EWLR 8 Programme

9.00-9.20am Registration and Coffee

First Session

9.20-9.30am Opening Remarks
9.30-10.10am Invited Speaker: Henrik Lund, Aarhus University, Denmark
Evolutionary Robotics with LEGO Mindstorms
abstract
10.10-10.40 Toward Seamless Transplantation from Simulated to Real Worlds: A Dynamically-Rearranging Neural Network Approach
Peter Eggenberger, Akio Ishiguro, Seiji Tohura, Takeshi Kawashima and Takeshi Aoki
ATR Labs/Nagoya Univ/DENSO Corp, Japan
10.40-11.10 Embodied Evolution: A response to challenges in evolutionary robotics
Sevan Ficici, Richard Watson and Jordan Pollack
Brandeis University, USA
11:10 - 11.30 Coffee

Second Session

11.30-12.10 Invited Speaker: Jun Tani, Sony CSL, Japan
Robot Cognition from the Dynamical Systems Perspective
12.10-12.40 Learning robot control by relational concept induction with iteratively collected examples
Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Taichi Onda and Jidenori Itoh
Nagoya Inst.of Tech, Japan
12.40-1.10 How does a robot find redundancy by itself? A control architecture for adaptive multi-DOF robots
Koh Hosoda and Minoru Asada
Osaka University, Japan
1.10 - 2.15pm Lunch in the University Tavern (the cost of lunch is not included in the registration fee)

Afternoon Session

2.15-2.45 Reinforcement learning in situated agents: Some Theoretical Problems and Practical Solutions
Mark Pendrith
University of New South Wales, Australia
2.45-3.15 A planning map for mobile robots: speed control and path finding in a changing environment
Mathias Quoy, Phillipe Gaussier, S Lepretre, A Revel, C Joulain and JP Banquet
ETIS lab Cergy-Pontoise, France
3.15 - 3.30 Tea
3.30 - 4.00 Constraint based Memory Units for Reactive Navigation Learning
Frederic Davesne and Claude Barret
CEMIF, France
4.00 - 4.30 Probabilistic and Count Methods in Map Building for Autonomous Mobile Robots
M Rodriguez, Jose Correa, R Iglesias, C Regueiro and S Barro
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
4.30 - 5.00 Tea and Panel Discussion