SOCORO Summer School Students
| Annica Kristoffersson | ||
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Current affiliation: PhD Student in Information Technology at the Mobile Robotics Lab, AASS (Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems), Örebro University Other affiliation: Home country: Sweden Website: http://www.aass.oru.se Email: annica.kristoffersson@oru.se, kristoffersson.annica@gmail.com |
Languages: Swedish (Mother tongue), English, a little French |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| My thesis will mainly be based on the results from two related
projects in which I am currently involved:
-ExCITE (Enabling SoCial Interaction Through Embodiment) and -REmOTE (Robotic tElepresence fOr distributed CarE) Main research directions: -Analysis of user requirements of social interaction that enables embodiment through robotic telepresence. -Robotic assistance in elder care -Analysis of longterm interaction from several perspectives: the elderly, family/friends, health care professionals etc. -Non-lab environments evaluations |
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| Olesya Ogorodnikova | ||
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Current affiliation: PhD Student, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Other affiliation: Home country: Russia Website: Email: olessia@git.bme.hu |
Languages: Russian(mother tongue), English, German, French, Hungarian |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| Human Robot Interaction: The Safety Challenge (An integrated framework for human safety) Main research directions: 1. Human Centered Workplace Design 2. Safeguarding Systems and Risk Analysis for HRI |
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| Polychronis Kondaxakis | ||
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Current affiliation: Founder of NOVOCAPTIS Cognitive Systems and Robotics (startup company) Other affiliation: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Electrical & Computers Engineering, Automation & Robotics Laboratory Home country: Greece Website: Email: p.kondaxakis@ieee.org |
Languages: Greek (native speaker), English (fluently) |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| A Modular Framework for Multi-robot Localization Scenarios Main Research Directions: 1. Kalman filter estimation for localization and sensor fusion in a team of mobile robots 2. Distribution techniques of Extended Kalman Filter algorithm for collective localization and mapping purposes | ||
| Catalina Roncancio Valencia | ||
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Current affiliation: Researcher. CARTIF foundation, Spain. Other affiliation: PhD Student, University of Valladolid, Spain Home country: Colombia Website: Email: catron@cartif.es catalina.roncancio@ieee.org |
Languages: Spanish (mother Language), English |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| Adaptive intelligent behavior, concerning autonomous social robots that can interact in a natural and compliant way in our society. Focus on social interactions, with particular emphasis on the roles that emotional phenomena play in them.
Main research directions: 1. Provide a social dimension on HRI. 2. Raises the believability and perceived trustworthiness of the conversational agents. | ||
| Mor Vered | ||
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Current affiliation: M.Sc. Student, Computer Science, Bar Ilan University Other affiliation: Home country: Israel Website: Email: varditmor@walla.com |
Languages: Hebrew, English |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| Implementation of Social Comparison Using Cognitive Architecture" with the guidance of advisor, Prof. Gal Kaminka. In pursuit of the ultimate goal – to create a robot that interacts smoothly within a human environment. | ||
| Alexander Petrov | ||
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Current affiliation: PhD Student, Rybinsk State Academy of Aviation Technology (RSAAT) Other affiliation: Collaborator of ISA RAN Intelligent and dynamic systems lab (http://www.isa.ru/index.php?lang=en), Collaborator of MC# Team (www.mcsharp.net) Member of IEEE Signal Processing, Computer, Robotics and Automation societies Home country: Russia Website:www.rgata.ru\sites\mpoevs Email: skb-it@rgata.ru |
Languages: Russian (mother tongue), English |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| Cognitive modeling of motives-based mobile robot's autonomous goals generation. Main research directions: Architecture of embodiment intelligent agent Make robot's vision components more deliberative dependent | ||
| Mircea Hulea | ||
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Current affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher at Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Other affiliation: Home country: Romania Website: www.ac.tuiasi.ro Email: mhulea@tuiasi.ro |
Languages: Romanian (Mother tongue), English, little French |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| Development of biomimetic
cognitive-sensorial systems based
on analog neural networks Doctoral research topic: Development of a system suitable for speaker independent speech recognition based on networks of spiking neurons |
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| Manuel Birlo | ||
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Current affiliation: PhD student, Cognitive Robotics Lab/UEI, ENSTA ParisTech Other affiliation: Home country: Germany Website: Email: manuel.birlo@ensta.fr |
Languages: german, english, french |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| Development of a cognitive architecture that improves the interaction possibilities of a humanoid robot during an socially assistive long time therapy with a patient Main research directions: - overall research framework: Socially Assistive Robotics - special research directions: improving the robot's capability to recognize and perceive humans that act in it's visual range as well as their internal states, attributes and activities; - robot learning aspects: 1.) How to learn optimal models for verbal and non-verbal communication cues in order to achieve engagement and natural communication with the patient? 2.) How to adapt those models to individual the patient's needs and personalities? | ||
| Sitar Kortik | ||
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Current affiliation: Ph.D. Student, Bilkent University, Turkey Other affiliation: Home country: Turkey Website:http://bdrl.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ Email: sitar@cs.bilkent.edu.tr |
Languages: Turkish (mother tongue), English |
| Thesis topic and Main research directions: | ||
| A Backwards theorem prover with focusing, resource management and constraints for robotic planning
within intuitionistic linear logic. Main research directions: 1. Robotic planning with Linear Logic 2. Coordination of multi robot with Linear Logic | ||
| Rusu Alexandru | ||
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Current affiliation: Master Student in the Erasmus Mundus VIBOT Master (Vision & Robotics) Other affiliation: Intern of the Underwater Robotics Department of the VICOROB Lab (Computer Vision and Robotics Group) located in the Institute of Informatics and Applications at the Universitat de Girona, Spain. Home country: Romania Website: Email: rusual@gmail.com, rusu_alexandru@rdslink.ro |
Languages: Romanian (Native Language), English (Proficient User). Spanish, German, French (Beginner level) |
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| An improved navigation system for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which combines navigation data from a Doppler velocity log (DVL), an Imaging Sonar (IS) and an ultra-short baseline (USBL) acousting tracking system to provide superior three-dimensional position estimates to the AUV in order to perform the task of visual inspection of hydroelectric dams. Research Directions: 1. Extended Kalman Filter for estimating the vehicle state ( position, heading and velocity) and its uncertainty using a stochastic sensor fusion algorithm. 2. A particle filter used to fuse the information from the sensors in order to give a geo-referenced position estimate. |
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