Full day Workshop

Cognitive Humanoid Robotics Research


In conjunction with the
2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Tuesday, November, 18, 2014, 8:50 - 17:30

 

Objectives


The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers from collaborative European projects funded under the Robotics Programme, to present achievements and highlights of their work in the area of humanoid robotics. The workshop will focus on cognitive capabilities applied to the key research challenges faced in this domain, notably knowledge representation, learning, grasping and dexterous manipulation, human-robot interaction, whole-body control and locomotion. The workshop will show the importance of the scientific and technical progress made for the future use of humanoid robots and humanoid technologies in a real-world context.

The European Union programme on Cognitive Systems & Robotics (now Robotics) has invested in the topics of artificial cognition for robotics since its inception in 2004. Amongst the hundred or so ongoing projects, roughly one third of them address humanoid–related issues. A key point of discussion in this workshop will be the future prospective for cognitive systems research in forthcoming EU programmes, research and innovation roadmaps.

Topics of interest:
  • Representation and Cognitive Architectures
  • Learning
  • Grasping and dexterous manipulation
  • Adaptive locomotion
  • Human-Robot-Interaction
  • Open Software and hardware platforms

 

Program


Title
8:50 Welcome and Introduction
Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Giorgio Metta Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
9:00 Joint research on human and humanoid cognition:
nature of nurture?

Giulio Sandini - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
» read abstract
9:45 Cognition for robotics in H2020
Cécile Huet - European Commission, Robotics, DG Connect, EC
10:00 Xperience - Robots Bootstrapped through Learning from Experience
Rüdiger Dillmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
» read abstract
10:15 Building biologically and psychologically grounded anthropomorphic machines: The Distributed Adaptive Control theory of mind, brain and behaviour
Paul Verschure - Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ICREA, Spain
» read abstract
10:30 Fundamental Cognitive Mechanisms for Humanoid Robots: The POETICON Contribution
Katerina Pastra - Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece
» read abstract
10:45 Break
11:15 AMARSi - Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills
Jochen Steil - Bielefeld University, Germany
» read abstract
11:30 The role of audio-visual fusion in human-robot interaction
Radu Horaud - INRIA, France
» read abstract
11:45 Neural Dynamics: how a theoretical language of embodied cognition and dynamical systems thinking enable cognitive robotic behaviours.
Yulia Sandamirskaya, Gregor Schoner - Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
» read abstract
12:00 Tactile sensing in manipulation: from humans to machine learning
Patrick van der Smagt - TU Munich, Germany
» read abstract
12:15 Whole-body compliant dynamical contacts in cognitive humanoids.
Francesco Nori - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
» read abstract
12:30 Lunch
14:00 THE Hand Embodied - Science and Technology going hand in hand
Antonio Bicchi - University of Pisa, Italy
» read abstract
14:15 Control Issues in Human-Robot Collaboration: Results from the SAPHARI project
Marilena Vendittelli, Alessandro De Luca - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
» read abstract
14:30 Results from the CYBERLEGs system and perspectives for wearable robotics
Nicola Vitiello - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
» read abstract
14:45 PacMan: Grasping in Unstructured Enviroments
Jeremy Wyatt - University of Birmingham, UK
» read abstract
15:00 The power of social humanoids: lessons from child-robot interaction
Tony Belpaeme - Plymouth University, UK
» read abstract
15:15 Break
15:45 COMAN Experience to WALK-MAN Humanoid: Development of Compliant Humanoids with Enhanced Physical Interaction and Efficient Performance.
Nikos Tsagarakis - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
» read abstract
16:00 KoroiBot - Developing Methods to improve humanoid walking capabilities
Katja Mombaur - University of Heidelberg, Germany
» read abstract
16:15 Integrative Approach for the Emergence of Human-like Robot Locomotion (H2R project)
Diego Torricelli, José L. Pons - CSIC, Spain
» read abstract
16:30 COMANOID: Multi-contact Collaborative Humanoids in Difficult Access Airliner Assembly Line Operation
Abdelrahman Kheddar - CNRS (France/Japan)
» read abstract
16:45 Panel Discussion
17:30 End

Speakers


  • Giulio Sandini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
  • Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
  • Abdelrahman Kheddar, CNRS (France/Japan)
  • Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa, Italy
  • Paul Verschure, Univeritat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  • Radu Horaud, INRIA, France
  • Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece
  • Marilena Vendittelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Jeremy Wyatt, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Jochen Steil, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Tony Belpaeme, Plymouth University, UK
  • Patrick van der Smagt, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
  • Nicola Vitiello, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
  • Nikos Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
  • Katja Mombaur, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • Diego Toricelli, CSIC, Spain
  • Francesco Nori, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy

 

Location


Melia Castilla Madrid, Patio 2 see Humanoids 2014 webpage.

 

Organizers


 

Contact


Tamim Asfour
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics