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Robust Artificial Intelligence for Neurorobotics

Robust Artificial Intelligence for Neurorobotics

Bayes Centre (5th floor) and School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (26 – 28 August 2019)

Programme

  • RAI-NR schedule

Day 1 – Aug 26th

  • 08:00 – 08:45: Registration
  • 08:45 – 09:15: Introduction from the workshop organisers
  • 09:15 – 10:15:  Invited talk: Chris Eliasmith: Recent applications of neuromorphic hardware to robotics and AI 
  • 10:15 – 10:45: Contributed talk 1: Error-driven learning for self-calibration in a neuromorphic path integration system
  • 10:45 – 11:15: Coffee break
  • 11:15 – 12:15: Invited talk: Yulia Sandamirskaya: Neuronal attractor dynamics: controlling behavior and  learning using neuromorphic hardware in real world
  • 12 :15- 12:45 : Contributed talk 2: Real time movement classification in versatile CPG control
  • 12:45 – 14:00: Lunch break (not provided)
  • 14:00 – 15:00:Invited talk: Giacomo Indiveri: Neuromorphic electronic circuits and systems  for building autonomous cognitive agents
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Contributed talk 3: Reverse engineering of the insect heading encoding circuit
  • 15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
  • 16:00 – 17:00:Invited talk: Janos Rohaly: GelSight, converting touch to vision
  • 17:00 – 17:30: Contributed talk 4: Deep recurrent neural networks for self-organising robot control
  • 17:30 – 18:00 Panel discussion

Day 2 – Aug 27th

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Invited talk: Mike Davies: Neuromorphic brains for neuro-inspired robots: advancing from promise to production
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Contributed talk 5: A spike-based neuromorphic stereo architecture for active vision
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:00: Invited talk: Ashish Kapoor: Safe control and planning under uncertainty
  • 12:00 – 12:30: Contributed talk 6: Non-monotonic logical reasoning to guide deep learning for explainable visual question answering
  • 12:30 – 13:45: Lunch break (not provided)
  • 13:45 – 14:45: Invited talk: Steve Furber: The SpiNNaker project
  • 14:45 – 15:15: Contributed talk 7: Robustness through simplicity: A minimalist gateway to neurorobotic flight
  • 15:15 – 15:45: Coffee break
  • 15:45 – 16:45: Invited talk: Martin Vechev: Safe and robust deep learning
  • 16:45 – 17:15: Contributed talk 8: Memento hominibus: on the fundamental role of end users in real-world interactions with neuromorphic systems
  • 17:15 – 17:45: Panel discussion
  • 18:00 – 22:00: Dinner, arrive at 18:00 for 18:30 start

Day 3 – Aug 28th

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Invited talk: Wolfgang Maass: Biology  suggests new ways for making networks of spiking neurons useful in  robotics
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Contributed talk 9: Learning to learn motor prediction by networks of spiking neurons
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:00: Invited talk: Johan Kwisthout: Neuromorphic Square, or: Where predictive processing and robotics meet
  • 12:00 – 13:00: Invited talk: Rosalyn J. Moran: Active inference, a  Neurobiological AI?
  • 13:00 – 13:10: Concluding remarks
  • 13:10 – 14:30 pm: Lunch break (not provided)
  • 14:30 – 16:00 pm: [Optional] Robot Lab tour
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