[Neuroinfo] Human Brain Project workshop on Neurorobotics @ Biorob2016 - Call for Contributions
Falotico Egidio
e.falotico at sssup.it
Thu Mar 3 16:46:50 CET 2016
Dear colleagues (with advance apologies for any
cross-postings),
We invite submissions for oral or poster presentations at
the Huma Brain Project workshop on Neurorobotics that will
be organized on June 26th, at the sixth IEEE RAS/EMBS
International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and
Biomechatronics BioRob 2016, in Singapore.
http://sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it/workshops/biorob2016
Prospective authors should submit the extended abstract
(one A4 page, in PDF format) by March 30th, 2016 .
Notification of acceptance will be received no later than
April 8th.
For submission please refer to the following link:
http://sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it/workshops/biorob2016/HBPPaperSubmissionForm
ABSTRACT
Neurorobotics is already an established branch of robotics
that in the last years, taking advantage from an increase
in the accessibility of existing neuroscientific data and
knowledge, allowed building robotic systems that can
exhibit robustness, adaptability and several features of
the human intelligence. Reciprocally, significant
developments in robotics and machine learning put robotics
in the service of neuroscience as experimental platforms
or test-beds of brain models.
In the last years, advanced insights and the increasing
availability of cheap processing power has led
Neurorobotics to follow two tracks of research with
different goals and methods:
The first track focuses on neuro-inspired computing
paradigms that mimic nervous system functions based on
Spiking Neural Networks. This does not only foster our
understanding of biological systems but also contributes
to future technical applications in artificial systems. In
the past, limited processing power and the lack of
appropriate models and tools shifted the focus of research
far away from biological neural networks. Recently a
number of projects like the US BRAIN Initiative and the
Human Brain Project have taken up the challenge by
combining efforts from the fields of neuroscience and
computer science to enable the large scale modeling and
simulation of biological neural networks with billions of
spiking neurons.
The second track, extending the theory of classical
artificial neural networks, mostly relies on simpler
neuron models but integrate them in novel network
architectures. These networks are extensively used in
robotics, allowing mimicking the function of some brain
areas in order to reproduce complex behaviors with a
reduced computational cost.
This workshop seeks to present and discuss advances in
neuroscientific models for cognition and new perspectives
in control for robotic applications based on both
biologically-inspired and artificial neural networks. The
final goal is to bring together researchers from both
robotics and neuroscience in order to explore how to
maximize the progress at the multidisciplinary frontier
evaluating the advantages of both tracks of the
Neurorobotics research.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Bio-inspired sensory-motor coordination and adaptive
control
- Active perception
- Neurocontrollers
- Self-organization and sensory-motor mapping
- Predictive behaviour
- Bio-inspired learning robots
- Robot imitation and learning by demonstration
- Memory-based algorithms
- Cognitive behaviours in robots
- Reservoir computing
- Deep learning
- Neuromorphic computing for robotics
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Giorgio Metta (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) -
The use of motor invariants can improve action
discrimination
Tomohiro Shibata (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Functional Robotic Assistance of Human Motor Learning
Ruediger Dillman (Research Center for Information
Technology, Germany) - Modelling Cortical Sensor-Motor
Control Functionalities with a Spiking Neural-Robot
Control Simulator
Sunil L. Kukreja (National University of Singapore,
Singapore) Integration of Neuromorphic Tactile
Perception with Haptic Feedback in a Virtual and Augmented
Reality World for Advanced Robotic Control
Best Regards,
Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi (The BioRobotics
Institite,Scuola Superiore SantAnna , Italy)
Florian Röhrbein, Florian Walter (Technical University of
Munich, Germany)
Organizers
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