The sensorimotor approach to cognition states that the key to bring semantics to the world of a robot requires making the robot learn the relation between the actions that the robot performs and the change it experiences in its sensed data because of those actions. Those relations are called sensorimotor contingencies (SMC).
The SMC approach breaks completely the classic sense-plan-act pipe that rules most of today's autonomous robots, by mixing sensation with action, aiming to bridge the gap between symbolic data and semantics for robots. The goal is to build robots with a more robust behavior in real environments.
This workshop aims to explore practical formalizations and computational models of the SMCs and their direct application to robot control and autonomy. Theoretical frameworks will also have their space on a relation of 1/3rd of the accepted papers.
How can we build a robot based on SMCs?
How can a robot build (semantic) concepts by itself through SMCs exploration?
How can a robot use built concepts to solve tasks?
How can concepts scale and create more complex (abstract) concepts?
Is embodiment required for the creation of concepts? Up to which level?
How much pregiven knowledge is required in a robot to create concepts?
How can a robot be more robust (work properly in real-life environments) by being based in SMCs?
FORMAT OF PAPERS
Papers should be prepared according to the IROS15 final camera ready format and should be 4 to 6 pages long. Detailed information on the paper format is available at the IROS15 page.
Submitted papers will be eligible for publication on a Special Issue Journal (currently under approval)
Papers must be sent to Ricardo Téllez by email at rtellez@iri.upc.edu
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Paper submission: July 15th, 2015
Acceptance with review comments: July 30th, 2015
Deadline for final paper submission: August 21th, 12am at last, 2015
Workshop: October 2nd, 2015
TALK INFORMATION
Invited talk: 40 min (35 min talk, 5 min question)
Accepted papers talk: 20 min (17 min talk, 3 min question).
Frank Guerin, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Alexander Maye, University of Hamburg, Germany
David Vernon, University of Skövde, Sweden
Giorgio Metta, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Giulio Sandini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Alexander Terekhov, Institute for Intellectual Systems and Robotics, France
Toni Gomilla, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Severin Finchtl, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Luis Montesano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Emre Ugur, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Erhan Oztop, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Wail Mustafa, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Denmark
Jimmy Alison, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Diego Pardo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden
Clement Moulin-Frier, ENSTA, France
Dirk Kraft, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
Time |
Activity |
|---|---|
08:30 – 08:40 |
Introduction |
08:40 – 09:25 |
Frank Guerin, From sensorimotor contigencies to conceptual knowledge |
09:30 – 09:55 |
Ehud Ahissar, Motor-sensory Closed-Loop Perception (CLP) models and robotic implementation |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 – 11:15 |
Alexander Maye, SMCs for autonomous robot control:feats and challenges |
11:15 – 11:45 |
Severin Fichtl, Using Relational Histogram Features and Action Labelled Data to Learn Preconditions for Means-End Actions |
11:50 – 12:35 |
Giorgio Metta, Peripersonal space: multisensory integration in human and humanoids |
12:35 – 13:00 |
Valentin Marcel Building the Representation of an Agent Body from its Sensorimotor Invariants |
13:00 – 14:00 |
Sensorimotor Lunch Break |
14:00 – 14:45 |
Giulio sandini, Sensorimotor contingencies for human-robot interaction |
14:45 – 15:05 |
Martina Zambelli Online Ensemble Learning of Sensorimotor Contingencies |
15:05 – 15:25 |
Yukie Nagai Predictive Learning of Sensorimotor Information as a Key for Cognitive Development |
15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 – 16:40 |
David Vernon, Bridging ideomotor theory and autonomous development through perceptuo-motor memory |
16:40 – 17:00 |
Paper 6 |
17:00 – 17:40 |
Alexander Terekhov, TBA |
17:40 |
End |
Ricardo Téllez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Guillem Alenyà, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Cecilio Angulo, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Kevin O'Regan, National Center for Scientific Research, France