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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SECOND CALL
<span style="color:black">FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- </span>Workshop: Embodied sensorimotor interaction: from locomotion to collective behavior at SWARM2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Wednesday, October 28 (full-day), Kyoto University, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Deadline for poster abstract submission: June 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Workshop Overview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Animals show fascinating adaptive and versatile abilities. For example,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">they can move around and at the same time avoid obstacles in order to successfully navigate through their complex cluttered<span style="color:black">
</span>environment for finding their food source. While moving, they can also adapt their locomotion to deal with unknown situations. Furthermore, they can interact with each other to form collective behavior for anti-predator, enhanced foraging, and even increased
locomotion efficiency. These complex achievements emerge from tightly as well as loosely coupled interactions between many ingredients including biomechanics (i.e., morphology, muscles, and materials), sensory feedback, centralized/decentralized mechanisms,
and communication. Developing these key ingredients and implementing them in artificial systems to approach the level of performance of living creatures remains a grand challenge. To address these issues<span style="color:black">, our workshop at SWARM 2015
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white">(</span><a href="http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/">http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/</a><span style="color:#333333;background:white">),
</span><span style="color:black">“</span>Embodied sensorimotor interaction: from locomotion to collective behavior<span style="color:black">” will bring together leading experts, working in the domains of bio</span>-inspired robotics, swarm robotics, modular
robotics, embodied AI, evolutionary robotics, and computational neuroscience, to present their recent developments on robot locomotion and collective behavior and discuss future directions to overcome this challenge.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The full-day workshop is composed of the following parts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Invited talks by experts from swarm robotics, bio-inspired locomotion control, and embodied AI,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">poster presentations,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">Discussion and future steps</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We are also pleased to invite contributions in the form of 1 page conf. style abstract
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/">http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/</a><span style="color:black"> on (but are not limited to) the following topics. The selected
contributions will be presented in a form of a poster during the workshop. We particularly encourage young scientists to contribute and attend, even presenting their research at an early stage an engage in discussions. We also welcome live demonstrations on
robot locomotion and collective behavior. Submissions have to be sent to </span>
<a href="mailto:poma@mmmi.sdu.dk">poma@mmmi.sdu.dk</a><span style="color:red"> </span>
in PDF format. <span style="color:#333333;background:white">One author per accepted workshop contribution (poster, demo) and attendee are required to register (</span><a href="http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/">http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/</a><span style="color:#333333;background:white">).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Bio-inspired robotics (e.g., walking robots, flying robots, etc.),
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Locomotion control,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Collective behavior control,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-
<span style="color:black">Swarm and self-organizing systems</span> (e.g., modular robots)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">=====================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tentative List of Speakers:<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dario Floreano (Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">John Hallam (Centre for BioRobotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU, Denmark)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kasper Støy (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Nora Ayanian (the Automatic Coordination of Teams Lab, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, USA)
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Koh Hosoda (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems, Grad. school of Engineering, Osaka
University, Japan</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yulia Sandamirskaya (Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Shinya Aoi (Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yuichi Ambe (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Poramate Manoonpong (Embodied AI & Neurorobotics Lab, Centre for BioRobotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU, Denmark)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">=====================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We hope that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you in Kyoto, Japan!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The workshop organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Florentin Wörgötter, Poramate Manoonpong,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yuichi Ambe, Shinya Aoi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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