Robotics Lab Research Open Day 2019
Sponsered by
Date of event:Â 21st of June 2019.
Location: Postgraduate Centre G.01, Heriot-Watt University.
The Robotics Lab at the School of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences is part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and is focused on interdisciplinary research applied to the state of the art artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics and human-robot interaction. The Robotics Lab Research Open Day 2019 will showcase research projects and PhD level research carried out at the Robotics Lab. Kindly sponsored by SICSA, in particular the Artifical Intelligence and Cyber Physical Systems themes.
Robotics Lab Research Open Day 2019
Sponsered by
Date of event:Â 21st of June 2019.
Location: Postgraduate Centre G.01, Heriot-Watt University.
The Robotics Lab at the School of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences is part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and is focused on interdisciplinary research applied to the state of the art artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics and human-robot interaction. The Robotics Lab Research Open Day 2019 will showcase research projects and PhD level research carried out at the Robotics Lab. Kindly sponsored by SICSA, in particular the Artifical Intelligence and Cyber Physical Systems themes.
This year we will have two external speakers:
Dr Amanda Prorok
University of Cambridge
Amanda Prorok is a University Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where she worked on networked robotic systems. She completed her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland, where she addressed the topic of localization with ultra-wideband sensing for robotic networks. Her dissertation was awarded the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) award for the best thesis at EPFL in the fields of Computer Sciences, Automatics and Telecommunications. Further awards include Best Paper Award at DARS 2018, Finalist for Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper at ICRA 2017, Best Paper at BICT 2015, and MIT Rising Stars 2015.
“When Robots Hit the Road: New
Challenges in Multi-Vehicle Coordination”
Abstract:
The practical realization of automated mobility, transport, and end-to-end logistics is burgeoning. Coordinated multi-vehicle systems are facilitating this new reality through the execution of task allocation, path planning, and formation control. In this talk, I shed some light on new challenges in these areas, and present insights that pertain to their scalability, robustness and privacy.
Dr Mary Ellen Foster
University of Glasgow
Dr Mary Ellen Foster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. Her primary research interests are human-robot interaction, social robotics, and embodied conversational agents. She is the coordinator of the MuMMER project, a European Horizon 2020 project in the area of socially aware human-robot interaction. She obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2007, and has previously worked at the Technical University of Munich and Heriot-Watt University. Her homepage is http://maryellenfoster.uk/Â
“Face-to-face Conversation with Socially
Intelligent Robots”
Abstract:
When humans talk to each other face-to-face, they use their voices, faces, and bodies together in a rich, multimodal, continuous, interactive process. For a robot to participate fully in this sort of natural, face-to-face conversation in the real world, it must also be able not only to understand the social signals of its human partners, but also to produce appropriate signals in response. I will present recent research in this area, and will also discuss the emerging ethical implications of real-world deployment of socially intelligent robots.
Preliminary Programme
08h50 - 09h20
Registration
09h20 - 09h30
Opening
09h30 - 10h30
Keynote 1: Dr Mary Ellen Foster
10h30 - 12h00
PhD Students Talks
12h00 - 13h00
Lunch
13h00 - 14h00
Keynote 2: Dr Amanda Prorok
14h00 - 15h10
PhD Students Talks
15h10 - 15h40
Coffee-break
15h40 - 16h15
Research Projects Presentations
16h15 - 16h50
PhD Students Talks
16h50 - 17h00
Closing Remarks
17h00 - 19h00
Networking and Drinks (TBC)
PhD Students Talks
Francisco Mendosa
Reimplementing and Testing the Situation-Aware Fear Learning (SAFEL) model
Calum Imrie
Turing Patterns in Swarms for Spatial Tasks
Ingo Keller
It's not all about more data! A story how data augmentation can improve interactive robots
Martin Ross
An Adaptive Robot for Sports and Rehabilitation Coaching
Hugo Sardinha
Introducing randomness in flocking: An area coverage example
Jhielson Pimentel
Reducing the Search Space on the Evolution of Robot Controllers
Scott MacLeod
ICT-Robotic Architecture for Cognitive Assessment
Siobhan Duncan
Bringing Stigmergy into the real world
Tatiana Lopez
Intuitive Physics for Robotic Manipulation of Fluids
