Oct. 2nd

 

 

 

Session & Name

Title

8:00-8:15

 

Introductory Remarks

 

beyond Motion

 

8:15-9:15

Florentin Wörgötter

AI and Cognitive Robotics

9:15-10:15

Yiannis Demiris

Recognizing and Assisting Human Actions: a hierarchical, predictive approach

10:15-10:30

Coffee

 

10:30-11:30

Ales Ude

Dynamic systems in robot skill learning

11:30-13:00

 

Informal interactive session with speakers

 

 

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

beyond Vision

 

14:00-15:00

Ales Leonardis

Hierarchical Compositional Representations for Computer Vision

15:00-16:00

Antonis Argyros

Tracking hands and hand-object interactions

16:00-16:30

Coffee

 

16:30-17:30

Lourdes Agapito

Reconstructing non-rigid scenes from a single camera

17:30-18:15

Elena Ceseracciu

Tool-use generalization on the iCub humanoid platform

 

Miha Denisa

Synthesizing new control policies in a hierarchical database

 

Severin Fichtl

Learning spatial relations between objects from 3D scenes

 

 

 

18:30-19:30

Dinner

 

19:30

 

Informal interactive session with speakers

 

 

 

 

Oct. 3rd

 

 

 

Session & Name

Title

 

Humans&Robots

 

8:00-9:00

Frank Guerin

Mechanisms underlying infants' bootstrapping of physical world knowledge and object manipulation skills

9:00-10:00

Kerstin Fischer

Humans and robots

10:00-10:15

Coffee

 

10:15-11:15

Bruno Siciliano

Grasping and Control of Multi-fingered Hands

11:15-13:00

 

Informal interactive session with speakers

 

 

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Communication

 

14:00-15:00

Angelo Cangelosi

Embodiment and Language Acquisition in Humanoid Robots

15:00-16:00

Katerina Pastra

Robots need a Semantic Memory:  Going beyond one-shot learning in Robotics

16:00-16:30

Coffee

 

16:30-17:15

Bradley H. Hayes

Social hierarchical learning

 

Matteo Menna

Learning the dynamic process of inhibition and task switching in

robotics cognitive control

 

David Schiebener

Physical interaction for autonomous segmentation and grasping of

unknown objects by a humanoid robot

 

 

 

18:00-19:00

Dinner

 

19:30

 

Informal interactive session with speakers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct. 4th

 

 

 

Session & Name

Title

 

Structural Bootstrapping in Xperience

 

8:30-9:15

Tamim Asfour

The Xperience Project: What is Structural Bootstrapping?

9:15-10:00

Mohamad Aein

A library of manipulation actions based on semantic object relations

 

Aris Valtazanos

Decision shaping in multi-robot interactions

 

Hanchen Xiong

Homogeneity analysis for object-action relation learning

Free time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17:30-18:30

Bernhard Hommel

Integrating perception and action

18:45-19:45

Dinner

 

20:00-21:30

Poster Session

Poster Session with beer, wine (softdrinks….), and nibbles

 

 

 

 

Oct. 5th

 

 

 

Session & Name

Title

 

Cognition

 

8:00-9:00

Tom Henderson

Symmetry and Structural Bootstrapping

9:00-10:00

David Vernon

Navigating the mazes of autonomy & embodiment in cognitive systems

10:00-10:15

Coffee

 

10:15-11:15

Fiora Pirri

Flexible planning, high level control and task switching

11:15-13:00

 

Informal interactive session with speakers

 

 

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Systems

 

14:00-15:00

Gordon Cheng

Xperience in building humanoid systems

15:00-16:00

Mark Lee

A psychology based approach for longitudinal development in cognitive robotics

16:00-16:30

Coffee

 

16:30-17:30

Helge Ritter

Manual action - from single functions to systems

17:30-18:15

Jeremie Papon

Segmentation and tracking of objects in pointclouds

 

Maria Vanessa aus der Wieschen

Improvement of the Marvin platform

 

Emre Ugur

Parental scaffolding as a bootstrapping mechanism for learning imitation skills

 

 

 

18:30-19:30

Dinner

 

19:30-20:30

 

Informal interactive session with speakers

20:30

Farewell Party

Hope you enjoyed it

 

 

 

 

Poster Presentations

 

Abdolmaleki, Abbas

Trajectory planning for humanoid omnidirectional walking

Aksoy, Eren Erdal

Piaget with Robots: Assimilation and accommodation using the semantics of actions

Bevec, Robert

Interactive object learning enhanced by foveated vision

Ferri, Federico

Autonomous planning and execution in situation calculus

González Aguirre, David Israel

Optimal exposure for acquisition of high-dynamic-range images by humanoid robots

Hangl, Simon

Learning atomic manipulations with DMPs

Jensen, Lars Christian

Screen captures in procedural instructions

Joshi, Anschul

The cognitive symmetry engine

Kulvicius, Tomas

Semantic image search for robotic applications

Mar, Tanis

Learning affordances for and from grasping

Moro, Federico

An attractor-based whole-body motion control (WBMC) system for humanoid robots

Popa, Mirela Carmia

Shopping behavior assessment

Reich, Simon

Semantic event exchange planner for hand-object relations

Ridge, Barry

Action-grounded push affordance bootstrapping of unknown objects

Rietzler, Alexander

Generalizing grasps to novel objects by combining

part-based planning and estimation of objects inertial parameters

Roncone, Alessandro

A model of peripersonal space on the iCub

Schill, Julian

Using haptic perception for reactive grasping and measuring

deformability

Schoeler, Markus

Fast on-line object recognition for robotic applications

Schulz, Sebastian

Incremental geometrical construction of motion graphs

based on binary space partitioning

Shukla, Dadhichi

Learning a visual model of a robot arm

Tamošiūnaitė, Minija

Data structure for manipulation action generalization

Tang Thomsen, Mikkel

Statistical identiffication of composed visual features indicating high-likelihood of grasp success

Vuga, Rok

Extraction of motion primitives using semantic events along with parametric hidden Markov models for learning and recognition of manipulation tasks

Wächter, Mirko

Seamless motion generation using dynamic movement

primitives and action sequence reproduction using Vicon

Xiong, Xiaofeng

Neuromechanical Control of a Six-Legged Robot