In embodied robotics and cognitive modeling, however, these processes have been mostly treated in isolation with systems either evolving higher cognitive processes, or acquiring new motor skills. The motivation of this symposium is that understanding, and simulating, the mechanisms underlying motor development is necessary to implement an ecologically-balanced development of the system.
This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together researchers from neuroscience, developmental psychology, computer science and robotics to examine the latest advances in the area, and delineate new strategies.
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 | Workshop keynote The coordination of eye and head movements during visual tracking in human infants: an example of u-shaped developmental function C. von Hofsten and K. Rosander (Sweden) |
| 10:45 | Active learning of probabilistic forward models in visuo-motor development A. Dearden and Y. Demiris (UK) |
| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | Robot bouncing: The assembly, tuning, and transfer of action systems L. Berthouze (Japan) |
| 12:45 | Experimental comparison of the van der Pol and Rayleigh nonlinear oscillators for a robotic swinging task P. Veskos and Y. Demiris (UK) |
| 13:30 | Lunch break -- SSAISB AGM |
| 14:30 | Adaptive combination of motor primitives F. Nori, G. Metta, L. Jamone, and G. Sandini (Italy) |
| 15:10 | A procedural learning mechanism for novel skill acquisition S. D'Mello, U. Ramamurthy, A. Negatu and S. Franklin (USA) |
| 15:50 | Is a kinematics model a prerequisite to robot imitation? B. Jansen (Belgium) |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 | AISB plenary talk From individual to collective intelligence Nigel Franks (UK) |