| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 10.40-11.10 |
Embodied Evolution: A response to challenges in
evolutionary robotics Sevan Ficici, Richard Watson and Jordan Pollack Brandeis University, USA |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |