IEEE / RAS - EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics 24 giugno 2012

The environment where we live is continuously changing. Behavior adaptation in such unknown environment is now recognized as one of the most significant capabilities of robots for supporting human beings sharing the same environment. Biomimetic approach is one of the most attractive methods to create appropriate behaviors in unknown environment because living organisms have the capability to survive in natural environment creating appropriate behaviors. We are planning a half day workshop to discuss the control architecture for creating robot behaviors adapting their behaviors to the environmental situations in the area from the support of our daily life to specific tasks such as rehabilitation. The key concept of our discussion is body/environment interaction. The environmental inputs should play the role of supervising signal to creating appropriate behaviors of robots otherwise we must use the pre-defined controllers that frequently make unnatural behaviors to unknown environment. We will widely discuss in this workshop from the fundamental computational scheme how environmental inputs are used as the supervising signals, to the application fields of the robot with the adaptability of biological systems, and lead the novel concept of the control scheme for creating the appropriate behaviors in unknown environment. Organizers Shingo Shimoda (Brain science institute TOYOTA collaboration center, RIKEN, Japan, [email protected]) Juan C. Moreno (Bioengineering Group, CSIC, [email protected] ) Program Time Speaker Presentation 14:00 – 14:10 Opening remarks and workshop introduction 14:10 – 14:30 Pavan Vempaty (Oakland University) Adaptive Controller for Biped Robot Mimicking Human Gait 14:30 – 14:50 Jonas Buchli (Italian Institute of Technology) Robust dynamic walkers 14:50 – 15:10 Shingo Shimoda (RIKEN) Tacit learning a biomimetic learning through behavior experiences