Conference Schedule

Keynote Speakers at TAROS-05
Prof. Dario Floreano (EPFL) (abstract)
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schilling (University of Würzburg) (abstract)

Invited presentation by Mike Rose (British Antarctic Survey) (abstract)

Notes for speakers and poster presenters

Conference Programme

All accepted papers (alphabetical order) can be downloaded here. (pdf).

Monday 12th September

12:30-13:45	Registration and coffee	Room 406
13:45-14:00	Opening of TAROS 2005 Chair: Chris Melhuish	Room 408
	Session 1: Applications, chair: Eddie Moxey
14:00-14:25	Stanislao Lauria Human-Robot interactions: an investigation on the use of robots’ perceptive abilities to improve its speech recognition performance	Room 408
14:25-14:50	Martin J. Pearson, Ian Gilhespy, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe and Tony J. Prescott A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles	Room 408
14:50-15:15	Ioannis Ieropoulos, Chris Melhuish, John Greenman and Ian Horsfield Artificial symbiosis: Towards a robot-microbe partnership	Room 408
15:15-15:45	Afternoon Tea	Room 406
	Session 2: Collective Robotics, chair: Christfried Webers
15:45 - 16:10	Felix Schill, Uwe R. Zimmer and Jochen Trumpf Towards Optimal TDMA Scheduling for Robotic Swarm Communication	Room 408
16:10-16:35	Mark Ayre, Dario Izzo and Lorenzo Pettazzi Self Assembly in Space Using Behaviour Based Intelligent Components	Room 408
16:35-17:05	Tony Hirst, Paul Granjon, Alex Zivanovic Ad hoc Session: Robotics in Art and Education, Creative Robotics Research Network	Room 408
17:05-17:35	Poster Spotlights 1, chair: Alan Winfield	Room 408
19:30-	Informal reception	EE Cafe Bar & Foyer

Tuesday 13th September

	Session 3: Keynote Address, chair: Mark Witkowski
09:00-10:30	Dario Floreano Evolution of Cooperation and Communication in Robot Colonies	Room 408
10:30-11:00	Morning Coffee	Room 406
	Session 4: The Biro-Net Session, chair: Klaus Schilling
11:00-11:25	Theodoros Damouolas, Ignasi Cos-Aguilera and Gillian M. Hayes Valency as a Mechanism for Agent Adaptation	Room 408
11:25-11:50	Matthew Johnson and Yiannis Demiris Perspective Taking Through Simulation	Room 408
11:50-12:15	Mark H. Lee and Qinggang Meng Psychologically Inspired Sensory-Motor Development in Early Robot Learning	Room 408
12:15-12:40	Yang Gao, Alex Ellery, Mustafa Jaddou, Julian Vincent and Steven Eckersley *A Biologically-Inspired Penetration/Drilling/Sampling System for in situ* Astrobiological Studies**	Room 408
12:40-14:00	Lunch	Senior Common Room
	Session 5: Modelling and Simulation, chair: Dario Floreano
14:00-14:25	Pejman Iravani and Jeffrey Johnson The Emergence of a Visual Communication Language in Robotic Football	Room 408
14:25-14:50	Shahab Kalantar and Uwe R. Zimmer Contour Shaped Robotic Formations for Isocline Adaptation	Room 408
14:50-15:15	Rachel Gartshore and Phil Palmer Exploration of an Unknown 2D Environment using a View Improvement Strategy	Room 408
	Invited Presentation
15:15-15:30	Mike Rose Challenges and opportunities for robotics and autonomous systems in Antarctica	Room 408
15:30-16:00	Poster Spotlights 2, chair: Riccardo Cassinis	Room 408
16:00-16:25	Afternoon Tea	Room 406
16:25-17:30	Session 6: Poster Session	Room 406
17:30-18:30	Visit to Imperial College Robotics Research Laboratories	Various
19:30-	Drinks reception and Conference dinner	Ognisko, Polish Club

Wednesday 14th September

	Session 7: Keynote Address, chair: Ulrich Nehmzow
09:00-10:30	Klaus Schilling The Huygens Descent Control to Land on the Saturnian Moon Titan	Room 408
10:30-11:00	Morning Coffee	Room 406
	Session 8: Methods
11:00-11:25	Alan F. T. Winfield, Jin Sa, Mari-Carmen Fernández-Gago, Clare Dixon and Michael Fisher Using Temporal Logic to Specify Emergent Behaviours in Swarm Robotic Systems	Room 408
11:25-11:50	Richard E. Gunstone and Mark H. Lee A Lens-Calibrated Active Marker Metrology System	Room 408
11:50-12:15	Theocharis Kyriacou, Ulrich Nehmzow, Roberto Iglesias and Steve Billings Cross-Platform Programming Through System Identification	Room 408
12:15-12:40	Hugo Vieira Neto and Ulrich Nehmzow Incremental PCA: An Alternative Approach for Novelty Detection	Room 408
12:40-13:15	Closing panel, chair Chris Melhuish	Room 408
13:15	Close of Conference, lunch	408, then Senior Common Room

Poster Spotlights 1 - 12/08/05, 17:00-17:30

1	R. Barzamini and A. Afshar Dynamic Adaptive Tracking Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot	Room 408
2	Graeme Bell and Mike Livesey The Existence of Local Minima in Local-Minimum-Free Potential Surfaces	Room 408
3	Michele Bongiovanni An experimental framework for rapid prototyping of mobile robot controllers	Room 408
4	Riccardo Cassinis, Fabio Tampalini and Roberto Fedrigotti Active markers for outdoor and indoor robot localization	Room 408
5	Frédéric Davesne A proposal for a tool that helps handling variability and remains compliant with falsifiability	Room 408
6	Arturo Gil-Pinto, Philippe Fraisse and René Zapata A Decentralized Adaptive Trajectory Planning Approach for a Group of Mobile Robots	Room 408
7	Thomas Hellström and Ola Ringdahl Autonomous Path Tracking Using Recorded Orientation and Steering Commands	Room 408
8	David Jacob, Daniel Polani and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv Inferring dependencies in Embodiment-based modular reinforcement learning	Room 408
9	Bart Jansen Imitation of actions between differently embodied agents, without kinematics models and without feedback	Room 408

Poster Spotlights 2 - 12/08/05, 15:30-16:00

1	Thomas D. Jorgensen and Charlotte C. F. Norlund The use of mechanical accumulators in robot herrings	Room 408
2	Christian Mandel, Kai Huebner and Tilman Vierhuff Towards an Autonomous Wheelchair: Cognitive Aspects in Service Robotics	Room 408
3	Carlo Menon and Dario Izzo Satellite Pointing System based on EAP actuators	Room 408
4	Eduardo R. Miranda and Vadim Tikhanoff Musical Composition by Autonomous Robot: A Case Study with AIBO	Room 408
5	Gregory P. Scott and Alex Ellery Design of a Biomimetic Walking Mars Explorer for the ESA Bionics & Space Systems Design Contract (AO/1-4469/03/NL/Sfe)	Room 408
6	Matthew Szenher Visual Homing in Natural Environments	Room 408
7	Christfried Webers and Uwe R. Zimmer Real-time Modelling of Complex Dynamical Systems RTDSM	Room 408
8	Joerg C. Wolf and Guido Bugmann Multimodal Corpus Collection for the Design of User-Programmable Robots	Room 408