May 13, 2009 - Workshop on Future Trends of Mobiligence: Adaptive Motor Function through Dynamic Interactions among the Body, Brain and Environment

Organizers

Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Associate Professor, Dept. of Bio-medical Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Hajime Asama, Professor, Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Overview

Human and Animals can behave adaptively even for diverse and complex environments in various types of behaviors, such as locomotive behaviors in the form of swimming, flying and walking, manipulation behaviors such as reaching, capturing and grasping, social behaviors to the other subjects, etc. Such an adaptive function is considered to emerge from the interaction of the body, brain, and environment, which is induced by the active mobility of the cognitive subject. We call this mobiligence. Namely, the mobiligence can be defined as intelligence for generating adaptive motor function which is emerged by mobility. This workshop focuses on the adaptation mechanism of locomotion, which is one of the important function of mobility. We are planning to treat various types of locomotion: bipedal/quadrupedal, walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, flying. etc. The objectives of this workshop are to bring together researchers from diverse fields of robotics and biological systems, discuss the capability of adaptation of the locomotion in various situations or environment, figure out new control architecture and measurement methodologies, which is not only from the viewpoint of robotics but also biology or biomimetic engineering.

List of Topics

All aspects of adaptive locomotion are welcome, including, but not limited to the following topics biological ans physiological examinations of animals modeling of biological systems construction and experiments on artificial systems by utilizing robotic technologies creation of a hypothesis on mobiligence and its verification

Speakers (tentative)

Futoshi Mori, Department of Veterinary Neurophysiology, Yamaguchi University, Japan Christophe Maufroy, Department of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan Auke Ijspeert, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Kei Senda, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University, Japan Takashi Takuma, Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Masahiro Shimizu, Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan

Program (tentative)

Time Title, Speakers 9:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Dept. of Bio-medical Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan 9:10 Adaptive and anticipatory locomotor control in bipedal walking monkeys Futoshi Mori, Dept. of Veterinary Neurophysiology, Ymaguchi University, Japan 9:35 Quadrupedal Dynamic Walking Using Phase Modulations based on Leg Loading Christophe Maufroy, Department of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan 10:00 Using robots and mathematical models to explore gait generation and gait transition in salamander Auke Ijspeert, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 10:25 Break 10:45 On Flight Mechanics of Flapping Butterfly Kei Senda, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University, Japan 11:10 Tunable Leg Compliance Mechanism for Dynamic Locomotion utilizing Pneumatic Actuators Takashi Takuma, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan 11:35 Adaptive Amoebic Locomotion Induced From Embodied Coupled Oscillators Masahiro Shimizu, Dept. of Electrical and Communication Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan

Intended audience

Ph.D. students, engineers and researcher who are concerned about learning and adaptive autonomous robots, and brain mechanisms of adaptive motor behaviors in human and animals.

Time and Location

Time: 9:00AM - 12:00 Location: Room 405 Session ID: WW-H5