Program/Lecturers
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School presentations: Prof. Daniel David;
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
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Lectures and Instructors
Tue, July 13
T1.1. Fiorini: On-going research and current trends in social and cognitive robotics
T1.2. Alami: Architectures, representations, algorithms for robot autonomy
T1.3. Lefeber: Hardware design and software environment of a huggable robot (PROBOT)
LAB1: De Cubber Vision Lab
Wed, July 14
morning
LAB2
T2.1. Esposito: Considerations on gestures in space and time
T2.2 Erden: Social human-robot interaction: focus on generating emotional postures and behaviors with a humanoid robot
Wed 14th July
9:12:45 - LABS
L2 12:45 to 14 Lunch
T2.2 14 to 15:45 Esposito
CB2.2: 15:45 -to 16 Coffee Break
T2.2 16:-17:35 Erden
EVE2 18-21 Dinner and Discussions/Panel
Thu, July 15
T3.1. Berns: Humanoid robots: design, control, and human-robot interaction
T3.2 Minguez: Robot learning and control using brain waves
T3.3 David: Robotherapy: The use of robotics in psychology; Fundamentals and clinical applicationsLAB3: Implementation Project 1
Fri, July 16
T4: Joint plenary session of Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life: morning
This includes plenary talks from David
LAB 4 and Lab 5 : Implementation Project 2
* Peter Ford Dominey, France To be confirmed
Sat, July 17
T5.1 Stoica: Social and cognitive robotics: a look towards the future
LAB 6. Competition
Schedule (Tentative)
MON 12th July
All day: Arrival and check-in
6-8 pm Registration and welcome
TUE 13th July
T1.1 9 to 10:45am: Fiorini
CB1.1: 10:45 -to 11 Coffee Break
T1.2 11 to 12:45 Alami
L1 12:45 to 14 Lunch
T1.3 14 to 15:45 Lefeber
CB1.2: 15:45 -to 16 Coffee Break
Lab1 16:17:45 De Cubber Vision Lab
EVE1 18-21 Poster reception, welcome mixer
WED 14th July
T2.1 9 to 10:45am: Esposito
CB2.1: 10:45 -to 11 Coffee Break
T2.2 11 to 12:45 Chetouani
L2 12:45 to 14 Lunch
T2.3 14 to 15:45 Erden
CB2.2: 15:45 -to 16 Coffee Break
Lab2 16:17:45 NI LabView Robotics Lab
EVE2 18-21 Dinner and Discussions/Panel
THU 15th July
T3.1 9 to 10:45am: Berns
CB3.1: 10:45 -to 11 Coffee Break
T3.2 11 to 12:45 Minguez
L3 12:45 to 14 Lunch
T3.3 14 to 15:45 David
CB3.2: 15:45 -to 16 Coffee Break
Lab3 16:17:45 Project 1
EVE3 18-21 Free time
FRI 16th July
T4 9 to 12:45 AT-EQUAL Talks
L4 12:45 to 14 Lunch
Lab4 14 to 15:45 Project 2
CB4: 15:45 -to 16 Coffee Break
Lab5 16:17:45 Project 2 (contd)
EVE4 18-21 Farewell Party
SAT 17th July
T5.1 9 to 10:45am: Stoica
CB5.1: 10:45 -to 11 Coffee Break
LAB6 11 to 12:45 Competition
L5 12:45 to 14 Lunch
T5.2 14 to 15 Closing session
Lecturers' Bios
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Professor Paolo Fiorini
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Returned to native Italy in 2000, after
spending 15 years at NASA-JPL in USA, Professor Fiorini cumulates
almost 30 years of passioned discovery and development work in
robotics. He has brought important contributions in robotic
manipulation, human-robot interfaces, teleoperation,motion planning in
dynamic environments, planetary exploration, coordination of mobile
robots, service robotics, etc. Prof Fiorini is leading research
projects in various areas including medical robotics AccuRobAs,
Virtual
Abdomen, Haptics,
cognitive robotics (Xpero),
robot standards (RoSta,
Penelope,
etc. He has organized and chaired or co-chaired numerous conference and
workshops, including the robotic summer school |
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Directeur de Recherche CNRSSenior scientist at the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group from LAAS. Main research topics:* Mobile Robotics * Control Architectures * Multi-robot cooperation * Task and Motion Planning * Personal and Service Robotics * Human/Robot Interaction http://homepages.laas.fr/rachid/ |
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Anna Esposito is currently Associate Professor in Computer Science in the Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy; and Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. She has been Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, OH from 2000 to 2002 to which she is currently research affiliate. She also is affiliated with the University of Salerno (Italy), Department of Physics; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA, USA. Anna joined her current Department on November 1, 2002 where she teach classes on Fundamentals of Computer Science and on Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues of Multimodal Communication. At the University of Salerno (Italy), Anna taught classes in Cybernetics, and at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies she taught classes in Neural Networks, Speech Processing, Information Theory and Coding. Anna current research interests are on the meta-features of verbal and non verbal communication, and in particular on cross-modal analysis of speech, gesture, and facial expression of emotions. Further research interests are on signal processing, language disorders, multimedia applications for disabled persons, and modelling and applications of neural networks. She is author of more than 100 publications on international journals, books, and international conference proceedings, and editor of 12 international books. Anna is currently the chair of COST Action 2102 " Cross Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication" funded by COST "European Cooperation in Science and Technology" |
 Professor Dirk Lefeber
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Professor Dirk Lefeber is head of the Robotics and Multibody Mechanics Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interests are new actuators with adaptable compliance, dynamically balanced robots, robot assistants, rehabilitation robotics and multibody dynamics. |
 Professor Dr. Karsten Berns
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Professor Dr. Karsten Berns studied computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern from 1982 to 1988. He specialised in artificial intelligence. His diploma thesis was the development of a diagnosis system for the classification of cancer cells. In 1994 he received his PhD. from the University of Karlsruhe. The topic of his Thesis was "Neural Networks for the Control of a six-legged Walking Machine". From 1989 till April 2003 he was employed at the Research Center of Information Technologies (FZI) at the University of Karlsruhe where he led the group "Interactive Diagnosis- and Servicesystems" (IDS). During this time his research work was focused on the development of technical diagnosis systems as well as the realisation of adaptive control concepts for service robots. Since April 2003 he is a full professor for robotic systems at Kaiserslautern University of Technology. Present research arctivities are in the area of autonomous mobile robots and humanoid robots with a strong focus on control system architecture and behaviour-based control. |
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Prof. Javier Minguez (S’00–A’02)
received the physics science degree in 1996 from the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, and the Ph.D. degree in computer
science and systems engineering in 2002 from the University of
Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. During this period, in 1999 he was with the
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group, LAASCNRS, Toulouse, France,
for eight months. In 2000, he visited the Robot and Computer Vision
Laboratory (ISR-IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal,
for ten months. In 2001, he was with the Robotics Laboratory, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, for five months. From 2003 to 2008 he was
Ramón y Cajal researcher in the University of Zaragoza. In 2008
he was visiting professor at the Institute of Medical Psychology and
Behavioural Neurobiology, Tubingen, Germany for six months. Since 2008,
he is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Systems
Engineering in the University of Zaragoza. His research activity is
framed within the Robotics and Real Time Group of the University of
Zaragoza and the Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería
de Aragón. His research interests are mobile robot navigation
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Professor Dr. Mohamed Chetouani is the head of the Artificial Perception research group. He received the M.S. degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems from the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, 2001. He received the PhD degree in Speech Signal Processing from the same university in 2004. In 2005, he was an invited Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of Stirling (UK). Dr. Chetouani was also an invited researcher at the Signal Processing Group of Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro, Barcelona (Spain). He is currently an Associate Professor in Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition at the University Pierre et Marie Curie. His research activities, carried out at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, cover the areas of non-linear signal processing, feature extraction, pattern classification and fusion for human centered interaction analysis: verbal and non-verbal communication, physiological signals. He is member of the Management Committee for the COST action 2102: "Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication". He is an Associate Editor of the Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer) and a Guest Editor for a Special Issue in Speech Communication on "Non-Linear and Non- Conventional Speech Processing". He was the Chairman of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non-Linear Speech Processing in 2007. He is also the co-chairman of the French Working Group on Human-Robots/Systems Interaction (GDR Robotique CNRS). In 2008, he leaded the project titled: Multi-Modal Communication with Virtual Agents and Robots for the 4th international summer workshop on Multi-Modal Interfaces (eNTERFACE'08). |
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Dr. Mustafa Suphi Erden was born in Ankara, Turkey. He received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. He worked as a research assistant in the same department between 1999 and 2006. His PhD thesis is titled as "Six legged walking machine: the Robot EA-308". He designed and implemented the six-legged robot and used it to work on machine learning, optimal torque distribution, leg trajectory optimization, and energy efficient gait patterns. He worked as a post-doc researcher in Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, between 2007 and 2010. In Delft he worked on physical human-robot interaction, identifying skills in manual welding, assisting skill requiring manipulative tasks with robot, function modeling and design of mechatronics systems. He is currently working in Cognitive Robotics Laboratory at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA-ParisTech), Paris. He has been conducting research on social human-robot interaction, specifically on generating emotional postures and behaviors with a humanoid robot. |
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Dr. Geert De Cubber specializes in computer vision. He obtained the degree of Master in Engineering and his PhD. at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His area of expertise includes the integration of computer vision techniques into the control framework of mobile robots, rendering these robots able to perceive, analyze and – to some degree – understand their environment. More specifically, he focuses on three-dimensional reconstruction and cognitive vision approaches, with the aim to port the capabilities of the human eyesight to intelligent robots. |
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Daniel David is a Professor,
Ph.D., at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Head of
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. He has extensive
training in evidence-based assessment and therapies. He is supervisor
in cognitive therapy (Academy of Cognitive Therapy, USA) and in
rational-emotive and cognitive-behavioral therapy (Albert Ellis
Institute, USA), with specific competences in schema-focused therapy,
metacognitive therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. As part
of evidence-based assessment and therapy, he uses robotics/robotherapy
and virtual reality therapy techniques. He is also trainined in genetic
counseling and behavioral medicine. His clinical focus is mainly on
anxiety and mood disorders (for children and adults), but also on other
psychological disorders (e.g., ADHD, eating disorder, sexual disorders,
substance dependence, somotoform disorders, cognitive), by individual,
group, and/or family/couple interventions. He is also trainined to use
cognitive-behavioral therapies for health promotion (i.e., positive
psychology), in non-psychiatric settings (e.g., psychological
preparation for surgery, pain, cancer, irritable bowel syndrom etc.),
and non-clinical contexts: educational (i.e., rational emotiove
education) and organisational (i.e., cognitive-behavioral coaching). |
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Dr. Adrian Stoica is a Senior Research Scientist and Manager of Advanced Robotics Controls Group at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He has over twenty years of R&D experience in designing learning and adaptive autonomous systems. He is a graduate of the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science (Buffalo NY, 1994). His 1995 PhD thesis, "Motion learning by robot apprentices" (VUT Melbourne, Australia) was one of the earliest contributions to humanoid robot learning by imitation. At JPL he has lead research projects for NASA, DARPA, USAF, DTAO, BMDO, etc., developing new technology solutions in areas ranging from evolvable hardware for survivable systems to humanoid robots for planetary surface operations. His current robotics-related interests are mainly in the areas of robot intelligence and human-oriented robotics, exploring topics from brain-machine interfaces and security aspects of human-embedded hardware to cyborgs. He founded four conferences, published over 100 papers, obtained 5 patents, gave keynotes, and contributed as member of various editorial and advisory boards. |
* To be confirmed Peter Ford Dominey, France