Accepted papers

TALKS 1-18         POSTERS and SPOTLIGHTS  19-58

Oral Presentations

1. Dynamic Model of a Jet-Propelled Soft Robot Inspired by the Octopus Mantle
Federico RENDA, Frederic BOYER, Cecilia Laschi
2. Enhanced Locomotion of a Spherical Robot Based on the Sea-urchin Characteristics
Jorge Ocampo-Jimenez, Angelica Munoz-Melendez, Gustavo Rodriguez-Gomez
3. Neuromechanical Mantis Model Replicates Animal Postures via Biological Neural Models
Nicholas Szczecinski, Joshua Martin, Ritzmann Roy, Roger Quinn
4. Evolving optimal swimming in different fluids: a study inspired by batoid fishes
Vito Cacucciolo, Francesco Corucci, Matteo Cianchetti, Cecilia Laschi
5. I-CLIPS Brain: A Hybrid Cognitive System for Social Robots
Daniele Mazzei, Lorenzo Cominelli, Nicole Lazzeri, Danilo De Rossi
6. Blending in with the shoal: Robotic fish swarms for investigating strategies of group formation in Guppies
Tim Landgraf, Hai Nguyen, Joseph Schöer, Angelika Szengel, Romain O. Clément, David Bierbach, Jens Krause
7. A Natural Movement Database for Management, Documentation, Visualization, Mining and Modeling of Locomotion Experiments
Leslie M. Theunissen, Michael Hertrich, Cord Wiljes, Eduard Zell, Christian Behler, André F. Krause, Holger H. Bekemeier,
Philipp Cimiano, Mario Botsch, Volker Dürr
8. Monolithic Design and Fabrication of a 2-DOF Bio-Inspired Leg Transmission
Daniel Aukes, Onur Ozcan, Robert Wood
9. Capturing Stochastic Insect Movements with a Liquid State Machine
Alexander Lonsberry, Kathryn Daltorio, Roger Quinn
10. Neuromechanical Simulation of an Inter-leg Controller for Tetrapod Coordination
Alexander Hunt, Manuela Schmidt, Martin Fischer, Roger Quinn
11. Change of network dynamics in a neuro-robotic system
Irene Nava, Jacopo Tessadori, Michela Chiappalone
12. A predictive model for closed-loop collision avoidance in a fly-robotic interface
Jiaqi Huang, Holger G Krapp
13. Optimization of cerebellar reflexes
Santiago Brandi, Ivan Herreros, paul verschure
14. Hippocampal based model reveals the distinct roles of dentate gyrus and CA3 during robotic spatial navigation.
Diogo Santos Pata, Alex Escuredo, Stéphane Lallée, paul verschure
15. Design of a Control Architecture for Habit Learning in Robots
Erwan Renaudo, Benoît Girard, Raja Chatila, Mehdi Khamassi
16. Insect-Inspired Tactile Contour Sampling Using Vibration-Based Robotic Antennae
Thierry Hoinville, Nalin Harischandra, Andre Krause, Volker Dürr
17. A Minimum Attention Control Law for Ball Catching
Cheongjae Jang, Jee-eun Lee, Sohee Lee, Frank Park
18. Trajectory Control Strategy for an Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger
Shouhei Shirafuji, Shuhei Ikemoto, Koh Hosoda

Posters and Poster Spotlights

19. Machines learning - towards a new synthetic autobiographical memory [Poster Spotlight]
Mat Evans, Charles Fox, Tony Prescott
20. Adhesive Stress Distribution Measurement on a Gecko [Poster Spotlight]
Eric Eason, Elliot Hawkes, Marc Windheim, David Christensen, Thomas Libby, Mark Cutkosky
21. Soil Mechanical Impedance Discrimination by a Soft Tactile Sensor for a Bioinspired Robotic Root [Poster Spotlight]
Chiara Lucarotti, Massimo Totaro, Lucie Viry, Lucia Beccai, Barbara Mazzolai
22. Force Contribution of Single Leg Joints in a Walking Hexapod [Poster Spotlight]
Chris Dallmann, Josef Schmitz
23. Roving Robots Gain from an Orientation Algorithm of Fruit Flies and Predict a Fly Decision-Making Algorithm [Poster Spotlight]
Roland Strauss, Stefanie Flethe, José A. Villacorta, Valeri A. Makarov, Manuel G. Velarde, Luca Patanè, Paolo Arena
24. Individual Differences and Biohybrid Societies [Poster Spotlight]
Emily C. Collins, Tony Prescott
25. Effects of Joint Attention in Human-Robot Interaction [Poster Spotlight]
Stavroula Bampatzia, Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Klaudia Grechuta, Stéphane Lallée, paul verschure
26. HECTOR, a bio-inspired and compliant hexapod robot [Poster Spotlight]
Axel Schneider, Jan Paskarbeit, Malte Schilling, Josef Schmitz
27. A bio-inspired wing driver for the study of insect-scale flight aerodynamics [Poster Spotlight]
Nick Gravish, Stacey Combes, Robert Wood
28. Development of an Insect Size Micro Jumping Robot [Poster Spotlight]
Je-Sung Koh, Kyu-jin Cho

29. How cockroaches employ wall-following for exploration    
Kathryn Daltorio, Brian Tietz, Andrea Sterenstein, Jui Chun Chen, Adam Watson, Malavika Kesavan, John Bender, Roy Ritzmann, Roger Quinn    
30. Benchmarking human-like posture and locomotion of humanoid robots: a preliminary scheme    
Diego Torricelli, Rahman S. M. Mizanoor, Jose Gonzalez, Vittorio Lippi, Georg Hettich, Maarten Weckx, Bram Vanderborght, Strahinja Dosen, Massimo sartori, Jie Zhao, Steffen Schütz, Qi Liu, Thomas Mergner, Dirk Lefeber, Dario Farina, Karsten Berns, Jose Luis Pons, Lorenz Asslaender
31. Design and Control of a Tunable Compliance Actuator    
Victoria Webster, Ronald Leibach, Alexander Hunt, Richard Bachmann, Roger Quinn    
32. An Experimental Eye-blinking Model for a Humanlike Robot    
Abolfazl Zaraki, Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi, Danilo De Rossi    
33. Action Selection within short time windows    
Holk Cruse, Malte Schilling    
34. Design Principles for Cooperative Robots with Uncertainty-Aware and Resource-Wise Adaptive Behavior    
Carlos Garcia-Saura, Francisco de Borja Rodriguez, Pablo Varona    
35. Characterizing the Substrate Contact of Carpal Vibrissae of Rats during Locomotion    
Thomas Helbig, Danja Voges, Sandra Niederschuh, Manuela Schmidt, Hartmut Witte    
36. High speed switched, Multi-channel Drive for High voltage Dielectric Actuation of a Biomimetic Sensory Array    
Martin Pearson, Tareq Assaf    
37. Optimising robot personalities for symbiotic interaction    
Samuel Fernando, Emily C. Collins, Armin Duff, Roger Moore, Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott    
38. Empathy for humanoid robots    
Marina Sardà Gou, Stéphane Lallée, Klaudia Grechuta, Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Paul Verschure    
39. A Concept of Exoskeleton Mechanism for Skill Enhancement    
Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Ishiguro    
40. Programming Living Machines: the case study of Escherichia coli    
Jole Costanza, Luca Zammataro, Giuseppe Nicosia    
41. A self-organising animat body map    
Hiroki Urashima, Stuart Wilson    
42. Gesture Recognition Using Temporal Population Coding and a Conceptual Space    
Jan Niklas Schneider, Stéphane Lallée, Paul Verschure    
43. Acquisition of synergistic motor responses through cerebellar learning in a robotic postural task    
Giovanni Maffei, Marti Sanchez-Fibla, Ivan Herreros, Paul Verschure
44. Bipedal walking of an octopus-inspired robot
Marcello Calisti, Francesco Corucci, Andrea Arienti, Cecilia Laschi
45. Simulated Neuron Dynamics Produces Adaptive Stepping, Turning and Stable Transitions in a Robotic Leg    
Matthew Klein    
46. A Phase-Shifting Double-Wheg-Module for Realization of Wheg-driven Robots    
Maximilian Fremerey, Sebastian Köhring, Omar Nassar, Manuel Schöne, Karl Weinmeister, Felix Becker, Goran S. Djordjevic, Hartmut Witte    
47. Modelling Legged Robot Multi-Body Dynamics Using Hierarchical Virtual Prototype Design    
Mariapaola D'Imperio, Ferdinando Cannella, Fei Chen, Daniele Catelani, Claudio Semini, Darwin Caldwell    
48. The influence of behavioral complexity on robot perception    
Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Klaudia Grechuta, Stéphane Lallée, Paul Verschure    
49. A combined CPG-stretch reflex study on a musculoskeletal pneumatic quadruped
Andre Rosendo, Xiangxiao Liu, Shogo Nakatsu, Masahiro Shimizu, Koh Hosoda    
50. Electro-communicating Dummy Fish Initiate Group Behavior in the Weakly Electric Fish Mormyrus rume
Martin Worm, Tim Landgraf, Hai Nguyen, Gerhard von der Emde    
51. Swimming locomotion of Xenopus laevis robot    
Ryo Sakai, Masahiro Shimizu, Aonuma Hitoshi, Koh Hosoda    
52. A Novel Bio-inspired Tactile Tumour Detection Concept for Capsule Endoscopy    
Benjamin Winstone, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Sanja Dogramadzi, Mark Callaway    
53. Self-organization of a joint of cardiomyocyte-driven robot    
Naoki Inoue, Masahiro Shimizu, Koh Hosoda    
54. Motor learning and body size within an insect brain computational model    
Paolo Arena, Luca Patanè
55. The Si elegans project – The challenges and prospects of emulating Caenorhabditis elegans    
The Si elegans consortium
56. High resolution tactile sensors for curved robotic fingertips    
Alin Drimus, Matija Gorsic, Vince Jankovics, Stefan Matefi-Tempfli    
57. Fetusoid35: A robot research platform for neural development of both fetuses and preterm infants and for developmental care
Hiroki Mori, Daii Akutsu, Minoru Asada    
58. Design of an Articulation Mechanism for an Infant-like Vocal Robot "Lingua"
Nobutsuna Endo, Tomohiro Kojima, Yuki Sasamoto, Hisashi Ishihara, Takato Horii, Minoru Asada