Training Events
The training material (presentations, handouts) of the Collegium events is available within each webpage of the workshops, as per list below.
Upcoming events
Watch this section for future RobotDoc events.
Phd Transfer Workshop & Mid-Project Review Meeting, Barcelona, 5-7 Sept 2011.
During this workshop all Fellows presented their progress and some preliminary results for discussion and evaluation of their potential to transfer to, and continue carrying out, PhD-level research. The Mid-Term Review involved the Coordinator, the Principal Scientists in charge and the appointed ESRs and ERs. The progress of the project and its main achievements were discussed with the Research Executive Agency and External Advisors. Each fellows presented their reserach progress and training experience whitin the RobotDoc network. The programme of the events is available here.
Presentations
- Coordinator’s Report, Angelo Cangelosi (WP1-3)
- Nicolas Navarro, Hamburg (WP4, ESR3)
- Kiril Kiryazov, Skovde (WP4, ESR7)
- Li Cai (Gauss Lee), Skovde (WP4, ESR8)
- Naveen Kuppuswamy, Zurich (WP5, ESR1)
- Cristiano Alessandro, Zurich (WP5, ESR2)
- Andrea Handl, Uppsala (WP5, ESR5)
- Nick Wilkinsons, IIT (WP5, ESR9)
- Claudia Elsner, Uppsala (WP6, ESR6)
- Joanna Znajdek, Bielefeld (WP6, ESR10)
- Vikram Narayan, Bielefeld (WP6, ESR11)
- Junpei Zhong, Hamburg (WP7, ESR4)
- Marek Rucinski, Plymouth (WP7, ESR12)
- Francesca Stramandinoli, Plymouth (WP7, ESR13)
- Introducing new ERsAnna-Lisa Vollmer
- Wiktor Sieklicki
Presentation Videos
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Interdisciplinary Methods Spring School, Budapest Collegium, 2-4 May 2011
This workshop will train Fellows, and other summer school participants, in the use of methods of the disciplines involved in developmental sciences: computational and behavioural neuroscience, cognitive modelling, developmental psychology, and developmental linguistics. It will also include tutorials on advanced robotics machine learning techniques, as well as dedicated training on ethics issue for experiments with humans and robots. This School will be open to outside doctoral students and researchers. The programme of the meeting is available here.
Presentations
- Videos of presentations featured during the Workshop are available here.
- B. Scassellati, Yale University, USA.
- A. Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK.
- T. Belpaeme, University of Plymouth, UK.Human Robot Interaction with the Nao robot
- A. Baranes, Inria Bourdeaux, FR.Intrinsic motivation and developmental robots
- Claes von Hofsten, Oslo University, NO.
- C. Csibra, CEU, Budapest, HU.
- R. Johansson, Umeå Univ, SW.Manual control and direct matching
- S. Nolfi, ISTC-CNR, Rome, IT.
- Michael A. Arbib, USC, USA.
- K. Fischer, University of Southern Denmark, DA.Cognitive linguistics and developmental robots
- E. Szathmáry, Collegium Budapest, HU.
Past events / Workshop material
Project Proposal Workshop, Bielefeld (Germany), 25-27 October 2010
This training event was focused on the presentations of the Fellows' research proposals and additional training on developmental robotics. Workshop for Fellows and collegium staff only. The programme of the meeting is available here.
Presentations
- Alessandro Cristiano, Zurich University, Switzerland. Biologically inspired control of anthropomimetic robots using the concept of muscle synergies
- Handl Andrea, Uppsala University, Sweden. Reaching and reaching comprehension in infants. Infants’ understanding of social interaction
- Kiryazov Kiril, Skovde University, Sweden.Modeling artificial metabolism and motivational autonomy in humanoid robots
- Kuppuswamy Naveen, Zurich University, Switzerland. Nonlinear Dynamical Systems approach to Optimally Control Biologically Inspired Robots
- Lee Gauss, Skovde University, Sweden.Embodied Reward Learning and Development Developmental relation between infant locomotion and cognition
- Narayan Vikram, Bielefeld University, Germany. Emergence of Top-Down strategies from Bottom-Up AttentionalProcesses
- Navarro-Guerrero Nicolas, Hamburg, Germany.Artificial Affective-and Self-Protective Actions
- Ruciński Marek, Plymouth University, UK. Robotic Models of Mathematical Cognition
- Francesca Stramandinoli, Plymouth University, UK. Towards the Grounding of Abstract Categories in Cognitive Robots
- Wilkinson Nick, IIT, Genoa.Developing motoric-perceptual categories for support relations
- Zhong Junpei, Hamburg, Germany.Multi-robot Action Understanding based on the Neural System
- Prof. Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld).Academic Writing
Interim meeting for introducing new Fellows, Plymouth (UK), 13 September 2010
The aim of this one-day event was to allow all new and old Fellows to meet and discuss ogoing work in Robotdoc. The programme of the meeting is available here.
Cognitive Robotics Research Methods Workshop, Plymouth (UK), 9-11 March 2010
The first training event of the RobotDoC Collegium was held in Plymouth, on March 9-11 2010. This training session provided Fellows with a series of lectures and tutorials on research methods used in cognitive developmental robotics. The workshop syllabus included courses on specific robotics research methods, as well as general research methods such as ethics in experimental research, literature review, experimental design and English for academic writing. The workshop also focussed on the initial training on the robotics platform iCub, and machine learning techniques. This meeting also provided an opportunity for all RobotDoc Fellows to meet the Supervisory Body members and all the Collegium staff, as well the new RobotDoc associate Fellows. The programme of the workshop is available here.
Thanks to the support of the EUCogII (eucognition.org) network, six Travel Bursaries were offered to PhD students external to the RobotDoc Collegium. For this we acknowledge the support of the EUCogII action network.
List of talks, with training material available for download:
- Introduction to the RobotDoc ITN (Angelo Cangelosi)
- Introduction to Zurich BODY NODE and embodied intelligence (Rolf Pfeifer)
- Introduction to Uppsala GROW NODE (Gustaf Gredebäck)
- Introduction to Hamburg BRAIN NODE (Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter)
- Introduction to Skovde FEEL&WANT NODE (Robert Lowe, Tom Ziemke)
- Introduction to IIT Genoa SEE&ACT NODE and to iCub robot (Giorgio Metta)
- Introduction to Plymouth THINK&TALK NODE (Angelo Cangelosi)
- Tutorial on affective mechanisms in robots (Robert Lowe, Tom Ziemke)
- Tutorial on developmental psychology (Gustaf Gredebäck)
- Tutorial on neural computation (Cornelius Weber)
- Tutorial on neural dynamical systems (Jun Tani)
- Tutorial on general robotics (Giorgio Metta)
- Tutorial on ethics for robotics research (Martin Beck)
- Introduction to research methods (Angelo Cangelosi)
- files for spss anova excercises (Angelo Cangelosi)
- Knowledge transfer: IP and commercialisation (Susan Boulton)
- Introduction to BARA and robotics market analysis (Paul Robinson)
- Fellows-in-Charge: Final planning meeting (Angelo Cangelosi)
Kick-off Meeting of the RobotDoc Collegium, Zurich (SW), 29 September 2009
The programme of the meeting is available here.
Presentations:
- University of Plymouth, UK (Angelo Cangelosi)
- Zurich University, Switzerland (Rolf Pfeifer)
- Italian Institute of Technology, Italy (Giorgio Metta, Francesco Nori)
- Skovde University, Sweden (Tom Ziemke)
- Bielefeld Univesity, Germany (Britta Wrede)
- Hamburg University, Germany (Stefan Wermter)
- Uppsala University, Sweden (Gustaf Gredebäck, Claes von Hofsten)
- Telerobot Ocem Srl, Italy (Francesco Becchi)
