Humanoid Robots, Institute for Computer Science, University of Freiburg

Seminar Humanoid Robots

Humanoid robots have become popular in recent years not only in science fiction, but also in research.
The seminar covers topics relevant for the design and control of such robots. This includes perception of the robot’s environment, the realization of low-level skills, higher-level behavior control, and learning.

Requirements and Information

Organizers: Dr. Sven Behnke and Dr. Maren Bennewitz
You have to prepare a talk of approx. 30 minutes and write a summary. Both can be done in English or German. Including discussion your slot will be 45 minutes.
The seminar will held as a Blockseminar on
Monday, 23.07.2007 9:30-15:00 and
Tuesday, 24.7.2007 9:30-12:45 in
Room 101.01.018.
The summaries should be approx. 10 pages long. Much longer summaries will not be accepted. The summaries must be submitted by August 15th, 2007.
Topics have been assigned in the first meeting.

Schedule

Monday, July 23rd

9:30 - 10:15: Localization [Falco Stenzel]
- Simon Thompson, Satoshi Kagami, and Koichi Nishiwaki
  Localisation for Autonomous Humanoid Navigation.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006.
10:15 - 11:00: Human-like Person Tracking [Jan Meyer]
- Thorsten Spexard, Axel Haasch, Jannik Fritsch, and Gerhard Sagerer
  Human-like Person Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006.
11:15 - 12:00: Emotion Recognition and Cross-modal Mimicry [Matthias Laquai]
- Frank Hegel, Thorsten Spexard, Britta Wede, Gernot Horstmann, and Thurid Vogt
  Playing a Different Imitation Game: Interaction with an Empathic Android Robot.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006.
- Thurid Vogt and Elisabeth Andre
  Comparing Feature Sets for Acted and Spontaneous Speech in View of Automatic Emotion Recongition.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2006.
12:00 - 12:45: Human Motion Capture [Balint Atila Gorog]
- Petram Azad, Ales Ude, Tamim Asfour, Gordon Cheng, and Rüdiger Dillmann
  Image-Based Markerless 3d Humanoid Motion Capture Using Multiple Cues.
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Vision Based Human-Robot Interaction, 2006.
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15: Hand Tracking [Johannes Schwenk]
- Thomas Gumpp, Pedram Azad, Kai Welke, Erhan Oztop, Rüdiger Dillmann, and Gordon Cheng
  Unconstrained Real-time Markerless Hand Tracking for Humanoid Interaction.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006.
14:15 - 15:00: Learning to Reach for Joint Attention [Muhammad Awais]
- Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati
  A fast and efficient model for learning to reach.
  International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2005.
- Marek W. Doniec, Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati
  Active Learning of Joint Attention.
  In Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Genova, 2006.

Tuesday, July 24th

9:30 - 10:15: Imitation of Walking [Henrik Kretzschmar]
- Rawichote Chalodhorn and David B. Grimes and Rajesh P. N. Rao
  Learning to Walk through Imitation.
  Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 2084-2090, 2007.
10:15 - 11:00: Equilibrium Point Control [Matthias Sauer]
- Xue Gu and Dana H. Ballard
  Equilibrium Point Based Control and Motor Synergies For Complex Movements In Humanoids.
  International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, to appear.
- Xue Gu and Dana H. Ballard
  An Equilibrium Point based Model Unifying Movement Control in Humanoids.
  In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, 2006.
11:15 - 12:00: Bayesian Imitation [Damian Spyra]
- Aaron P. Shon, Joshua J. Storz, and, Rajesh P. N. Rao
  Towards a Real-Time Bayesian Imitation System for a Humanoid Robot.
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.
12:00 - 12:45: Whole-Body Interaction [Matthias Binninger]
- Bram Bolder, Mark Dunn, Michael Gienger, Herbert Janssen, Hisashi Sugiura, and Christian Goerick
  Visually Guided Whole Body Interaction.
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.