The main conference will take the form of a three-day single-track oral and poster presentation programme, 29th to 31st July 2015, hosted at La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain.
The conference programme includes 5 plenary lectures from leading international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems, and the demonstrations of state-of-the-art living machine technologies.
There will also be regular Talks of 30 min, Poster Spotlights of 5 min, and Poster Sessions of 1h featuring the posters. Robot and media demos are also part of the programme.
The full conference will be preceded by 1-2 days Satellite Events to be hosted at the University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
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WEDNESDAY 29 July
8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION
8:30 WELCOME
9:00 -10:00 PLENARY LECTURE 1 Animals as models for robot mobility and autonomy: Crawling, walking, running, climbing, and flying. Roger Quinn
10:00 Talk 1 - Locomotion
A model of larval biomechanics reveals exploitable passive properties for efficient locomotion
Dylan Ross, Konstantinos Lagogiannis, Barbara Webb
10:30 Talk 2 - Locomotion
Dynamic Walking with a Soft Limb Robot.
Yasmin Ansari, Ali Leylavi Shoushtari, Vito Cacucciolo, Matteo Cianchetti, Cecilia Laschi
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 Talk 3 Locomotion
Worm-like Robotic Locomotion with a Compliant Modular Mesh.
Andrew Horchler , Akhil Kandhari, Kathryn Daltorio, Kenneth Moses, Kayla Andersen, Hillary Bunnelle, Joseph Kershaw, William Tavel, Richard Bachmann, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn
12:00 Talk 4 Locomotion
WormTIP: An Invertebrate inspired active Tactile Imaging Pneumostat.
Andrew Hinitt, Jonathan Rossiter, Andrew Conn
12:30 POSTER SPOTLIGHTS 1
13:00 POSTER SESSION 1
13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Talk 5 Locomotion:
An Energetically-Autonomous Robotic Tadpole with Single Membrane Stomach and Tail.
Hemma Philamore, Jonathan Rossiter, Ioannis Ieropoulos.
15:30 Talk 6 Locomotion
Copying nature - a design of hyper-redundant robot joint/support based on hydrostatic skeleton afolayan
Matthew Olatunde
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 PLENARY LECTURE 2 From plants and animals to robots: movement, sensing and control. Barbara Mazzolai
17:30-18:30 PANEL DISCUSSION 1
18:30 RECEPTION
THURSDAY July 30
9:00-10:00 PLENARY LECTURE 3 Neuromorphic Event-based time oriented vision: A framework to unify computational and biological vision. Ryad Benosman
10:00 Talk 7 Sensing and control:
Wings of a Feather Stick Together: morphing wings with barbule-inspired latching.
Aimy Wissa, Kyungwon Amy Han, Mark Cutkosky
10:30 Talk 8 Sensing and control:
Obstacle-avoidance navigation by an autonomous vehicle inspired by a bat biosonar strategy.
Yasufumi Yamada, Kentaro Ito, Arie Oka, Shinichi Tateiwa, Tetsuo Ohta, Ryo Kobayashi, Shizuko Hiryu, Yoshiaki Watanabe
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 Talk 9 Sensing and control:
Development of Piezoelectric Artificial Cochlea Inspired by Human Hearing Organ.
Youngdo Jung, Jun-Hyuk Kwak, Hanmi Kang, Wandoo Kim, Shin Hur
12:00 Talk 10 Sensing and control:
Visual odometry and low-speed optic flow measurement by means of a vibrating artificial compound eye.
Fabien Colonnier, Augustin Manecy, Raphael Juston, Stéphane Viollet
12:30 INVITED TALK InfoMatter. Nimish Biloria
13:00 DEMOS & Interactive Media Session
13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Talk 11 Sensing and control:
Closed-loop control in an autonomous bio-hybrid robot system based on binocular neuronal input.
Jiaqi Huang, Holger G Krapp
15:30 Talk 12 Sensing and control:
MantisBot: A Platform for Investigating Mantis Behavior via Real-Time Neural Control.
Nicholas Szczecinski, David Chrzanowski, David Cofer, David Moore, Andrea Terrasi, Joshua Martin, Ritzmann Roy, Roger Quinn
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 PLENARY LECTURE 4 Exploration Robotics. Robert Richardson
17:30 PANEL DISCUSSION 2
20:00 LM2014 SOCIAL DINNER
FRIDAY, July 31
9:00-10:00 PLENARY LECTURE 5 Collective intelligence in natural and artificial systems. Jose' Halloy
10:00 Talk 13 Cognition:
Saying it with light: A pilot study of affective communication using the MIRO robot.
Emily C. Collins, Tony Prescott, Ben Mitchinson
10:30 Talk 14 Cognition:
Integrating feedback and predictive control in a bio-inspired model of visual pursuit implemented on a humanoid robot.
Lorenzo Vannucci, Egidio Falotico, Nicola Di Lecce, Paolo Dario, Cecilia Laschi
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 Talk 15 Cognition:
Knowledge transfer in deep block-modular neural networks.
Alexander Terekhov, Guglielmo Montone, J. Kevin O’Regan
12:00 Talk 16 Cognition:
A top-down approach for a synthetic autobiographical memory system.
Andreas Damianou, Carl Henrik Ek, Luke Boorman, Neil Lawrence, Tony Prescott
12:30 POSTER SPOTLIGHTS 2
13:00 POSTER SESSION 2
13:30- 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Talk 17 Cognition:
Crowdseeding: a novel approach for designing bioinspired machines.
Mark Wagy, Josh Bongard
15:30 Talk 18 Cognition:
Effects of the robot’s role on Human-Robot Interaction in an educational scenario.
Maria Blancas, Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Klaudia Grechuta, Paul Verschure
16:00-16-30 Coffee Break
16:30 POSTER SPOTLIGHTS 3
17:45 POSTER SESSION 3
17:45 LM2015 AWARD for BEST PAPER, POSTER & DEMO
6:00 END