WORKSHOPS
July 17 10:00 – 16:00
The Living Machines Workshops will be held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
see address at http://www.livingmachinesconference.eu/2018/workshops/
CONFERENCE
July 18-20 9:00 – 18:00
The Conference will take place at the Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, at the Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution
The poster session will take place at UPMC Sorbonne Universite's Campus Jussieu
July 18
9:00 REGISTRATION
9:20-9:30 - WELCOME VINCENT BELS Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, FR
9:30 - 10:30 - PLENARY TALK JÉRÔME CASAS
Insect-inspired mechatronics: the pervasive impact
of ecological and evolutionary forces in the development of microsensors development
Advances in tactile sensing
10:30 - 10:50 Active Touch with a Biomimetic 3D-printed Whiskered Robot. Nathan Lepora, Niels Burnus, Yilin Tao, Luke Cramphorn
10:50 - 11:10 Whisker-RatSLAM applied to 6D object identification and spatial localisation. Mohammed Salman, Martin Pearson
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Object localisation with a highly compliant tactile sensory probe via distributed strain sensors. Marco Schultz, Volker Dürr
Biomimetic/biohybrid systems
11:50 - 12:10 Guided Growth of Bacterial Cellulose Biofilms. Katia Zolotovsky, Merav Gazit, Christine Ortiz
12:10 - 12:30 AntBot, a hexapod walking robot mimicking navigation strategies of desert ants Cataglyphis. Julien Dupeyroux, Julien Serres, Stéphane Viollet
12:30 - 12:50 Insect behavioral evidence of spatial memories during environmental reconfiguration. Diogo Pata, Alex Escuredo, Zenon Mathews, Paul Verschure
12:50 - 13:10 Poster Spotlight session 1
13:10 -15:00 Lunch break
Locomotion and kinematics
15:00 -15:20 Direction-specific Footpaths can be Predicted by the Motion of a Single Point on the Body of the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nicholas Szczecinski, Ansgar Büschges, Till Bockemühl
15:20 - 15:40 Implementation of Deep Deterministic Policy Gradients for Controlling Dynamic Bipedal Walking. Chujun Liu, Andrew Lonsberry, Mark Nandor, Roger Quinn.
15:40 - 16:00 Poster Spotlight session 2
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:30 - PLENARY TALK METIN SITTI
Bio-inspired and bio-hybrid miniature mobile robots
18:30 - 20:00 COCKTAIL & Living Machines Book Launch on the Seine River
check the map to get to "Escale d'Austerlitz"
July 19
9:00 -10:00 PLENARY TALK STÉPHANE VIOLLET
From insect perception to robots and vice versa
Biomimetic/biohybrid systems
10:00 - 10:20 Active collision free closed-loop control of a biohybrid fly-robot interface. Jiaqi Huang, Yiran Wei, Holger G Krapp
10:20 - 10:40 Artificial system inspired by climbing mechanism of Galium aparine fabricated via 3D Laser Lithography. Isabella Fiorello, Anand Kumar Mishra, Omar Tricinci, Francesca Tramacere, Carlo Filippeschi, Barbara Mazzolai
10:40 - 11:00 Development and Characterization of a Novel Biomimetic Peristaltic Pumping System with Flexible Silicone-based Soft Robotic Ring Actuators. Falk Esser, Friederike Krüger, Tom Masselter, Thomas Speck
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Animal inspired systems
11:30 - 11:50 Insect-Inspired Elementary Motion Detection Embracing Resistive Memory and Spiking Neural Networks. Thomas Dalgaty, Elisa Vianello, Denys Ly, Giacomo Indiveri, Barbara De Salvo, Etienne Nowak, Jerome Casas
11:50 - 12:10 Toward Computing with Spider Web: Computational Setup Realization. Seyed Mohammad Hadi Sadati, Thomas Williams, Beth Mortimer, Ludovic Renson, Alan Quille, Fritz vollrath, Helmut Hauser
12:10 - 12:50 Poster Session UPMC see LM2018 Venue
13:00 -15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -15:20 Poster Session UPMC
Locomotion and kinematics
15:20 - 15:40 Moment Arm Analysis of the Biarticular Actuators in Compliant Robotic Leg CARL. Atabak Nezhadfard, Steffen Schütz, Patrick Vonwirth, Krzysztof Mianowski, Berns Karsten
15:40 - 16:00 Distributed Sensing for Soft Worm Robot Reduces Slip for Locomotion in Confined Environments. Akhil Kandhari, Matthew Stover, Prithvi Jayachandran, Alexander Rollins, Kathryn Daltorio, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 - PLENARY TALK PASCAL BRIOIST
The mechanical dreams of Leonardo da Vinci: from sketches to machines
20:30 Social Dinner on the river Seine
check the map to get to "Escale d'Austerlitz"
with invite speaker:
Innovation, Outreach, and Communication in Science using Superheroes
BARRY W. FITZGERALD
July 20
9:00 -10:00 - PLENARY TALK SIMON THORPE
Memory mechanisms in man and machine
Biomimetic/biohybrid systems
10:00 - 10:20 An Analysis of a Ring Attractor Model for Cue Integration. Xuelong Sun, Micheal Mangan, Shigang Yue
10:20 - 10:40 How to Blend a Robot within a Group of Zebrafish: Achieving Social Acceptance through Real-time Calibration of a Multi-level Behavioural Model. Leo Cazenille, Yohann Chemtob, Frank Bonnet, Alexey Gribovskiy, Francesco Mondada, Nicolas Bredeche, José Halloy
10:40 - 11:00 Investigation of tip extrusion as an additive manufacturing strategy for growing robots. Dario Lunni, Emanuela Del Dottore, Ali Sadeghi, Matteo Cianchetti, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Barbara Mazzolai
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Locomotion and kinematics
11:30 - 11:50 Neuromechanical Model of Rat Hind Limb Walking with Two Layer CPGs and Muscle Synergies. Kaiyu Deng, Nicholas Szczecinski, Dirk Arnold, Emanuel Andrada, Martin Fischer, Roger Quinn, Alexander Hunt
11:50 - 12:10 Aquatic Swimming of a Multi-functional Pedundulatory Bio-Robotic Locomotor. Dimitris Tsakiris, Theodoros Evdaimon, Manos Papadakis
12:10 - 12:30 Emulating Balance Control Observed in Human Test Subjects with a Neural Network. Wade Hilts, Nicholas Szczecinski, Alexander Hunt, Roger Quinn
12:30 - 12:50 A Neuromechanical Rat Model with a Complete Set of Hind Limb Muscles. Fletcher Young, Alexander Hunt, Roger Quinn
13:00 -15:00 Lunch break
Neuromimetics
15:00 -15:20 Prioritized Sweeping Neural DynaQ with Multiple Predecessors, and Hippocampal Replays. Lise Aubin, Mehdi Khamassi, Benoît Girard
15:20 - 16:20 - PLENARY TALK PAUL VERSCHURE
The control Architecture of Living MachinesThe control Architecture of Living Machines
16:20 - 17:00 Living Machine awards