Deliverable 2.6 "Compliance Regulation Strategies and Performance Evaluation" is now available for download.

A new video by SLF.is now available on the AMARSi YouTube channel: 

Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil, Gisela Eickhoff (Harting Technology Group)
Event : European Robotics Forum
Place : Rovereto
Date and Time : 12/03/2014, 8:30 am
Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab 
Notes : on invitation of the EU robotics unit 

Speaker(s) : Enrico Chiovetto

Event : VSS conference

Place :  Tampa, Florida

Date and Time : 17/05/2014

Partners : University of Tuebingen

Notes : 

Speaker(s) : Elmar Rückert
Event : ROS Summer School Maribor
Place : Maribor, Slovenia
Date and Time : 02/19/2014, 2:00 pm
Abstract :
Partners : TUG - Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Notes : Lecture on robot learning with examples from the AMARSi project 

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

Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil
Event : Invited seminar
Place : EPFL, Lausanne
Date and Time : 01/09/2014, 11:00 am
Abstract :
Partners :  - Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab
  - EPFL - BioRob
  - EPFL - LASA

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 :

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.

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

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.

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
at Brookes University, Oxford from Sept.-Dec. 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/

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 : 

Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko

Event : IUPS Congress, "Central versus peripheral neural control mechanisms
in man: Inputs and outputs" Symposium

Place : Birmingham, UK

Date and Time : 07/22/2013, 2:15 pm

Abstract :

Partners : SLF

Notes :

A new video featuring AMARSi funded research has been published on YouTube.

Speaker(s) : Martin Giese

Event : Forum Scientiarium Tübingen 

Place :  Tubingen, Germany

Date and Time : 09/07/2013

Partners : University of Tuebingen

Notes : 

Deliverable 1.5 "Report on contraints and rapresentation of motor primitives" is now available for download.

A new video featuring the AMARSi Oncilla robot is now available on YouTube  

A new video is available on YouTube

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 :

• "Robot cat" blends everything the Internet loves on CBSNEWS (June 2013)

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:

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 : 

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.

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)

Deliverable 4.5 "TR on the tuning and modification of timing strategies in primitive based learning" is now available for download.

A new video is made available by the University of Gent

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
                  - SLF

• COMAN Robot from the European #AMARSi Project featured on IEEE Spectrum.

Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil

Event : The Hand Embodied  (T

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

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

The deliverable 4.4
"Tools for analysing the stability of adaptive modules"
is now available for download.

Speaker(s) : Felix Reinhart

Event : IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Place : Osaka

Date and Time : 12/01/2012, 11:20 am

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

Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil

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.

Speaker(s) : Qian Zhao

Event : 2012 IEEE/RSJ Internattional Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems

Place : Portugal

Date and Time : 10/09/2012, 2:45 pm

Speakers: Cornelia Frank, Dr. William Land, Dr. Thomas Schack
Event: 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie
Place: Universitaet Bielefeld
Universitaetsstr. 25
33615 Bielefeld, Germany
Date: 25/09/2012

Speaker(s) : Felix Reinhart

Event : IEEE Third Joint International Conference on Development and Learning
and Epigenetic Robotics

Place : Osaka

Date and Time : 08/19/2012, 2:10 pm

Partners : Bielefeld University - CoR-Lab

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

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.

Talk : Arm movements and gait

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Speaker(s) : Yuri Ivanenko

Event : International Society for Posture and Gait Research Conference

Place : Trondheim, Norway

Date and Time : 06/25/2012, 11:00 am

Abstract :

Partners : SLF

Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil

Event : German-French Worksho

Speaker(s) : Mattia D'Andola

Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
(NCM)

Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy

Date and Time : 04/28/2012, 12:45 pm

Abstract :

Partners : SLF

Speaker(s) : Andrea d'Avella

Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
(NCM)

Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy

Date and Time : 04/28/2012, 10:45 am

Abstract :

Partners : SLF

Speaker(s) : Michael MacLellan

Event : Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
(NCM)

Place : Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy

Date and Time : 04/24/2012, 1:00 pm

Abstract :

Partners : SLF

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.

Speaker(s) : Jochen Steil

Event : 3th Bielefeld-Osaka c

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
  - UZH - AILab

In Spring 2012, H. Jaeger holds a research seminar within the Smart Systems CS graduate program on “Neural Architectures forArtificial Cognitive Agents”

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.

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”.

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

Workshop organized and attended by Thomas Schack and William Land. AMARSi WP1 Workshop.

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.

Yuri Ivanenko participated in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., USA.

Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Research opportunities for soft robotics”. Northwestern Polytechical University, Xi’an, China, November 2011

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.

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.

Yuri Ivanenko participated in the 6th International Posture and Gait Symposium in Slovakia.

Morphological computation - introduction and basic concepts. 2nd Int. Conference on Morphological Computation, ECLT, Venice.
http://morphcomp.org/pdfs/ICMC2011_Proceedings.pdf

Jochen Steil partecipated to a workshop at DAGM, Frankfurt. “Neurons Driving Cognitive Robots”, keynote, Worshop NC2 - New Challenges in Neural Computation

Jochen Steil at TU Munich. Title: “From Cognitive Robotics to Biomimetic Systems”.

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.

Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics, self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration”. ATR, Kyoto, July 2011.

Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Research opportunities for soft robotics”. School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.

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”.

By Jochen Steil at Honda Research. Title: “Random Projections in Neural Learning”.

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

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 “.

Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics - Self-organization, embodiment, and biological inspiration”. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.

Rolf Pfeifer presened a tutorial: “A primer on embodied cognition”. ICRA 2011, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai.

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.

Yuri Ivanenko participated in the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement.

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”.

Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Designing the 21st Century”. Nanyang Polytechnic (Youth Achievement Award Counsil), April 2011.

Rolf Pfeifer gave a talk: “Soft robotics, self-organization, and biological inspiration (the academic approach)”. National University of Singapore.

Yuri Ivanenko gave a talk at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Enrico Chiovetto attended the 9th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (Göttingen, Germany).

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

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

Second semester 2011-2012: organization workshops and competition of (robot) Race of Champions, Francis wyffels, Tim Waegeman, Pieter-Jan Kindermans.

Seungsu Kim Program participated to The iCub Summer School, Veni Vidi Vici 2011 Link: http://eris.liralab.it/summerschool2011/index.shtml

Barliya A. "Revealing control strategies: Investigating Kinematic Representations" USC, Brandeis university, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and Columbia University NY uknown date

Francis wyffels, Ken Caluwaerts and Tim Waegeman participated to the AMARSi Workshops: Hands-on introduction to Reservoir Computing, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (2011)

onWorkshop on Compu. Intelligence

Talk/Workshop, Organizer, at Humanoids 2010, Nashville http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/The_iCub_Humanoids_%2710_workshop
on 7/12/2010

Forum maschinenbau, Industrial Fair on 10/11/2010

Discussions with Talk Marc Toussaint (Berlin)  and Matt Botvinick (Princeton) on 25/10/2010

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.

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 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.

Invitation of  Marc Toussaint (Berlin) on 6/8/2010Partner: Tübingen

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

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.

At the Automatica Fair on the 6/10/2010

Partnert: UniBi

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

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.

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

Hannover Industrial Fair on 10/4/2010

12. Neural Computation and Psycholog 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.

Availabe on the project website

“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.  

J. Steil

UniBi

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

 San Sebastian, distribution of fact sheet by Markus Vince

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.

Developing Actuators with RichMotor Properties for Emerging Humanoids, SIMPAR 2010, Workshop on Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids. N.G. Tsagarakis