Plenary Conference Schedule
Wednesday 25 (Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l’Evolution, MNHN, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 75005 Paris)
Morning
8:00- 9:15 Registration - Welcome coffee
9:15-10:00 Welcome and Introductory address: Philippe Bidaud (Director of ISIR, UPMC)
10:00-10:30 Multimodal predictive control in crickets: Mark Payne, Berthold Hedwig and Barbara Webb
10:30-11:00 Slime mold inspired chemical sounding: R. Andrew Russell
Coffee break
11:30-12:00 An FPGA-based lizard: Modifying frequency response through auditory system scaling: Danish Shaikh, John Hallam and Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
12:0012:30 SCRATCHbot: Active tactile sensing in a whiskered mobile robot: Martin J Pearson, Ben Mitchinson, Jason Welsby, Tony Pipe and Tony J Prescott
Lunch time
Afternoon
14:30-15:00 Reconstructing the acoustic signal of a sound source: what did the bat say?: Francesco Guarato, John Hallam and Dieter Vanderelst
15:00-15:30 Simulating the morphological feasibility of adaptive beamforming in bats: Dieter Vanderelst, Fons De Mey and Herbert Peremans
Coffee break
16:00-16:30 On the influence of sensor morphology on vergence: Harold Martinez, Hidenobu Sumioka, Max Lungarella and Rolf Pfeifer
16:30-17:00 Adapting preshaped grasping movements using vision descriptors: Oliver Kroemer, Renaud Detry, Justus Piater and Jan Peters
17:00-17:30 Distributed online learning of central pattern generators in modular robots: David Johan Christensen, Alexander Sproewitz and Auke Jan Ijspeert
Evening
18:00-21:30 Poster spotlights and cheese-party (UPMC- Tour Zamansky, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris)
Perception and motor control
· Tactile discrimination using template classifiers: Towards a model of feature extraction in mammalian vibrissal systems: Mat Evans, Charles. W Fox, Martin. J Pearson and Tony Prescott
· A supramodal vibrissa tactile and auditory model for texture recognition: Mathieu Bernard, Steve N'Guyen, Patrick Pirim, Agnès Guillot, Jean-Arcady Meyer and Bruno Gas
· Learning to look in different environments: An active-vision model which learns and readapts visual routines: Dimitri Ognibene, Giovanni Pezzulo and Gianluca Baldassarre
· Estimation of relative positions of multiple objects in the weakly electric fish: Miyoung Sim and DaeEun Kim
· From sensory-motor informations to mass recognition: Sébastien Razakarivony, Philippe Gaussier and Fethi Ben Ouezdou
· The approach behaviour of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta toward multi-modal stimuli: A simulation model: Anna Balkenius, Marie Dacke and Christian Balkenius
· The Indiana experiment: Investigating the role of anticipation and attention in a dynamic environment: Birger Johansson and Christian Balkenius
· Attentional mechanisms for lateral line sensing through spectral analysis: Otar Akanyeti, Camilla Fiazza and Paolo Fiorini
· BeeIP: Bee-inspired protocol for routing in mobile ad-hoc networks: Alexandros Giagkos and Myra Wilson
Action selection and behavioural sequences
· Simulating human table tennis with a biomimetic robot setup: Katharina Mülling,Jens Kober, and Jan Peter
· Attentional modulation of mutually dependent behaviors: Ernesto Burattini, Silvia Rossi, Alberto Finzi and Mariacarla Staffa
· An empirical evidence of Braitenberg vehicle 2b behaving as a billiard ball: Inaki Rano
· Insectomorphic robot maneuvering on a movable ball: Yury Golubev and Victor Korianov
· Adaptive locomotive behaviors of a biped robot: Patterns generation and classification: John Nassour, Patrick Hénaff, Fathi Ben Ouezdou and Gordon Cheng
Navigation and internal world models
· A cortical column model for multiscale spatial planning: Louis-Emmanuel Martinet and Angelo Arleo
· The complementary roles of allostatic and contextual control systems in foraging tasks: Encarni Marcos, Martí Sánchez Fibla and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
· Path integration working memory for multi tasks dead reckoning and visual navigation: Cyril Hasson and P. Gaussier
· Minimal model of strategy switching in the plus-maze navigation task: Denis Sheynikhovich, Laurent Dollé, Ricardo Chavarriaga and Angelo Arleo
Thursday 26 (Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l’Evolution, MNHN, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 75005 Paris)
Morning
8:00- 9:00 Welcome coffee
9:00- 9:30 Jean-Arcady Meyer: Leonardo’s automata
9:30-10:30 Keynote Speaker Michael A. Arbib: From mirror writing to mirror neurons
10:30-11:00 Learning new motion primitives in the mirror neuron system: A self-organising computational model: Serge Thill and Tom Ziemke
Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Toward a spiking-neuron model of the oculomotor system: Jan Morén, Tomohiro Shibata and Kenji Doya
12:00-12:30 An integrated neuromimetic model of the saccadic eye movements for the Psikharpax robot: Steve N'Guyen, Patrick Pirim, Jean-Arcady Meyer and Benoît Girard
Lunch time
Afternoon
14:30-15:00 Internal models in the cerebellum: a coupling scheme for online and offline learning in procedural tasks: Jean-Baptiste Passot, Niceto Luque and Angelo Arleo
15:00-15:30 A computational model of integration between reinforcement learning and task monitoring in the prefrontal cortex: Mehdi Khamassi, René Quilodran, Pierre Enel, Emmanuel Procyk and Peter F. Dominey
Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Predicting affordances from gist: Pedro Santana, Cristina Santos, David Chaínho, Luís Correia and José Barata
16:30-17:00 Analyzing interactions between cue-guided and place-based navigation with a computational model of action selection: Influence of sensory cues and training: Laurent Dollé, Denis Sheynikhovich, Benoît Girard, Balázs Ujfalussy, Ricardo Chavarriaga and Agnès Guillot
17:00-17:30 Cooperative stigmergic navigation in a heterogeneous robotic swarm: Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni A. Di Caro and Luca M. Gambardella
Evening
18:00-21:30 Poster spotlights and cheese-party (UPMC- Tour Zamansky, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris)
Learning and adaptation
· eMOSAIC model for humanoid robot control: Norikazu Sugimoto, Jun Morimoto, Sang-Ho Hyon and Mitsuo Kawato
· Noisy-or nodes for conditioning models: Jean-Marc Salotti
· Adaptation of coupled sensorimotor mappings: An investigation towards developmental learning of humanoids: Martin Huelse and Mark Lee
· Learning inverse kinematics for pose-constraint bi-manual movements: Klaus Neumann, Matthias Rolf, Jochen J. Steil and Michael Gienger
· TeXDYNA: Hierarchical reinforcement learning in factored MDPs: Olga Kozlova, Olivier Sigaud and Christophe Meyer
· Learning robot-environment interaction using echo state networks: Mohamed Oubbati, Bahram Kord and Günther Palm
· Why and how can hippocampal transition cells be used in reinforcement learning?: Julien Hirel, Philippe Gaussier and Mathias Quoy
· A novel information measure for predictive learning in a social system setting: Paolo Di Prodi, Bernd Porr and Florentin Wörgötter
Evolution
· Self-organizing robot teams using asynchronous situated co-evolution: Abraham Prieto, Francisco Bellas, Jose Antonio Becerra, Blanca Priego and Richard Duro
· Emergence of an internal model in evolving robots subjected to sensory deprivation: Onofrio Gigliotta, Giovanni Pezzulo and Stefano Nolfi
· Emergent distribution of computational workload in the evolution of an undulatory animat: Ben Jones, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff and Xin Yao
· Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to investigate neurocomputational issues: The case study of basal ganglia: Jean Liénard, Agnès Guillot and Benoît Girard
Collective and social
· Autonomous development of social referencing skills: Sofiane Boucenna, Philippe Gaussier, Laurence Hafemeister and Kim Bard
· A general model of symmetry breaking in collective decision-making: Heiko Hamann, Bernd Meyer, Thomas Schmickl and Karl Crailsheim
· Simulation of how neuromodulation influences cooperative behavior: Andrew Zaldivar, Derrik Asher and Jeffrey Krichmar
Friday 27 (Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l’Evolution, MNHN, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 75005 Paris)
Morning
8:00- 9:00 Welcome coffee
9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker Rodney Brooks: Beyond academia: animats as real entities in our world
10:00-10:30 Information dynamics of evolved agents: Paul Williams and Randall Beer
10:30-11:00 Taming the beast: Guided self-organization of behavior in autonomous robots: Georg Martius and J. Michael Herrmann
Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Do empirical models of robot-environment interaction have a meaning?: Ulrich Nehmzow, Phillip McKerrow and Steve Billings
12:00-12:30 Co-development of linguistic and behavioural skills: compositional semantics and behaviour generalisation: Elio Tuci, Tomassino Ferrauto, Gianluca Massera and Stefano Nolfi
Lunch time
Afternoon
14:30-15:00 A conserved network for control of arthropod exteroceptive optical flow reflexes during locomotion: Daniel Blustein and Joseph Ayers
15:00-15:30 Indirectly encoding neural plasticity as a pattern of local rules: Sebastian Risi and Kenneth Stanley
Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Fractal gene regulatory networks for robust locomotion control of modular robots: Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Serajeddin Katebi and Kasper Stoy
16:30-17:00 The dependence of braking strategies on optical variables in an evolved model of visually-guided braking: Didem Kadihasanoglu, Randall D. Beer and Geoffrey P. Bingham
17:00-17:30 How to pick the right one: Investigating tradeoffs among female mate choice strategies in treefrogs: Matthias Scheutz, Jack Harris and Sunny Boyd
Free evening
Saturday 28 - Twentieth Anniversary Day, Clos-Lucé, Amboise
Morning
7:00 Buses departure (4 place Jussieu)
9:30-10:45 Welcome coffee at Clos Lucé
10:45 -11:45 Keynote Speaker Aaron Sloman: Using virtual machinery to bridge the "explanatory gap"
12:00-15:30 Banquet & Free time
Afternoon
15:30-17:30 Panel discussion with Michael A. Arbib, Rodney Brooks and Aaron Sloman
18:00 Visit
20:30 Expected departure from Amboise
(Poster's © Jean Solé)
