Workshop @ CogSys 2012
CogSys 2012 – 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems
February 21st, 2012, Vienna , Austria
Call for Participation
Scope of the Workshop
The main goal of this Workshop is to present and discuss with the community the main results of the FP7 EC-funded ROBOSKIN project as well as to identify possible emerging directions for research on tactile sensing.
ROBOSKIN (see http://www.roboskin.eu) is a project ending in April 2012 that is focused on technological and scientific aspects related to large-scale tactile sensing and tactile data processing. During the last three years, ROBOSKIN pursued the following goals:
- To design and integrate fundamental cognitive structures for an efficient and safe use of tactile data in terms of a robot body image, safe reflexive reactions to tactile events and flexible representations of spatially and temporally distributed patterns of physical contact.
- To develop cognitive mechanisms that use tactile feedback to improve human-robot interaction capabilities particularly in the application domains of programming by demonstration and robot assisted play scenarios for children with autism.
The Workshop will present the main results of the project featuring a series of keynote talks from the various partners, with a specific emphasis on faced challenges, design choices and selected solutions.
Target Audience
The Workshop is expected to be a forum for researchers working in the areas of tactile sensing, robot grasping and interaction control, haptics, human-robot interaction, software engineering aspects for robotics, cognitive robotics, etc.
Program Committee
Giorgio Cannata - University of Genova, Italy
Piero Cosseddu - University of Cagliari, Italy
Torbjorn Dahl - University of Wales at Newport, UK
Kerstin Dautenhahn - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Lorenzo Natale - Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni - University of Genova, Italy
Giorgio Metta - Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Daniel Polani - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Ben Robins - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Lucia Seminara - University of Genova, Italy
Maurizio Valle - University of Genova, Italy
Organizers
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni - Università di Genova, Italy
