18-20 March 2013
This open spring school focusses on Cognitive Robotics, and in particular, on experimental findings and computational mechanisms for the integration of language, perception and action and for endowing robots with high level cognitive skills. This is a joint organisation of the RobotDoc Initial Training Network and the POETICON++ Project which aims at serving the exchange of the latest research results and methodological skills between researchers and students from both european projects/networks, as well as other external participants.
The spring school will be held in the Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Athens.
You can download the booklet of the spring school here.
Monday 18 March
12:00 | arrival |
13:00 | Yiannis Tsoukalas (European Parliament, Greece MEP)
EU Research Policy and Robotics |
14:00 | Reinhard Lafrenz (Technical University Munich, ECHORD Project manager)
ECHORD and ECHORD++ - Innovative approaches to strengthen the links between academia and industry |
15:00 | Jean-Christophe Baillie (Aldebaran Robotics)
Developmental Robotics at Aldebaran A-Lab |
16:00 | coffee break |
| 16:30 | Luciano Fadiga (Italian Institute of Technology and Ferrara University)
Sensorimotor processing of language |
| 17:30 | Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck College London, TrackDev ITN)
Mechanisms of learning and development in infancy |
| 18:30 | Jannik Fritsch (HONDA Research Institute Europe)
Automotive Research at HRI-EU: Perception & Prediction Activities |
Tuesday March 19
9:00 | Katerina Pastra (CSRI and ATHENA Research Centre, POETICON++ Coordinator)
Robots with Syntax, Robots with Memory: Beyond one-shot learning to generalisation |
10:00 | Yiannis Aloimonos (University of Maryland, USA)
Parsing human activity |
11:00 | Poster Session 1 and coffee break |
12:00 | Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College & Oxford University, EuCogIII Coordinator)
What is a cognitive system? |
13:00 | Kevin O’Regan (Descartes University Paris and CRNS France)
Constructing space |
14:00 | lunch |
15:00 | Marco Zorzi (Padua University, Italy)
Deep learning of visual numerosity |
16:00 | Matt Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University, USA)
The "Eyes" Have It: Toward an Active-Vision Model of Early Perceptual Development |
17:00 | Poster Session 2 and coffee break |
19:30 | dinner |
Wednesday March 20 - Tutorials
9:00 | Tutorial 1: Towards a Semantic Memory for Robots Eirini Balta and Panagiotis Dimitrakis (CSRI) |
11:00 | coffee break |
11:30 | Tutorial 2: Timing in Humans and Robots Argiro Vatakis (CSRI) and Michalis Maniadakis (ICS-FORTH) |
13:30 | Spring School ends |
18-20 March 2013
This open spring school focusses on Cognitive Robotics, and in particular, on experimental findings and computational mechanisms for the integration of language, perception and action and for endowing robots with high level cognitive skills. This is a joint organisation of the RobotDoc Initial Training Network and the POETICON++ Project which aims at serving the exchange of the latest research results and methodological skills between researchers and students from both european projects/networks, as well as other external participants.
The spring school will be held in the Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Athens.
You can download the booklet of the spring school here.
Monday 18 March
12:00
arrival
13:00
Yiannis Tsoukalas (European Parliament, Greece MEP)
EU Research Policy and Robotics
14:00
Reinhard Lafrenz (Technical University Munich, ECHORD Project manager)
ECHORD and ECHORD++ - Innovative approaches to strengthen the links between academia and industry
15:00
Jean-Christophe Baillie (Aldebaran Robotics)
Developmental Robotics at Aldebaran A-Lab
16:00
coffee break
Luciano Fadiga (Italian Institute of Technology and Ferrara University)
Sensorimotor processing of language
Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck College London, TrackDev ITN)
Mechanisms of learning and development in infancy
Jannik Fritsch (HONDA Research Institute Europe)
Automotive Research at HRI-EU: Perception & Prediction Activities
Tuesday March 19
9:00
Katerina Pastra (CSRI and ATHENA Research Centre, POETICON++ Coordinator)
Robots with Syntax, Robots with Memory: Beyond one-shot learning to generalisation
10:00
Yiannis Aloimonos (University of Maryland, USA)
Parsing human activity
11:00
Poster Session 1 and coffee break
12:00
Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College & Oxford University, EuCogIII Coordinator)
What is a cognitive system?
13:00
Kevin O’Regan (Descartes University Paris and CRNS France)
Constructing space
14:00
lunch
15:00
Marco Zorzi (Padua University, Italy)
Deep learning of visual numerosity
16:00
Matt Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University, USA)
The "Eyes" Have It: Toward an Active-Vision Model of Early Perceptual Development
17:00
Poster Session 2 and coffee break
19:30
dinner
Wednesday March 20 - Tutorials
9:00
Tutorial 1: Towards a Semantic Memory for Robots
Eirini Balta and Panagiotis Dimitrakis (CSRI)
11:00
coffee break
11:30
Tutorial 2: Timing in Humans and Robots
Argiro Vatakis (CSRI) and Michalis Maniadakis (ICS-FORTH)
13:30
Spring School ends