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Detailed programme now included!
For a printable version of the programme, download this
PostScript or PDF format
copy.
Here is a
map showing the relationship between the city centre (top:
castle, palace), George Square (centre), and Pollock Halls (green).
All talks take place in
David Hume Tower
Lecture Theatre A, on the SE corner of
George Square,
Edinburgh.
Posters and poster sessions will be in the concourse outside the canteen.
Email access will be available throughout.
| 19:30 - 22:00 |
SUNDAY 4th August |
Reception in
South Hall, Pollock Halls.
Registration will also be open. |
| M O R N I N G S |
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Monday 5th |
Tuesday 6th |
Wednesday 7th |
Thursday 8th |
Friday 9th |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration |
|
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Welcome |
"Pulses (Probably) and Strange Neural Hardware"
Alan Murray |
"From structure and materials to flight behaviour"
Robin Wootton |
"Learning and Imitation in Humanoid Robots"
Stefan Schaal |
Late start ! |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
"The Origin of `Feel' "
Kevin O'Regan |
"Action from thoughts: Building a neuroprosthesis to restore neurological function"
Miguel Nicolelis |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
coffee break and announcements |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
coffee |
Poster spotlights 2 |
Poster spotlights 4 |
Poster spotlights 5 |
coffee |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
SESSION I:
Perception |
SESSION IV:
Neural Networks |
SESSION VII:
The Effect of Hardware |
SESSION VIII:
Vision |
SESSION XI:
Biological Simulations |
| 12:15 - 14:30 |
LUNCH (organise your own) |
| A F T E R N O O N S |
| |
Monday 5th |
Tuesday 6th |
Wednesday 7th |
Thursday 8th |
Friday 9th |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
SESSION II:
Action Selection |
SESSION V:
Multi-agent Systems |
Demos and lab tours |
SESSION IX:
Learning |
SESSION XII:
Evolving Neurocontrollers |
| 15:45 - 16:20 |
tea break |
tea break |
tea break |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
Poster spotlights 1 |
Poster spotlights 3 |
Poster spotlights 6 |
tea break and discussion of conference |
| 16:40 - 17:30 |
SESSION III:
Internal considerations |
SESSION VI:
Navigation |
SESSION X:
Sensory-Motor Couplings |
|
| 17:30 - 17:50 |
EU funding talk |
Poster Sessions
Groups 1, 2, and 3.
In concourse. |
Poster Sessions
Groups 4, 5, and 6.
In concourse. | |
| - - 19:30 | |
Organisers' dinner |
| 19:30 for 20:00 - - | Wednesday 7th |
Conference Banquet in Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge. |
Posters will be exhibited in the
concourse outside the cafeteria underneath DHT. There will be two
sets:
Set 1 has from Monday morning until Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.
Their spotlight sessions are on Monday and Tuesday, with
their main viewing session on Tuesday evening.
Set 2 has from Wednesday morning until Friday.
Their spotlight sessions are on Wednesday and
Thursday, with the main viewing session on Thursday evening.
Workshops and tutorials
take place on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th August in Adam Ferguson building
(next to David Hume Tower) meeting rooms.
NB: NO SMOKING is allowed indoors,
anywhere in the University.
A large Social Programme
is provided courtesy of
Edinburgh Festival and
Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
SUNDAY 11th Aug is Fringe Sunday, a big jamboree including processions
and free fringe shows in Holyrood Park.
Detailed Programme Begins here
Obviously, we reserve the right to change it, but we hope not to.
For a printable version of this programme, download this
PostScript or PDF format
copy.
| M O N D A Y
5th A U G U S T 2002 |
|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Welcome: John Hallam |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
"The Origin of `Feel' "
Kevin O'Regan and Alva Noë |
| | 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
| SESSION I: Perception |
|---|
"Active Perception: A Sensorimotor Account of Object Categorization"
Stefano Nolfi and Davide Marocco |
"Environment-Specific Novelty Detection"
Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow and Jonathan Shapiro |
"On the Use of Sensors in Self-Reconfigurable Robots"
K. Støy and W.-M. Shen and P. Will |
|
| 12:15 - 14:30 |
LUNCH (organise your own) |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
| SESSION II: Action Selection |
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"Behaviour Selection on a Mobile Robot using W-learning"
Martin Hallerdal and John Hallam |
"Comparing a Brain-inspired Robot Action Selection Mechanism with Winner-takes-all"
Benoît Girard, Vincent Cuzin, Agnès Guillot, Kevin Gurney, and Tony J. Prescott |
"Competitative Foraging, Decision Making, and the Ecological Rationality of the Matching Law "
Anil K. Seth |
|
| 15:45 - 16:20 | tea break |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
| Poster Spotlights 1 |
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"Navigation in Unforeseeable and Unstable Environments: A Taxonomy of Environments"
Laurent Signac and Jean-Denis Fouks |
"Whisking: An Unexplored Sensory Modality"
Max Lungarella, Verena V. Hafner, Rolf Pfeifer, and Hiroshi Yokoi |
"Using IIDs to Estimate Sound Source Direction"
Leslie S. Smith |
"Adaptive Leg Placement Strategies in the Fruit Fly set an Example for Six-legged Walking Systems"
Simon Pick and Roland Strauss |
"Behavior Coordination for a Mobile Visuo-Motor System in an Augmented Real-World Environment"
Dimitrij Surmeli and Horst-Michael Gross |
"Compromise Candidates in Positive Goal Scenarios"
Frederick L. Crabbe |
|
| 16:40 - 17:30 |
|
SESSION III: Internal Considerations |
|---|
"Self Organisation in a Simple Task of Motor Control"
Christian R. Linder |
"An Evolutionary Approach to Quantify Internal States Needed for the Woods Problem"
DaeEun Kim and John Hallam |
|
| 17:30 - 17:50 |
"FET: Complex Systems and Robotics"
Ralph Dum |
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| T U E S D A Y
6th A U G U S T 2002 |
|---|
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
"Pulses (Probably) and Strange Neural Hardware"
Alan Murray |
| | 10:00 - 10:30 | coffee |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Announcements |
| Poster Spotlights 2 |
|---|
"Relating Behavior Selection Architectures to Environmental Complexity"
Orlando Avila-García, Elena Hafner and Lola Cañamero |
"Learning Default Mappings and Exception Handling"
Fredrik Linaker and Nicklas Bergfeldt |
"Asynchronous Learning by Emotions and Cognition"
Sandra Clara Gadanho and Luis Custodio |
"Behaviour Control Using a Functional and Emotional Model"
Ignasi Cos and Gillian Hayes |
"The Road Sign Problem Revisited: Handling Delayed Response Tasks with Neural Robot Controllers"
Mikael Thieme and Tom Ziemke |
"Development of the First Sensory-motor Stages: A Contribution to Imitation"
Pierre Andry, Philippe Gaussier, and Jacqueline Nadel |
|
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
| SESSION IV: Neural Networks |
|---|
" Evolution of a Circuit of Spiking Neurons for Phototaxis in a Braitenberg Vehicle"
R. L. B. French and R. I. Damper |
"Localization of Function in Neurocontrollers"
Lior Segev, Ranit Aharonov, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin |
"Using a Net to Catch a Mate: Evolving CtrNNs for the Dowry Problem"
Elio Tuci, Inman Harvey, and Peter M. Todd |
|
| 12:15 - 14:30 |
LUNCH (organise your own) |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
| SESSION V: Multi-agent Systems |
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"Minimalist Coherent Swarming of Wireless Networked Autonomous Mobile Robots"
Julien Nembrini, Alan Winfield, and Chris Melhuish |
"Phonemic Coding Might Result from Sensory-motor Coupling Dynamics"
Pierre-yves Oudeyer |
"Constructing Complex Minds through Multiple Authors"
Mark Humphrys and Ciarán O'Leary |
|
| 15:45 - 16:20 | tea break |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
| Poster Spotlights 3 |
|---|
"The Digital Hormone Model for Self-Organization"
Wei-Min Shen and Cheng-Ming Chuong |
"Fast Homeostatic Neural Oscillators Induce Radical Robustness in Robot Performance"
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo |
"Evolving Hierarchical Coordination in Simulated Annelid Locomotion"
Edgar E. Vallejo and Fernando Ramos |
"Small is Beautiful: Near Minimal Evolutionary Neurocontrollers Obtained With Self-Organizing Compressed Encoding"
Shlomy Boshy and Eytan Ruppin |
"How Useful is Lifelong Evolution for Robotics?"
Joanne Walker and Myra Wilson |
"What is Important for Realizing an Autonomous Interactive Robot?"
Takanori Komatsu, Kentaro Suzuki, Natsuki Oka, Kazuhiro Ueda, and Kazuo Hiraki |
|
| 16:40 - 17:30 |
|
SESSION VI: Navigation |
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"Global Localization and Topological Map Learning for Robot Navigation"
David Filliat and Jean-Arcady Meyer |
"Learning to Autonomously Select Landmarks for Navigation and Communication "
Jason Fleischer and Stephen Marsland | |
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|
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
| P O S T E R S E S S I O N O N E |
| Spotlight groups 1, 2, and 3 above |
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| W E D N E S D A Y
7th A U G U S T 2002 |
|---|
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
"From structure and materials to flight behaviour:
fitness for purpose in insect wings""
Robin Wootton |
| | 10:00 - 10:30 | coffee |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Announcements |
| Poster Spotlights 4 |
|---|
"Evolvability and Analysis of Robot Control Networks"
Tom Smith, Phil Husbands, and Michael O'Shea |
"Co-evolving Robot Soccer Behavior"
Esben Østergaard and Henrik Hautop Lund |
"Conditions for the Evolution of Mimicry"
Daniel W. Franks and Jason Noble |
"Ecological Disturbance Maintains and Promotes Biodiversity in an Artificial Plant Ecology"
Ben Clark and Seth Bullock |
"Multi-object Segregation: Ant-like Brood Sorting Using Minimalism Robots"
Matt Wilson, Chris Melhuish, and Ana Sendova-Franks |
"Building Adaptive Structure Formations with Decentralised Control and Coordination"
Jan Wessnitzer, and Chris Melhuish |
|
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
| SESSION
VII: The Effect of Hardware |
|---|
"Agent-based Modelling and the Environmental Complexity Thesis"
Anil K. Seth |
"A Method for Isolating Morphological Effects on Evolved Behaviour"
Josh C. Bongard and Rolf Pfeifer |
"An Activation Based Behaviour Control Architecture for Walking Machines"
Jan Albiez, Tobias Luksch, Karsten Berns, and Rüdiger Dillmann |
|
| 12:15 - 14:30 |
LUNCH (organise your own) |
| Afternoon |
Demos and tours of local labs
Details to be announced
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| T H U R S D A Y
8th A U G U S T 2002 |
|---|
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
"Learning and Imitation in Humanoid Robots"
Stefan Schaal |
|
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
coffee |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Announcements |
| Poster Spotlights 5 |
|---|
"Sharing a Charging Station without Explicit Communication in Collective Robotics"
Angélica Muñoz-Meléndez, François Sempe, and Alexis Drogoul |
"Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Individuality and its Maintenance"
Alexandra Penn |
"Learning Social Behaviors without Sensing"
Anand Panangadan and Michael G. Dyer |
"Spatial Coordination through Social Potential Fields and Genetic Algorithms"
Fabien Flacher and Olivier Sigaud |
"Learning in Multi-Robot Scenarios through Physically Embedded Genetic Algorithms"
Ulrich Nehmzow |
"Designing Social Force: Control for Collective Behavior of Learning Individuals"
Keiki Takadama and Katsunori Shimohara |
|
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
| SESSION VIII: Vision |
|---|
"Genetic Programming for Robot Vision"
Martin C. Martin |
"Visual Orientation and Motion Control of MAKRO -- Adaptation to the Sewer
Environment"
Marina Kolesnik and Hermann Streich |
"Active Vision and Feature Selection in Evolutionary Behavioral Systems"
Davide Marocco and Dario Floreano |
|
| 12:15 - 14:30 |
LUNCH (organise your own) |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
| SESSION IX: Learning |
|---|
"Timed Delivery of Reward Signals in an Autonomous Robot"
William H. Alexander and Olaf Sporns |
"Using Markovian Decision Problems to Analyze Animal Performance in Random
and Variable Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement"
Jérémie Jozefowiez, Jean-Claude Darcheville, and Philippe Preux |
"Testing the Ecological Rationality of Base Rate Neglect"
Peter M. Todd and Adam S. Goodie |
|
| 15:45 - 16:20 | tea break |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
| Poster Spotlights 6 |
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"Sequential Task Execution in a Minimalist Distributed Robotic System"
Chris Jones and Maja J. Mataric |
"Fleet Dynamics and Information Exchange Simulation Modeling with Artificial Neural Networks"
Michel Dreyfus-Leon and Daniel Gaertner |
"Synthetic Social Relationships in Animated Virtual Characters"
Bill Tomlinson and Bruce Blumberg |
"Can a Dog tell the Difference ? Dogs Encounter AIBO, an Animal-like Robot in Two Social Situations"
Enikö Kubinyi, Ádám Miklósi, Frédéric Kaplan, Márta Gácsi, József Topál, and Vilmos Csányi |
"Exploring the Impact of Contextual Input on the Evolution of Word-meaning"
Paul Vogt and Hans Coumans |
"Language Adaptation Helps Language Acquisition"
Willem Zuidema | | list |
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| 16:40 - 17:30 |
| SESSION X: Sensory-motor Couplings |
"A Context-based Architecture for General Problem Solving"
R. C. Peterson |
"Articulation of Sensory-Motor Experiences by ``Forwarding Forward Model''
: From Robot Experiments to Phenomenology"
Jun Tani |
|
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
| P O S T E R S E S S I O N T W O |
Spotlight groups 4, 5, and 6 above
Held by the posters, in the concourse. |
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| F R I D A Y 9th A U G U S T 2002 |
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| Note the slightly later start! |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
| "Action from thoughts: Building a neuroprosthesis to restore neurological function" |
| Miguel Nicolelis |
| | 10:30 - 11:00 |
coffee |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
| SESSION
XI: Biological Simulations |
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"Cortico-Hippocampal Maps and Navigation Strategies in Robots and Rodents" | |
Jean Paul Banquet, Philippe Gaussier, Mathias Quoy, Arnaud Revel, and Yves Burnod | |
"Simulations of Learning and Behaviour in the Hawkmoth Deilephila elpeno" | |
Anna Balkenius, Almut Kelber, and Christian Balkenius | |
"Introducing Chronicity: a Quantitative Measure of Self/Non-self in the Immune Response" | |
Yoshiki Kashimori, Yoshihiro Ochi, MeiHong Zheng, and Takeshi Kambara |
|
| 12:15 - 14:30 |
LUNCH break |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
| SESSION XII: Evolving Neurocontrollers |
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"Levels of Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior in Evolutionary Neural Controllers" | |
Jesper Blynel and Dario Floreano | |
"Evolving Integrated Controllers for Autonomous Learning Robots using Dynamic Neural Networks" | |
Elio Tuci, Inman Harvey, and Matt Quinn | |
"Evolution of Efficient Swimming Controllers for a Simulated Lamprey" | |
Jimmy (Hajime) Or, John Hallam, David Willshaw, and Auke Ijspeert |
|
| 15:45 - - |
Discussion of conference |
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