Programme
Monday 1st September 2008
Registration
Informatics Forum, Room G01/G02 (Atrium): 1200 onwards
Introduction and Welcome
1400-1410: Room G07/G07aGillian Hayes
Invited Talk
1410-1510: Room G07/G07a
Robots for Real World Environments
Roland Siegwart
Coffee break
1510-1540: Room G01/G02 (Atrium)Session 1: Personal and Service Robotics
1540-1700: Room G07/G07a
Monte Carlo Localization for a Guide Mobile Robot in a Crowded
Environment Based on Omnivision
Cristina Gamallo, Carlos V. Regueiro, Pablo Quintia and Manuel
Mucientes
Gaussian Progress Regression for Facial Behaviour Mapping
Peter Jaeckel, Neill Campbell and Chris Melhuish
Robot Learning from Environment Interaction and Observation of Human
Behaviour
Pablo Quintia, Roberto Iglesias, Carlos V. Regueiro, Eva Cernadas
and Miguel Rodriguez
Towards Binocular Active Vision in a Robot Head
Haitham Fattah, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa and J. Paul Siebert
Annual Meeting of Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics
Room 1.15Tuesday 2nd September 2008
Invited Talk
0930-1030: Room G07/G07a
Modular Robots in Action
Kasper Stoy
Coffee break
1030-1100: Room G01/G02 (Atrium)Session 2: Localization and System Analysis
1100-1200: Room G07/G07a
Robot Localization Using Seismic Signals
Theocharis Kyriacou, Peter Styles and Sam Toon
A Proposal of a Methodology for the Analysis of
Robot-environment Interaction Through System Identification
Otar Akanyeti, Inaki Rano, Ulrich Nehmzow and Steve
Billings
Improving 3D Scan Registration for SLAM with Clustering and
Deterministic Annealing
Timo Roehling and Dirk Schulz
Lunch
1200-1330Session 3: Learning I
1330-1410: Room G07/G07a
Application of Unsupervised Clustering to Complex Robot Training Tasks
Ulrich Nehmzow, Otar Akanyeti and Steve Billings
Comparative Experiments on the Emergence of Safe Behaviours
Yuri Gavshin and Maarja Kruusmaa
Poster Session I
1420-1500: Room G07/G07a
Fabric Manipulation: an Eye Tracking Experiment
Peter Gibbons, Phil Culverhouse and Guido Bugmann
Monocular Omnidirectional Vision Based Robot Localisation and Mapping
Chris Burbridge, Libor Spacek, Joan Condell and Ulrich Nehmzow
A Co-evolutionary Approach Toward Face Localization in Color Images
Farshid Hajati and Soheila Gheisari
Internal Agent States: Experiments Using the Swarm Leader Concept
Mohamed H. Mabrouk, Craig W. Murray, Kevin Johnstone and Colin
R. McInnes
A Mathematical Model, Implementation and Study of a Swarm Conglomerate
and Its Formation Control
Blesson Varghese and Gerard T. McKee
Error Surface Generation Techniques for Appearance-based Stabilisation
of an Intelligent Kite Aerial Photography Platform (iKAPP)
Heidar Hosseini, Mark Neal and Frederic Labrosse
Induced Policy Segmentation in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with
Communicative Actions
Matthew B. Whitaker and Gillian Hayes
Simplification of Artificial Neural Networks Using Neural Complexity
Measures
Thomas D. Jorgensen, Barry Haynes and Charlotte Norlund
Coffee break
1500-1530: Room G01/G02 (Atrium)Session 4: Learning II
1530-1610: Room G07/G07a
A Developmental Algorithm for Ocular-motor Coordination
Fei Chao, Mark H. Lee and Joseph J. Lee
Touch Perception with SOM, Growing Cell Structures and Growing
Grids
Magnus Johnsson, David Gil Mendez and Christian Balkenius
Poster Session II
1620-1700: Room G07/G07a
A Software Architecture for Mobile Robot Navigation
Phillip McKerrow, Sherine Antoun and Patricia Worth
Modelling the Lizard Ear: Directness of Phonotaxis with Noise
Distractor
Lei Zhang, John Hallam and Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
Relating Textural Concepts to Tactile Sensors
James Edwards, Jonathan Lawry, Jonathan Rossiter and Chris Melhuish
Microbial-powered Artificial Muscles for Autonomous robots
Ioannis Ieropoulos, Iain Anderson, Todd Gisby, Cheng Hung Wang and
Jonathan Rossiter
Modelling Soil Traction for More Effective Control of Walking
Planetary Rovers
Gregory P. Scott, Chakravarthini M. Saaj and Eddie Moxey
Towards Temporal Inference for Shape Recognition from Whiskers
Charles Fox, Mat Evans and Tony Prescott
Programmable Differential Brakes for Passive Haptics
Yaroslav Tenzer, Manish Patel, Brian L. Davies and Ferdinando
Rodriguez y Baena
A Biologically Inspired Fingertip Design for Compliance
and Strength
Craig Chorley, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, Jonathan Rossiter and Graham
Whiteley
Conference dinner
1900 for 1930 Informatics Forum: Room G01/G02/G03Wednesday 3rd September 2008
Session 5: Mobile Robotics
0930-1050: Room 4.31/4.32
Distributed Control of Multi-robot Systems Using Bifurcating Potential
Fields
Derek Bennet and Colin McInnes
Combining Coordinated Navigation and Reactive Collision Avoidance for GPS-based
Convoying
Frank Hoeller, Timo Roehling and Achim Koenigs
Cooperative Target Tracking of Mobile Robots
Zongyao Wang and Dongbing Gu
Sliding Mode Control for Agents and Humans
Sandor M. Veres and Nicholas K. Lincoln
Coffee break
1050-1115: Mini-Forum 2 (level 4)Session 6: Novel Actuators and Their Uses
1115-1200: Room 4.31/4.32
A New Thin Membrane Rotary Motor for Robotic Applications
Based on the Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
Iain A. Anderson, Emilio P. Calius, Todd Gisby, Thomas McKay, Benjamin
O'Brien and Scott Walbran
Associating SOM Representations of Haptic Submodalities
Magnus Johnsson and Christian Balkenius