September 25th - September 28th 2016
Landhotel Am Rothenberg
International Workshop funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the HeKKSaGOn Network
| 17:00 | Arrival and Registration |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome by the organizers and general information |
| Session 1 | Invited Talks: Motion and Adaptive Behavior Generation |
| 09:10 - 09:40 | Oliver Brock: Robotics in the 21st century: Relevant and less relevant insights, and how to tell them apart |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Aude Billard: Teaching robots to be agile |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Ales Ude: Learning and adaptation of manipulation skills |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Jan Peters: Motor Skill Learning |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Katja Mombaur: Optimization as a guiding principle of human and robot movement |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Gentiane Venture: Dynamics in motion |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 2 | Cognition and Semantics |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Yiannis Aloimonos: Cognitive Robotics meets Computer Science: Visual Compilers, Motor Interpreters and Action Language Translators |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Norbert Krüger: What are the priors for Cognition: Kant’s Entwurf in the light of neurophysiological and robotic research |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Rod Grupen: Planning in Proactive Belief Networks |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Florentin Wörgötter: Understanding human and robot action |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Carme Torras: Uncertainty, Usability and Understanding: U-turns of Robotic-AI |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Short Break |
| Session 3 | Robotic Systems I |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Yasuo Kuniyoshi: An Embodied Brain Model of the Human Fetus |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Alin Albu-Schäffer: Compliant Robotics for Everyday Live: Results and Challenges |
| 18:45 | Rustic BBQ-Dinner at Köhlerhütte (directly above the Hotel) |
| Session 3 | Invited Talks: Robotics Systems I (cont.) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Gordon Cheng: Challenges in enable touch to robotic systems |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Kazuhiro Kosuge: A Co-worker Robot PaDY for Automotive Assembly Lines |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 | Invited Talks: Learning and Autonomy |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Gerhard Neumann: Information-theoretic methods for learning versatile, reusable skills |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Yoshito Okada: Robotics for disaster prevention |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Manuela Veloso: Symbiotic Robot Autonomy |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Marc Toussaint: Learning and Reasoning for Manipulation: in cooperation, from demonstration, from exploration |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Rüdiger Dillmann: Modelling Cortical Sensor-Motor Control Functionalities with Spiking Neural Networks |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Dana Kulic: Learning from Human Movement |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Justus Piater: From Machine Learning to Agency |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Coffee Break: |
| Session 5 | Invited Talks: Industrial Perspectives |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Firma KUKA: Rainer Bischoff |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Firma ABB: Björn Matthias |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Short Break |
| Session 6 | Four selected talks from participants |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Christian Schlette: Database technologies for long-term/large-scale mental models in robotics |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Florian Röhrbein: Neurorobotics an the Human Brain Project |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Takayuki Osa: Autonomous Learning of Multiple Grasping Policies with Reinforcement Learning |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Yulia Sandamirskaya: Neuromorphic technology in robotics: towards efficient implementation of cognitive architectures. |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Posters and Wine |
| Session 7 | Invited Talks: Robotic Ethics and Philosophy |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | David Vernon: The three dilemmas of cognitive robotics |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Joanna Bryson: What makes a person |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Mark Coeckelbergh: Artificial agents in health care: Ethical and societal challenges |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Selma Sabanovic: Co-designing enabling robots: Lessons from working with children and older adults |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Tom Ziemke: Intentions, Intentionality, and the Illusion of Agency |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Vanessa Evers: Socially intelligent robots in public places |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Minoru Asada: Towards Constructive Developmental Science: from neural dynamics to social interaction |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:45 | Plenary discussion 1: Perspective from the funding agencies |
| 15:00 - 22:00 | Excursion and Dinner at Schloss Sababurg |
| Session 8 | Invited Talks: Interdisciplinary Robotics Aspects |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Yuki Nagai: Predictive learning: A unified theory for cognitive development |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Auke Ijspeert: Studying locomotion using biorobots and numerical models of the spinal cord |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | K. Harada: Manipulation Technology for Industry |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Verena Hafner: Development of the Self in Artificial Systems |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Shinya Aoi: Stability and maneuverability of a multilegged robot |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Poramate Manoonpong: Embodied neural mechanisms for adaptive, versatile, autonomous behaviors of bio-inspired walking robots |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Giulio Sandini: Humanizing Robots |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 9 | Invited Talks: Robotic Systems II |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Tamim Asfour: On Dualities, Force and Time in Robotics |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Wolfram Burgard: Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Michael Beetz: Cognition-enabled robotics: towards the mastery of everyday activity |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Oussama Khatib: The New Age of Robotics: Ocean One |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Gregory Hager: From Mimicry to Mastery: Creating Machines that Augment Human Skill |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Fumitoshi Matsuno: Swarm Intelligence and Bio-inspired robotics |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Plenary discussion 2 and concluding remarks |
| 19:00 | Farewell Dinner |
| Departure |