 2012) | Video | |
| 17 Apr 2012 | New video: Iterative Decomposition of Complex Trajectories | Video | |
| April 2012 | Technical Report on Hierarchical Reservoir Computing architectures |
The deliverable 5.2 "Technical Report on Hierarchical Reservoir Computing architectures" is now available for download. |
Publication |
| 28/04/2012, 12:45 pm | Spatiotemporal characteristics of muscle patterns during ball catching |
Speaker(s) : Mattia D'Andola Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy Date and Time : 04/28/2012, 12:45 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Conference Presentation |
| 28/04/2012, 12:45 pm | Eye movement characteristics during ball catching |
Speaker(s) : Benedetta Cesqui Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy Date and Time : 04/28/2012, 12:45 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Conference Presentation |
| 28/04/2012, 10:45 am | Multiple solutions for catching a flying ball |
Speaker(s) : Andrea d'Avella Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy Date and Time : 04/28/2012, 10:45 am Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Invited talk |
| 25/04/2012, 12:45 pm | Changes in the spinal motor output for stepping during development from infant to adult |
Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy Date and Time : 04/25/2012, 12:45 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Conference Presentation |
| Decoupling of upper and lower limb central pattern generators during human crawling may highlight the influence of cortical cont |
Speaker(s) : Michael MacLellan Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy Date and Time : 04/24/2012, 1:00 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Conference Presentation | |
| Machine Learning for Motor Skills in Robotics |
Speaker(s) : Jan Peters Event : Invitation of Jan Peters to Graz Place : Graz, University of Technology Date and Time : 04/23/2012, 10:30 am Abstract : Intelligent autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. |
Invited talk | |
| 19/04/2012 | Robot Kitty |
The spine-driven robot is able to achieve bounding gait. We studied the effect of the morphology of the spine on bounding behavior in terms of the position of virtual spinal joint. Contact: Qian Zhao and Rolf Pfeifer, Zurich.
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Video |
| April 2012 | Co-articulate of straight movements with an Artificial Neural Network |
A. Lemme and T. Flash presented a poster tilted “Co-articulate of straight movements with an Artificial Neural Network” at the NCM 2012 meeting, Venice. |
Poster |
| Neural Learning to compose complex movements |
Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil |
Invited talk | |
| Pattern control of human locomotion |
Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko Event : Brown Bag Lecture Place : Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich Date and Time : 03/20/2012, 5:15 pm Abstract : Partners : SLF |
Invited talk | |
| Muscle synergies for motor control |
Speaker(s) : Andrea d'Avella Event : Brown Bag Lecture Place : Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich Date and Time : 03/06/2012, 5:15 pm Abstract : Partners : - SLF |
Invited talk | |
| March 2012 | Mega Sumo category to RobotChallenge 2012 |
Guidance of students that participated in Mega Sumo category to RobotChallenge 2012 (students: Gilles Bonne, Hannes Ramon, Matthias Hertoge, Daan Martens, Jelle Roets and Bruno Chevallier) (supervisors: Francis wyffels, Karel Bruneel and Tim Waegeman). |
Other |
| Research Related to the Modeling |
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Invited talk | |
| Jan 2012 | Changes in gazing behaviour during an imitation task |
Tamar Flash partecipated in the 30th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. She presented the work titled “Changes in gazing behaviour during an imitation task”, by Cicerale A. and Flash T. |
Conference Presentation |
| 2012 | Neural Architectures forArtificial Cognitive Agents |
In Spring 2012, H. Jaeger holds a research seminar within the Smart Systems CS graduate program on “Neural Architectures forArtificial Cognitive Agents” |
Other |
| Talk: Computational Neural Mechanisms for the Perception of Goal-directed Actions |
Speaker(s) : Martin GieseEvent: Invited talkPlace: University College, LondonDate and Time: 01/2012 |
Invited talk | |
| Jan 2012 | How the body shapes the way we think - the four messages of embodiment |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “How the body shapes the way we think - the four messages of embodiment”. Indian Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, January 2011. |
Invited talk |
| 25/01/2012 | Computational neural mechanisms for the perception of goal-directed actions: from hand movements to perceptual causality |
Martin Giese visited UCL in London (UK). He visited the Vision and Imaging Science Group. He gave a talk. Title: “Computational neural mechanisms for the perception of goal-directed actions: from hand movements to perceptual causality”. |
Invited talk |
| 25/01/2012 | From hand actions to perceptual causality: physiologically-inspired model for the visual recognition of transitive actions |
Martin Giese gave a special lecture at the annual GDR-vision forum in Marseille (Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone). Lecture title: “From hand actions to perceptual causality: physiologically-inspired model for the visual recognition of transitive actions”. |
Invited talk |
| Jan 2012 | Rolf Pfeifer presented “Soft robotics”. Techfest IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. |
Rolf Pfeifer presented “Soft robotics”. Techfest IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. |
Exhibition |
| 8/12/2011 | Seminar at University of Padua |
Jochen Steil gave a seminar at Univ. Padua, Italy. “Random projections and dynamics for robot motion learning: From extreme learning machines to reservoir computing”. Computer science seminar. 8/12/2011 |
Invited talk |
| 2011-12-05 | CITEC Graduate school retreat |
Attendance, Brainstorming, Presentation by Thomas Schack at CITEC Graduate School Retreat 2011 Location: Gut Rothensiek, Horn-Bad Meinberg. |
Invited talk |
| 22 to 24/11/2011 | Internal workshop on Human Motor Primitives |
Workshop organized and attended by Thomas Schack and William Land. AMARSi WP1 Workshop. |
Workshop |
| 12/11/2011 | Posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience |
Mike MacLellan and Benedetta Cesqui presented posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., USA, November. |
Poster |
| 03/11/2011 | Hooligan detection: the effects of saliency and expert knowledge |
Dominik Endres, attended the 4th International Conference for Imaging in Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP 2011), Kingston, UK. He presented the paper by Endres et al.: “Hooligan detection: the effects of saliency and expert knowledge. |
Conference Presentation |
| 21/11/2011 | Workshop Participation |
Elmar Rückert participated in the WP1 workshop (Universität Bielefeld) and Jan Peters Lab Meeting (TU Darmstadt). |
Other |
| Nov 2011 | Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience |
Yuri Ivanenko participated in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., USA. |
Other |
| Nov 2011 | Design principles for intelligent systems - the four messages of embodiment |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Design principles for intelligent systems - the four messages of embodiment”. Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen. |
Invited talk |
| Nov 2011 | Research opportunities for soft robotics”. Northwestern Polytechical University, Xi’an, China, |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Research opportunities for soft robotics”. Northwestern Polytechical University, Xi’an, China, November 2011 |
Invited talk |
| Nov 2011 | On the explanatory power of embodiment |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “On the explanatory power of embodiment”. Conference on Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence, Thessaloniki. |
Invited talk |
| 26 to 28/10/2011 | Control of Locomotion and Movements Using Pattern Generators |
Auke Ijspeert gave a talk: “Control of Locomotion and Movements Using Pattern Generators: From Biology to Robotics”. 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia. |
Invited talk |
| 17/10/2011 | Streaming example: CPG implemented by a reservoir system to control a quadruped robot in the AMARSi software framework. |
Hands-on workshop, Francis wyffels, Streaming example: CPG implemented by a reservoir system to control a quadruped robot in the AMARSi software framework. |
Workshop |
| 03 to 08/10/2011 | Mechanisms of Attention: From Experimental Studies to Technical Systems |
William Land gave a talk at the workshop at the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) 2nd Annual Summer School - Mechanisms of Attention: From Experimental Studies to Technical Systems. Bielefeld, Germany. Talk title: “Focus of attention and motor performance: From theory to analysis.” http://www.cit-ec.de/node/4027. |
Invited talk |
| Oct 2011 | Research opportunities for soft robotics. Hakodate Future University, Japan. |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Research opportunities for soft robotics. Hakodate Future University, Japan. |
Invited talk |
| 14 to 18/9/2011 | 6th International Posture and Gait Symposium in Slovakia. |
Yuri Ivanenko participated in the 6th International Posture and Gait Symposium in Slovakia. |
Other |
| Sept 2011 | On the role of embodiment in the emergence of cognition |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “On the role of embodiment in the emergence of cognition”. Workshop on “The future of the em-bodied mind.” San Sebastian, Spain. |
Invited talk |
| Sept 2011 | Morphological computation - introduction and basic concepts. 2nd Int. Conference on Morphological Computation, ECLT, Venice. |
Morphological computation - introduction and basic concepts. 2nd Int. Conference on Morphological Computation, ECLT, Venice. |
Workshop |
| 14/09/2011 | Talk on a theoretical framework for morphological computation |
International Conference on Morphological Computation 2011 (Venice). Wolfgang Maass gave a talk on a theoretical framework for morphological computation. Gerhard Neumann presented our paper on “A Study of Morphological Computation by using Probabilistic Inference for Motor Planning”. |
Invited talk |
| 30/8/2011 | Workshop Participation at DSGM |
Jochen Steil partecipated to a workshop at DAGM, Frankfurt. “Neurons Driving Cognitive Robots”, keynote, Worshop NC2 - New Challenges in Neural Computation |
Invited talk |
| 27/08/2011 | Emulating human observers with Bayesian binning: segmentation of action streams |
Dominik Endres and Martin Giese participated to the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2011), Toulouse, France. Dominik Endres presented a paper by Endres et al.: “Emulating human observers with Bayesian binning: segmentation of action streams”. |
Conference Presentation |
| 20/8/2011 | From Cognitive Robotics to Biomimetic Systems |
Jochen Steil at TU Munich. Title: “From Cognitive Robotics to Biomimetic Systems”. |
Invited talk |
| 28/08/2011 | Deforming shapes - deformable templates |
Martin Giese attended the 34th European Conference on Visual Perception, Toulouse, France. He gave a talk at the symposium: “Deforming shapes - deformable templates”. |
Invited talk |
| 20/7/2011 | Control of locomotion: from biology to robotics |
Auke Ijspeert gave a talk: “Control of locomotion: from biology to robotics, EUSFLAT2011 7th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT-2011), Aix Les Bains. |
Invited talk |
| 14/7/2011 | Talk at the Institut fur Bewegugswissenschaften und Sport, ETH, Zurich. |
Yuri Ivanenko gave a talk at the Institut fur Bewegugswissenschaften und Sport, ETH, Zurich. |
Invited talk |
| July 2011 | Soft robotics, self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics, self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration”. ATR, Kyoto, July 2011. |
Invited talk |
| 28/07/2011 | Variational Inference for Policy Search in changing Situations |
International Conference on Machine Learning 2011 (Bellevue, Washington, USA). |
Conference Presentation |
| July 2011 | Research opportunities for soft robotics |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Research opportunities for soft robotics”. School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. |
Invited talk |
| 18/6/2011 | Neural Correlates of the Kinematic 2/3 Power Law in Human Visual Motion Perception: An EEG Study |
Tamar Flash participated in the Seventh annual Ben-Gurion University Workshop on Computational Motor Control Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel with a presentation: “Neural Correlates of the Kinematic 2/3 Power Law in Human Visual Motion Perception: An EEG Study”. |
Conference Presentation |
| 12/06/2011 | Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation |
Martin Giese participated to the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He gave a talk. Title: “Learning of Movement Primitives as Basis for the Analysis and Synthesis of Emotional Body Expressions”. |
Invited talk |
| 12 to 14/6/2011 | On Motion Planning and Coordination at the Intrinsic Joint and Body Levels: Computational Models and Brain Mapping Studies |
Tamar Flash participated in the ISF workshop at Ein Gedi, Israel. She gave a talk: “On Motion Planning and Coordination at the Intrinsic Joint and Body Levels: Computational Models and Brain Mapping Studies”. |
Conference Presentation |
| 10/6/2011 | Random Projections in Neural Learning |
By Jochen Steil at Honda Research. Title: “Random Projections in Neural Learning”. |
Invited talk |
| 09/06/2011 | Talk at the Université de Montréal, GNRSC. |
Andrea d’Avella gave a talk at the Université de Montréal, GNRSC. |
Invited talk |
| Trot Gait Locomotion of a Cat Sized Quadruped Robot |
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). 6/6/2011 |
Conference Presentation | |
| May 2011 | Research opportunities for soft robotics |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Research opportunities for soft robotics”. Int. Conference on Advanced Robotics, Tallinn. |
Invited talk |
| 26/4/2011 | Kinematic Analyses of Israeli Sign Language |
Y. Meirovitch and T. Flash participated to the 21st Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement San Juan, Puerto Rico. They presented a poster titled: ”Kinematic Analyses of Israeli Sign Language “. |
Conference Presentation |
| May 2011 | Embodied intelligence”. Int. Conference on Advanced Robotics, Tallinn. |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Embodied intelligence”. Int. Conference on Advanced Robotics, Tallinn. |
Invited talk |
| June 2011 | Soft robotics - Self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics - Self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration”. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. |
Invited talk |
| May 2011 | Embodied cognition in psychoanalysis |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk, together with M. Leuzinger-Beohleber: “Embodied cognition in psychoanalysis “. Int. Conf. on Neuropsychoanalysis, Berlin. |
Invited talk |
| May 2011 | A primer on embodied cognition. ICRA 2011 |
Rolf Pfeifer presened a tutorial: “A primer on embodied cognition”. ICRA 2011, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai. |
Invited talk |
| May 2011 | How the body shapes the way we think |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “How the body shapes the way we think”. HP Executive Circle, Grand Hotel Dolder. |
Invited talk |
| 11/05/2011 | Invited talk at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua |
Enrico Chiovetto was invited on to hold a seminar at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua (Italy). He presented the goals of the AMARSI project and the research he was carrying out at that time in the context of the project. |
Invited talk |
| 06/05/2011 | 11th VSS annual meeting in Naples, Florida | Invited talk | |
| April 2011 | Deliverable 4.1 (Locomotion) is available online | Publication | |
| 24/05/2011 | talk at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. |
Yuri Ivanenko gave a talk at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. |
Invited talk |
| 26-30/04/2011 | Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. |
Yuri Ivanenko participated in the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. |
Other |
| 04/09/2011 | Machine Learning Summer School (Bordeaux) |
Machine Learning Summer School (Bordeaux). |
Invited talk |
| Segmentation of action streams: human observers vs. Bayesian binning |
Dominik Endres and Nick Taubert attended the 34th Annual German Conference on AI (KI2011), Berlin, Germany. They presented the following papers: 1) Endres et al.: “Segmentation of action streams: human observers vs. Bayesian binning”. 2) Endres et al. : “Gates for handling occlusion in Bayesian models of images”. |
Conference Presentation | |
| April 2011 | Implications of embodiment for cognitive systems. EU-Cog II Conference on philosophical issues in embodiment |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Implications of embodiment for cognitive systems. EU-Cog II Conference on philosophical issues in embodiment”. Anatolia College, Thessaloniki, Greece. |
Invited talk |
| April 2011 | Designing the 21st Century |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Designing the 21st Century”. Nanyang Polytechnic (Youth Achievement Award Counsil), April 2011. |
Invited talk |
| April 2011 | Soft robotics - the art of connecting embodiment, artificial intelligence, and entertainment |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics - the art of connecting embodiment, artificial intelligence, and entertainment”. UBS Singapore. |
Invited talk |
| April 2011 | Soft robotics, self-organization, and biological inspiration (the academic approach) |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics, self-organization, and biological inspiration (the academic approach)”. National University of Singapore. |
Invited talk |
| April 2011 | Soft robotics - the next generation of intelligent machines |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk : “Soft robotics - the next generation of intelligent machines”. Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, April, 2011. |
Invited talk |
| 13/04/2011 | talk at the Manchester Metropolitan University. |
Yuri Ivanenko gave a talk at the Manchester Metropolitan University. |
Invited talk |
| 22/4/2011 | talk at the University of Maryland. |
Yuri Ivanenko gave a talk at the University of Maryland. |
Invited talk |
| Poster presentation at NWG |
Enrico Chiovetto attended the 9th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (Göttingen, Germany). |
Conference Presentation | |
| March 2011 | The four messages of embodiment |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “The four messages of embodiment. Embodiment”. Tagung, University of Zurich/ETH Zurich, (for psycho- and physiotherapists) |
Invited talk |
| 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.” March 2011 |
Conference Presentation | |
| 18/2/2011 | Plymouth University, Center for Neuroscience and Robotics | Invited talk | |
| 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. On the 12 to the 14 of January 2011 |
Workshop | |
| 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. |
Workshop | |
| 2011 | Competition of (robot) Race of Champions |
Second semester 2011-2012: organization workshops and competition of (robot) Race of Champions, Francis wyffels, Tim Waegeman, Pieter-Jan Kindermans. |
Workshop |
| 2011 | STIFF/VIACTORS Summer School on Impedance |
Seyed Mohammad Khansari-Zadeh, Mostafa Ajallooeian partecipated to the 2011 STIFF/VIACTORS Summer School on Impedance. Organizer : Jointly organised by the EUFP7 research projects STIFF (http://stiff-project.eu/) and VIACTORS (Variable Impedance ACTuation systems embodying advanced interaction behaviORS). |
Workshop |
| 2011 | iCub Summer School |
Seungsu Kim Program participated to The iCub Summer School, Veni Vidi Vici 2011 Link: http://eris.liralab.it/summerschool2011/index.shtml |
Other |
| 2011 | Form Extreme Learning Machines to Reservoir Computing |
A tutorial entitled “Form Extreme Learning Machines to Reservoir Computing” was presented by Jochen Steil from Bielefeld University at the Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC2011), see also: http://www.cor-lab.de/educational-material |
Invited talk |
| Revealing control strategies |
Barliya A. "Revealing control strategies: Investigating Kinematic Representations" USC, Brandeis university, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and Columbia University NY uknown date |
Invited talk | |
| Feb 2011 | Soft robotics” self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration” |
Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk : “Soft robotics” self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration”. Monterey Institute of Technology, Queretaro, Mexico, February 2011. |
Invited talk |
| 2011 | AMARSi Workshops: Hands-on introduction to Reservoir Computing |
Francis wyffels, Ken Caluwaerts and Tim Waegeman participated to the AMARSi Workshops: Hands-on introduction to Reservoir Computing, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (2011) |
Other |
| 14-18th Dec. 2010. | 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. |
Conference Presentation |
| 10/12/2010 | Interactive Learning of Inverse Kinematics with Nullspace Constraints using Recurrent Neural Networks |
onWorkshop on Compu. Intelligence |
Conference Presentation |
| Talk at Humanoids Workshop 2010 |
By A. Nordmann, Presentation of Software Framework on 7/12/2010 |
Conference Presentation | |
| Talk, Co-organisation of iCub & Friends Workshop |
Talk/Workshop, Organizer, at Humanoids 2010, Nashville http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/The_iCub_Humanoids_%2710_workshop |
Workshop | |
| November 2010 | Meta-model and Software Concepts for an Adaptive Component Architecture |
The deliverable 7.3 "Meta-model and Software Concepts for an Adaptive Component Architecture" is now available for download. |
Publication |
| 24 Nov 2010 | New video: FlexIRob - Teaching Nullspace Constraints in Physical Human-Robot Interaction | Video | |
| 11 Nov 2010 | New video:Cheetah quadruped compliant robot | Video | |
| Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, AMARSi Poster |
Forum maschinenbau, Industrial Fair on 10/11/2010 |
Exhibition | |
| 8/3/2010 | Kinematics and Geometrical Invariance |
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) |
Invited talk |
| Biologically motivated methods for solving motor control problems with the help of probabilistic inference were discussed. |
Discussions with Talk Marc Toussaint (Berlin) and Matt Botvinick (Princeton) on 25/10/2010 |
Invited talk | |
| 12 Oct 2010 | New videos: cCub - First Walking Steps and cCub Dancing |
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Video |
| New video: Stable Estimator of Dynamical Systems | Video | ||
| 18/10/2010 | Talk, iCub & Friends workshop |
Talk/Workshop at IROS, Taipeh, http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/The_iCub_IROS_%2710_workshop, |
Invited talk |
| 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. |
Invited talk | |
| Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, demonstration of new compliant actuators, AMARSi Poster |
At the Hannover Industrial Fair on the 4/10/2010 Partners: uniBi, IIT |
Exhibition | |
| 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. |
Conference Presentation | |
| 27 and 28/9/2010 | Presentation of AMARSi at ICT, Poster, talk at iCub & friends workshop, J. Steil | Invited talk | |
| 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. |
Conference Presentation | |
| Discussion of AMARSi related research |
Invitation of Benjamin Schrauwen, partner Tübingen |
Invited talk | |
| Possible uses of probabilistic inference methods for motor control and planning task in the project were discussed |
Invitation of Marc Toussaint (Berlin) on 6/8/2010Partner: Tübingen |
Invited talk | |
| 27/7/2010 | Presentation at IADIS International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization.... |
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” |
Conference Presentation |
| 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. on the 17/6/2010 |
Invited talk | |
| 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 on 17/6/2010 |
Invited talk | |
| Learning Motion Dynamics to Catch a Moving Object |
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. |
Conference Presentation | |
| Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, AMARSi Poster |
Automatica Fair on 10/6/2010 |
Exhibition | |
| Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system |
At the Automatica Fair on the 6/10/2010 Partnert: UniBi |
Exhibition | |
| Die Welt (in German). Roboter werden dem Menschen immer ähnlicher (9 June 2010) |
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Article in popular press | |
| 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.” on 6/6/2010 |
Conference Presentation | |
| Jacobs University entwickelt "Gehirne |
Title: “Jacobs University entwickelt "Gehirne" für lernfähige Roboter in internationalem EU-Projekt AMARSi” |
Press release | |
| 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. |
Workshop | |
| Bielefeld University, press release (Nr. 82/2010), |
Bielefeld University, press release (Nr. |
Press release | |
| 5/5/2010 | Presentation and overview of the AMARSi project |
Presentation and overview of AMARSi project and research talk on plasticity and learning, by A.Soltoggio. Host: Prof. Maaria KruusmaaTallinn University of Technology on 5/5/2010 |
Invited talk |
| Perspectives Session on Rich Motor Skills and Robotics |
Conf. Of Neural Control Movement, 22/4/2010 J. Steil |
Invited talk | |
| Practical presentation of FlexIRob motion learning system, demonstration of new compliant actuators, AMARSi Poster |
Hannover Industrial Fair on 10/4/2010 |
Exhibition | |
| H plus magazine, Robotics, Robot see, Robot do (9 April 2010) |
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Article in popular press | |
| 8/4/2010 | 12. Neural Computation and Psycholog Workshop, London, J. Steil |
12. Neural Computation and Psycholog Workshop. |
Invited talk |
| Birmingham University, Dept of Computer Science, J.Steil |
Birmingham University, Dept of Computer Science, J.Steil, Talk on 08/04/2010 |
Invited talk | |
| workshop |
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. |
Workshop | |
| April 2010 | Geometric Invariance and Optimization |
"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 April 2010 |
Invited talk |
| Project fact sheet |
Availabe on the project website |
Other | |
| Yury ivanenko and Andrea d'Avella visited the RBCS dept. of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova Italy. |
and gave a talk.April 2010 |
Invited talk | |
| The human arm redundancy problem revisited |
“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. |
Conference Presentation | |
| talk at the 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.on 31/3 /2010 |
Conference Presentation | |
| Talk at Global Center of Excellence in Cognitive Neuroscience and Robotics |
J. Steil UniBi |
Invited talk | |
| First version of AMARSi website is available |
check it out at: http://amarsi-project.eu |
Other | |
| March 2010 | Learning-based modeling and stability design of interactive human locomotion patterns |
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”. In March 2010 |
Invited talk |
| Interview for Wired UK |
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Interview | |
| Presentation at EURON meeting |
San Sebastian, distribution of fact sheet by Markus Vince |
Invited talk | |
| An Iterative Method to Learn Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models |
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. unknonw date |
Conference Presentation | |
| Imitation learning of Globally Stable Non-Linear Point-to-Point Robot Motions using Nonlinear Programming. |
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. |
Conference Presentation | |
| workshop for high school children |
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 Flemish science week workshop Unknown date |
Workshop | |
| Developing Actuators with RichMotor Properties |
Developing Actuators with RichMotor Properties for Emerging Humanoids, SIMPAR 2010, Workshop on Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids. N.G. Tsagarakis |
Invited talk | |
| Workshop on Haptic Joint Actions by Humans 2010 |
"Building Safer Robots: Mechatronic Implementations and Challenges of Compliant Actuation Systems , Workshop on Haptic Joint Actions by Humans |
Invited talk |
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