Posters and Spotlights

Posters and Spotlights 1                           Wednesday 30 July     

12:30 Machines learning - towards a new synthetic autobiographical memory Mat Evans, Charles Fox, Tony Prescott
12:35 Adhesive Stress Distribution Measurement on a Gecko. Eric Eason, Elliot Hawkes, Marc Windheim, David Christensen, Thomas Libby, Mark Cutkosky
12:40 Soil Mechanical Impedance Discrimination by a Soft Tactile Sensor for a Bioinspired Robotic Root. Chiara Lucarotti, Massimo Totaro, Lucie Viry, Lucia Beccai, Barbara Mazzolai
12:45 Force Contribution of Single Leg Joints in a Walking Hexapod Chris Dallmann, Josef Schmitz
12:50 Roving Robots Gain from an Orientation Algorithm of Fruit Flies and Predict a Fly Decision-Making Algorithm Roland Strauss, Stefanie Flethe, José A. Villacorta, Valeri A. Makarov, Manuel G. Velarde, Luca Patanè, Paolo Arena

13:00 - 14:00
- 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
- 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
- Design and Control of a Tunable Compliance Actuator Victoria Webster, Ronald Leibach, Alexander Hunt, Richard Bachmann, Roger Quinn
An Experimental Eye-blinking Model for a Humanlike Robot  Abolfazl Zaraki, Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi, Danilo De Rossi
Action Selection within short time windows  Holk Cruse, Malte Schilling
- Design Principles for Cooperative Robots with Uncertainty-Aware and Resource-Wise Adaptive Behavior  Carlos Garcia-Saura, Francisco de Borja Rodriguez, Pablo Varona      
Characterizing the Substrate Contact of Carpal Vibrissae of Rats during Locomotion Thomas Helbig, Danja Voges, Sandra Niederschuh, Manuela Schmidt,Hartmut Witte           
High speed switched, Multi-channel Drive for High voltage Dielectric Actuation of a Biomimetic Sensory Array Martin Pearson, Tareq Assaf       
- Optimising robot personalities for symbiotic interaction Samuel Fernando, Emily C. Collins, Armin Duff, Roger Moore, Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott 
Empathy for humanoid robots  Marina Sardà Gou, Stéphane Lallée, Klaudia Grechuta, Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Paul Verschure         
A Concept of Exoskeleton Mechanism for Skill Enhancement  Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Ishiguro
- Programming Living Machines: the case study of Escherichia coli  Jole Costanza, Luca Zammataro, Giuseppe Nicosia 
A self-organising animat body map  Hiroki Urashima, Stuart Wilson
- The influence of behavioral complexity on robot perception Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Klaudia Grechuta, Stéphane Lallée, Paul Verschure        
Acquisition of synergistic motor responses through cerebellar learning in a robotic postural task  Giovanni Maffei, Marti Sanchez-Fibla, Ivan Herreros, Paul Verschure

Posters and Spotlights 2                           Friday 1 August  

12:30 Individual Differences and Biohybrid Societies    Emily C. Collins, Tony Prescott                
12:35 Effects of Gaze Synchronization in Human-Robot Interaction Stavroula Bampatzia, Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Klaudia Grechuta, Stéphane Lallée, Paul Verschure                
12:40 HECTOR, a bio-inspired and compliant hexapod robot Axel Schneider, Jan Paskarbeit, Malte Schilling, Josef Schmitz                
12:45 A bio-inspired wing driver for the study of insect-scale flight aerodynamics Nick Gravish, Stacey Combes, Robert Wood                
12:50 Development of an Insect Size Micro Jumping Robot Je-Sung Koh, Kyu-jin Cho                                  

13:00 - 14:00
Bipedal walking of an octopus-inspired robot    Marcello Calisti, Francesco Corucci, Andrea Arienti, Cecilia Laschi           
Simulated Neuron Dynamics Produces Adaptive Stepping, Turning and Stable Transitions in a Robotic Leg    Matthew Klein               
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               
Modelling Legged Robot Multi-Body Dynamics Using Hierarchical Virtual Prototype Design Mariapaola D'Imperio, Ferdinando Cannella, Fei Chen, Daniele Catelani, Claudio Semini, Darwin Caldwell   
- Gesture Recognition Using Temporal Population Coding and a Conceptual Space Jan Niklas Schneider, Stéphane Lallée, Paul Verschure                      
A combined CPG-stretch reflex study on a musculoskeletal pneumatic quadruped  Andre Rosendo, Xiangxiao Liu, Shogo Nakatsu, Masahiro Shimizu, Koh Hosoda               
Electro-communicating Dummy Fish Initiate Group Behavior in the Weakly Electric Fish Mormyrus rume  Martin Worm, Tim Landgraf, Hai Nguyen, Gerhard von der Emde               
Swimming locomotion of Xenopus laevis robot    Ryo Sakai, Masahiro Shimizu, Aonuma Hitoshi, Koh Hosoda               
A Novel Bio-inspired Tactile Tumour Detection Concept for Capsule Endoscopy    Benjamin Winstone, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Sanja Dogramadzi, Mark Callaway               
Self-organization of a joint of cardiomyocyte-driven robot   Naoki Inoue, Masahiro Shimizu, Koh Hosoda               
High resolution tactile sensors for curved robotic fingertips   Alin Drimus, Matija Gorsic, Vince Jankovics, Stefan Matefi-Tempfli               
Fetusoid35: A robot research platform for neural development of both fetuses and preterm infants and for developmental care    Hiroki Mori, Daii Akutsu, Minoru Asada               
- Motor learning and body size within an insect brain computational model Paolo Arena, Luca Patanè               
The Si elegans project – The challenges and prospects of emulating Caenorhabditis elegans The Si elegans consortium               
Design of an Articulation Mechanism for an Infant-like Vocal Robot "Lingua"    Nobutsuna Endo, Tomohiro Kojima, Yuki Sasamoto, Hisashi Ishihara, Takato Horii, Minoru Asada