Connectionists: [meetings] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- Workshop: Bio-inspired control for interlimb coordination and adaptation in legged robots at SWARM2017

[Poramate Manoonpong]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- Workshop: Bio-inspired control for interlimb coordination and adaptation in legged robots at SWARM2017, Kyoto University, Japan
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Deadline for poster abstract submission: June 23, 2017
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2017
Workshop: October 29 (full-day), 2017

Workshop Overview
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Biological walking systems can adaptively form their interlimb coordination for locomotion to deal with different situations. Neurophysiological studies have revealed that the adaptive coordination emerges from dynamical interactions of neural activities, plasticity, musculoskeletal systems, and the environment. Achieving this on legged robots remains a grand challenge. Thus our workshop "Bio-inspired control for interlimb coordination and adaptation in legged robots" at SWARM 2017 (http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2017/) will bring together leading experts, working in the domains of bio-inspired control of legged robots, to present their recent achievements on robot locomotion with adaptive interlimb coordination for speed-dependent adaptation, environment-dependent adaptation, body-dependent adaptation, and task-dependent adaptation. We will also discuss future directions to overcome this challenge.

The full-day workshop is composed of the following parts:
1)            Invited talks by experts from animal locomotion, bio-inspired locomotion control, and legged robots,
2)            poster presentations,
3)            Discussion and future steps

We are also pleased to invite contributions in the form of 1-2 pages conf. style abstract http://www.ohk.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/SWARM2017/ on (but are not limited to) the following topics. The selected contributions will be presented in a form of a poster during the workshop and the SWARM conference. 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 poma at mmmi.sdu.dk<mailto:poma at mmmi.sdu.dk>  in PDF format. One author per accepted workshop contribution (poster, demo) and attendee are required to register for the workshop and SWARM2017.

We hope that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you in Kyoto, Japan!

The workshop organizers:

Poramate Manoonpong, Shinya Aoi, and Yuichi Ambe

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The Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:


*        Animal locomotion,

*        Bio-inspired locomotion control,

*        Legged robots,

*        Dynamic locomotion,

*        Adaptive behavior

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Tentative List of Speakers of the workshop:


*        Amir Ayali (School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)

*        Emily Baird (Lund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden)

*        Poramate Manoonpong (Embodied AI & Neurorobotics Lab, Centre for BioRobotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

*        Malte Schilling (The Center of Excellence for Cognitive Interaction Technology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)

*        Yuichi Ambe (Department of Applied Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

*        Shinya Aoi (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)

*        Gen Endo (School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)

*        Yasuhiro Fukuoka (Intelligent Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan)

*        Alexander Spröwitz (Dynamic Locomotion Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) Stuttgart, Germany)

*        Auke Ijspeert (Biorobotics Laboratory, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland)

*        Dai Owaki (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)


Best regards

Poramate Manoonpong

Associate Professor

SDU Embodied Systems for Robotics and Learning, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute


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+45 65 50 86 98 <tel:+4565508698>

poma at mmmi.sdu.dk <mailto:poma at mmmi.sdu.dk>


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