Advance Program

Plenary Talks

September 21 (Wed), 9:00 - 10:00 Grandea Hall

Swarm-bot: A Novel Type of Self-Assembling Robot
Marco Dorigo
IRIDIA, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, Belgium

September 22 (Thu), 9:00 - 10:00 Grandea Hall

Self-reconfigurable Robot with ATRON Modules
Henrik H. Lund, Richard Beck, Lars Dalgaard
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Technical Session

TU-A: September 20 (Tue), 15:20 - 17:00 Room A
Autonomous Agent & Robot

1. Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots
C.L. Nehaniv, N.A. Mirza, K. Dautenhahn, R. te Boekhorst
2. Universal FPGA-Microcontroller Module for Autonomous Minirobots
T. Chinapirom, U. Witkowski, U. Rückert
3. Seeing Empty Space in an Unknown Environment without Silhouettes
A. Eppendahl, A. Ojamaa
4. SubSim: An autonomous underwater vehicle simulation package
A. Boeing, T Bräunl
5. Toward Micro Wall-Climbing Robots Using Biomimetic Fibrillar Adhesives
M. Greuter, G. Shah, G. Caprari, F. Tâche, R. Siegwart, M. Sitti

TU-B: September 20 (Tue), 15:20 - 17:00 Room B
Teleoperation in Robot

1. Teleworkbench: A Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments
A. Tanoto, U. Witkowski, U. Rückert
2. Teleoperation of a Mobile Autonomous Robot using Web Services
J.L. Du, U. Witkowski, U. Rückert
3. Bluetooth for Autonomus Mini-Robots and Scatternet Formation
O. Orhan, M. Grünewald, U. Witkowski
4. Teleoperation of A Mobile Robot under Office Automation Floors with Visual Assistance
N. Kubota, S. Kamijima, K. Taniguchi

WE1-A: September 21 (Wed), 10:20 - 12:00 Room A
OS1: RoboCup Soccer Simulation
Organizer: Tomoharu Nakashima

1. Developing a Goal Keeper for Simulated RoboCup Soccer and its Performance Evaluation
S. Yokoyama, N. Namikawa, T. Nakashima, M. Udo, H. Ishibuchi
2. An Action Rule Discovery Technique from Simulated RoboCup Soccer Logs
M. Nii, M. Kajihara, Y. Takahashi, T. Nakashima
3. Adapting Recognition of Shootable Situations by Learning from Experience and Observation in a RoboCup Simulated Soccer Game
T. Kawarabayashi, T. Kubo, I. Takahashi, J. Kuroiwa, T. Odaka, H. Ogura
4. Getting closer: How Simulation and Humanoid League can benefit from each other
J. Boedecker, N.M. Mayer, M. Ogino, R. da S. Guerra, M. Kikuchi, M. Asada
5. Evaluation for Selecting Method Using Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Coded Rules in RoboCup Soccer Agents
H. Sasaoka, K. Araki

WE1-B: September 21 (Wed), 10:20 - 12:00 Room B
OS3: Visual Information Processing in the Brain
Organizer: Masayuki Kikuchi

1. Relation between Contour Integration and Figure-Ground Separation
M. Kikuchi, S. Oguni
2. How the early visual system extract angles and junctions embedded within contour stimuli?
M. Ito
3. Neural Correlate of Depth Cue Integration Studied with MEG
T. Owaki, T. Takeda
4. Coding of 3D curvature in the parietal cortex (area CIP) of macaque monkey
N. Katsuyama, T. Naganuma, H. Sakata, M. Taira
5. A Study of Orientation Selectivity of TAM Network Incorporated Receptive Field Structure
I. Hayashi, J. R. Williamson

WE2-A: September 21 (Wed), 14:00 - 15:40 Room A
OS5: RoboCup Real Robot
Organizer: Yasutake Takahashi

1. Yumekobo: An Effective Educational System for RoboCup
K. Demura, Y. Asano
2. A Method of Sensing own States for Tele-operating Aibos at Ruined Homes
K. Kawamura, T. Takahashi
3. Trajectory Generation for a Mobile Robot by Reinforcement Learning
M. Shimizu, M. Fujita, H. Miyamoto
4. Multi-Layered Fuzzy Behavior Control Method for Autonomous Soccer Robot with MOVIS
Y. Maeda, S. Hanaka, W. Shimizuhira

WE2-B: September 21 (Wed), 14:00 - 15:40 Room B
Vision-based Adaptive Behavior

1. Evolutionary Recognition of Corridor and Branch using Adaptive Model with Layered Structure
H. Liu, J.C. Yuan, F.Gao, Y. Mae, M. Minami
2. A Direct Localization Method Using only the Bearings Extracted from Two Panoramic Views Along a Linear Trajectory
H. Huang, F. Maire, N. Keeratipranon
3. Early Results in Vision-based Map Building
T. Taylor, S. Geva, W. W. Boles
4. Prediction of Fish Motion by Neural Network
Y. Li, Y. Takezawa, H. Suzuki, M. Minami, Y. Mae
5. Visual Homing with Learned Goal Distance Information
M. D. Szenher

WE3-A: September 21 (Wed), 16:00 - 17:20 Room A
OS4: Robot Soccer - Challenges and Future Developments
Organizer: Ulf Witkowski

1. FPGA-based Object Detection in Robot Soccer Application
T. Kaulmann, M. Strünkmann, U. Witkowski
2. Robot Soccer KheperaSot League: Challenges and Future Directions
N. Keeratipranon, F. Maire, J. Sitte
3. What Robot Soccer can Contribute to Education and Research - Some Lessons Learned
N. Jesse
4. Coevolutionary Algorithm for Behavior Acquisition of Soccer Robots
N. Kubota, T. Umeda

WE3-B: September 21 (Wed), 16:00 - 17:20 Room B
Robots for Education

1. A Low Cost Controller Board for Teaching Robotics
R. Singh, F. Maire, J. Sitte, A. Tickle
2. Robotics and Robotics Education with Smalltalk
J. Sitte
3. Education for Creativity by Making Small Line Trace Robot in Department of HAIS, University of Fukui
T. Naniwa
4. Education Using Small Humanoid Robot
F. Yamasaki, Y. Nakagawa

TH1-A: September 22 (Thu), 10:20 - 11:40 Room A
Evolutionary Robots

1. Self-Organization of Spiking Neural Network Generating Autonomous Behavior in a Miniature Mobile Robot
F. Alnajjar, K. Murase
2. Behavioral Selection Using the Utility Function Method: A Case Study Involving a Simple Guard Robot
M. Wahde, J. Pettersson, H. Sandholt, K. Wolff
3. Spiking Neural Network for Behavior Learning of A Mobile Robot
N. Kubota, H. Sasaki
4. Safety of Autonomous Evolutionary Robots : Elimination of Certain Behavioral patterns by Complex Systems Analysis
K. Ashihara, K. Murase

TH1-B: September 22 (Thu), 10:20 - 11:40 Room B
OS2: Human-Agent Interaction and Social Robots
Organizer: Daisuke Katagami

1. Long-term Interaction between Seal Robots and Elderly People - Robot Assisted Activity at a Health Service Facility for the Aged -
K. Wada, T. Shibata, K. Sakamoto, K. Tanie
2. State Space Self Organization based on Human-Robot Interaction
M. Sekino, D. Katagami, K. Nitta
3. Strategies using Facial Expressions and Gaze Behaviors for Animated Agents
M. Yuasa
4. Emotion Behavior Learning System Based on Meta-Parameter Control of Q-Learning with plural Q-values
S. Akiguchi, Y. Maeda

TH2-A: September 22 (Thu), 12:50 - 14:10 Room A
Swarm Intelligence 1

1. Two Steps towards a Mechanically Autonomous Self-replicating System
A. Eppendahl, S. Sajnani
2. Using mini robots for prototyping intersection management of vehicles
M. Grünewald, C. Rust, U. Witkowski
3. Embodied Cognition in Directed Multi-Agent Systems - Empirical Study on Subjective Distance -
K. Sekiyama, T. Yamamoto
4. Crack Detection by Mobile Robot with ECT Sensor
F. Kobayashi, F. Kojima, H. Nakatsuka

TH2-B: September 22 (Thu), 12:50 - 14:10 Room B
System Human in the Loop

1. Development of a Companion Robot "SELF"
Y. Mori, M. Ueno, N. Kubota
2. An Evaluation of the Methods to Convert Non-segmented "kana" Strings to "kanji-kana" Strings Using Markov Chain Models
T. Araki, M. Kurano, Y. Furukawa, K. Yamada, Y. Ogoshi
3. An Evaluation of the Method to Detect Erroneous Sentences of "kana-to-kanji" conversion
T. Araki, T. Nozawa, M. Minobe, Y. Ogoshi
4. Cyclic Gestures Recognition for Interactive Learning of A Partner Robot
N. Kubota, M. Abe

TH3-A: September 22 (Thu), 14:30 - 15:30 Room A
Swarm Intelligence 2

1. Self-organized Path Formation by Ant Robots - An Approach to Understanding Ant's Acts by Autonomous Distributed Systems -
N. Shuto, T. Hirata
2. Traffic-like Movement on a Trail of Interacting Robots with Virtual Pheromone
T. Kazama, K. Sugawara, T. Watanabe
3. Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot
R. Groß, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo

Special Events

September 20 (Tue), 18:30 - 20:00
Buffest-style Dinner

September 21 (Wed), 13:00 - 14:00 (Grandea Hall)
Robot Demonstration

September 21 (Wed), 18:30 - 20:30
Banquet

(Last modified: Aug. 29, 2005)