CONFERENCE
July 10-12 9:00 – 18:00
The Conference and Poster Session will take place at the Kasugano International Forum in Nara, Japan. www.i-ra-ka.jp/en/
July 10
9:00 REGISTRATION
9:20-9:30 - WELCOME
9:30 - 10:30 -PLENARY TALK MICHAEL MILFORD
Navigation, neuroscience and neural networks: a quest to understand intelligence and build better technology for robots and autonomous vehicles.
Animals inspired systems
10:30 - 10:50 Drosophibot: a fruit fly inspired bio-robot. Clarissa Goldsmith, Nicholas Szczecinski, Roger Quinn
10:50 - 11:10 Design of a canine inspired quadruped robot as a platform for synthetic neural network control. Cody Scharzenberger, Jonas Mendoza, Alexander Hunt
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Crab-like hexapod feet for amphibious walking in sand and waves. Nicole Graf, Alexander Behr, Kathryn Daltorio
Locomotion and kinematics
11:50 - 12:10 Heads or tails? Cranio-caudal mass distribution for robust locomotion with soft biorobotic appendages. Robert Siddall, Jenny Michel, Fabian Schwab, James Weaver, Ardian Jusufi
12:10 - 12:30 Speedy whegs climbs obstacles slowly and runs at 44 km/hour. William Breckwoldt, Richard Bachmann, Ronald Leibach, Roger Quinn
12:30 - 13:00 Poster Spotlight session 1
13:00 -15:00 Lunch break
Collective and distributed robotics
15:00 -15:20 Chemotaxis based virtual fence for swarm robots in unbounded environments. Simon Obute, Mehmet Dogar, Jordan Boyle
15:20 - 15:40 Automatic calibration of artificial neural networks for zebrafish collective behaviours using a quality diversity algorithm. Leo Cazenille, José Halloy, Nicolas Bredeche
15:40 - 16:00 Poster Spotlight session 2
16:00 -17:00 - PLENARY TALK ANDRE VAN SCHAIK
Neuromorphic Engineering: the nervous system for living machines?
18:30 - 20:00 COCKTAIL
July 11
9:00 -10:00 PLENARY TALK HIROSHI ISHIGURO
Studies on interactive robots.
Animal-inspired systems
10:00 - 10:20 MiniBee: a miniature MAV for the biomimetic embodiment of insect brain models. Alex Cope, Ali Ahmed, Fadl Isa, James Marshall
10:20 - 10:40 Measuring the effectiveness of biomimetic robots as therapeutic tools: translating the felt security scale from English to Japanese. Emily Collins, Tony Prescott, Yoichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro
10:40 - 11:00 Manufacturing Artificial Wings Based on the Manduca sexta Hawkmoth. Matthias Weisfeld, Kenneth Moses, David Prigg, Richard Bachmann, Mark Willis, Roger Quinn
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Computational intelligence for bioinspired systems
11:30 - 11:50 Foveated image processing for faster object detection and recognition in embedded systems using deep convolutional neural networks. Uziel Jaramillo Avila, Sean Anderson
11:50 - 12:10 Bio-inspired stochastic growth and initialization for artificial neural networks. Kevin Dai, Amir Barati Farimani, Victoria Webster-Wood
12:10-12:15 Cellink on Bioprinting
12:15 - 12:50 Poster Session
13:00 -15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -15:20 Poster Session
Biomimetics and Biohybrid systems
15:20 - 15:40 Affective visuomotor interaction: a functional model for socially competent robot grasping. Eris Chinellato, Gabriele Ferretti, Lucy Irving
15:40 - 16:00 Characterization of biomimetic peristaltic pumping system based on flexible silicone soft robotic actuators as an alternative for technical pumps. Falk Esser, Friederike Krüger, Tom Masselter, Thomas Speck
16:00 - 16:20 A robust and efficient cooler design inspired by leaf venation. Houpu Yao, Rui Dai, Hamidreza Marvi
16:30 - 17:30 - PLENARY TALK KOH HOSODA
Soft Body as Source of Intelligence
18:30 SOCIAL DINNER
July 12
9:00 -10:00 - PLENARY TALK YUKIE NAGAI
Cognitive development in robots: a unified theory based on predictive coding.
Biomimetic/biohybrid systems
10:00 - 10:20 Robotic simulator of vocal fold paralysis. Maria Elena Giannaccini, Andrew Hinitt, Edward Gough, Andrew Stinchcombe, Keren Yue, Andrew Conn, Jonathan Rossiter
10:20 - 10:40 Adaptive biomimetic actuator systems reacting to various stimuli by and combining two biological snap-trap mechanics. Falk Esser, Frank D. Scherag, Simon Poppinga, Anna Westermeier, Max D. Mylo, Tim Kampowski, Georg Bold, Jürgen Rühe, Thomas Speck
10:40 - 11:00 Rose-inspired micro-device with variable stiffness for remotely controlled release of objects in robotics. Isabella Fiorello, Fabian Meder, Omar Tricinci, Carlo Filippeschi, Barbara Mazzolai
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Artificial muscles and actuators
11:30 - 11:50 Design, optimization, and characterization of bio-hybrid actuators based on 3D-bioprinted skeletal muscle tissue. Rafael Mestre, Tania Patiño, Maria Guix, Xavier Barceló, Samuel Sánchez
11:50 - 12:10 Tuning a robot servomotor to exhibit muscle-like dynamics. Nicholas Szczecinski, Clarissa Goldsmith, Fletcher Young, Roger Quinn
12:10 - 12:30 Highly-integrated muscle-spindles for pneumatic artificial muscles made from conductive fabrics. Arne Hitzmann, Shuhei Ikemoto, Koh Hosoda
12:30-13:30 Poster Session
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch break
Memory, social robotics and biohybrid systems
15:30 - 15:20 Insect behavior as high-sensitive olfactory sensor for robotic odor tracking. Junji Horibe, Noriyasu Ando, Ryohei Kanzaki
15:20 - 15:40 Robots that imagine: can hippocampal replay be utilized for robotic mnemonics? Matthew Whelan, Eleni Vasilaki, Tony Prescott
15:40 - 16:00 Feed-forward selection of cerebellar models for calibration of robot sound source localization. Mark Baxendale, Mokhtar Nibouche, Emanuele Lindo Secco, Tony Pipe, Martin Pearson
16:00 -16:30 AWARDS
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