The Natural History Museum of London
The Living Machines conference will take the form of a three-day single-track oral and poster presentation programme, and will include five plenary lectures from leading international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems.
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Programme at a glance click HERE for a pdf version
TUESDAY 30th July
09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION and WELCOME
09:30 - 10:30 Plenary Lecture 1
Another Angle on Mimetics and Hibridity: Scenes from the History of Cybernetics
Andrew Pickering
10:30 - 11: 00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 1: Embodied robotics
Embodied Simulation Based on Autobiographical Memory
Gregoire Pointeau, Maxime Petit, Peter Ford Dominey
11:30 - 12:00 Talk 2: Embodied robotics
Modulating behaviors using allostatic control
Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Stéphane Lallée, Paul Verschure
12:00 - 12:45 PANEL DISCUSSION
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30 Talk 3: Embodied robotics
Design for a Darwinian Brain
Chrisantha Fernando
14:30 - 15:00 Talk 4: Embodied robotics
Encoding of stimuli in embodied neuronal networks
Jacopo Tessadori, Daniele Venuta, Valentina Pasquale, Sreedhar Kumar, Michela Chiappalone
15:00 - 15:30 Talk 5: Biomimetic perception
Time to change: deciding when to switch action plans during a social interaction
Eris Chinellato, Dimitri Ognibene, Luisa Sartori, Yiannis Demiris
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Talk 6: Biomimetic perception
A SOLID case for active Bayesian perception in robot touch
Nathan Lepora, Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Tony Prescott
16:30 - 17:00 Talk 7: Biomimetic perception
Where wall-following works: a case study of simple heuristics vs optimal entropy exploration
Charles Fox
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary Lecture 2
Living Logic: Self-organization and Replication are not Enough
Terence Deacon
WEDNESDAY 31th July
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 3
Robustness in Animals as Inpiration for the Next Generation Robot
Robert Full
10:00 - 10:30 Talk 8: Neuromorphic systems
Robust Ratiometric Infochemical Communication in a Neuromorphic “Synthetic Moth”
Tim Pearce, Alah Karout, Alberto Capurro, Zoltan Racz, Marina Cole, Julian Gardne
10:30 - 11: 00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 9: Neuromorphic systems
Property Investigation of Chemical Plume Tracing Algorithm in an Insect using Bio-machine Hybrid System
Daisuke Kurabayashi, Yosuke Takahashi, Ryo Minegishi, Elisa Tosello, Enrico Pagello, Ryohei Kanzaki
11:30 - 12:00 Talk 10: Neuromorphic systems
Spatio-temporal spike pattern classification in neuromorphic systems
Sadique Sheik, Michael Pfeiffer, Fabio Stefanini, Giacomo Indiveri
12:00 - 12:45 PANEL DISCUSSION
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30 Talk 11: Neuromorphic systems
Generic Bio-inspired chip model-based on spatio-temporal histogram computation Application to car driving by gaze-like control
Patrick Pirim
14:30 - 15:00 Talk 12: Biomimetic robotics
A biomimetic neuronal network-based controller for guided helicopter flight
Anthony Westphal, Daniel Blustein, Joseph Ayers
15:00 - 15:30 Talk 13: Biomimetic robotics
Sensory Feedback of a Fish Robot with Tunable Elastic Tail Fin
Marc Ziegler, Rolf Pfeifer
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Talk 14: Biomimetic robotics
Bioinspired Adaptive Control for Artificial Muscle
Emma Wilson, Tareq Assaf, Martin Pearson, Jonathan Rossiter, Sean Anderson, John Porrill
16:30 - 17:00 Talk 15: Biomimetic robotics
Stable heteroclinic channels for slip control of a peristaltic crawling robot
Kathryn Daltorio, Andrew Horchler, Kendrick Shaw, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary Lecture 4
Grasping Objects and Surfaces with Bio-Inspired Hands and Feet
Mark Cutkosky
THURSDAY 1th August
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 5
Sting: a Biologically Inspired Soft Tissue Intervention and Neurosurgical Guide
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
10:00 - 10:30 Talk 16: Biohybrid systems
Three-dimensional tubular self-assembling structure for bio-hybrid actuation
Leonardo Ricotti, Lorenzo Vannozzi, Paolo Dario, Arianna Menciassi
10:30 - 11: 00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 17: Biohybrid systems
Miniaturized electrophysiology platform for fly-robot interface to study multisensory integration
Jiaqi Huang, Holger Krapp
11:30 - 12:00 Talk 18: Biohybrid systems
Modification in Command Neural Signals of an Insect's Odor Source Searching Behavior on the Brain-Machine Hybrid System
Ryo Minegishi, Yosuke Takahashi, Atsushi Takashima, Daisuke Kurabayashi, Ryohei Kanzak
12:00 - 13:00 POSTER SPOTLIGHT FOR FULL PAPERS click HERE
Eleven talks of 5 minutes each
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION click HERE and EXHIBITION
19:30 - 22:00 EXHIBITION and RECEPTION