Schedule for Developmental Robotics Symposium

Monday, March 21 2005
Developmental Robotics AAAI Spring Symposium, 2005
9:00	Welcome and Introduction Doug Blank and Lisa Meeden
Paper session: Philosophical Issues for Developmental Robotics
9:30	Evolving AI Pentti Kanerva
10:00	How cognizers come to know their world and what this implies for cognitive robots Alexander Kovacs and Haruki Ueno
10:30	BREAK
Paper session: Manipulation and Self-Awareness
11:00	Learning about the self and others through contingency Kevin Gold and Brian Scassellati
11:30	Toward learning the binding affordances of objects: A behavior-grounded approach Alexander Stoytchev
12:00	A developmental approach to grasping Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini
12:30	LUNCH
Paper session: Intrinsic Motivation
2:00	Auto-supervised learning in the Bayesian programming framework Pierre Dangauthier, Pierre Bessiere and Anne Spalanzani
2:30	Intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning: A promising framework for developmental robot learning Andrew Stout, George Konidaris and Andrew Barto
3:00	The Playground environment: Task-independent development of a curious robot Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Frederic Kapalan, Verena Hafner and Andrew Whyte
3:30	BREAK
Panel session: Intrinsic Motivation
4:00 - 5:30	Andrew Barto, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Michael Littman, and James Marshall
Tuesday, March 22 2005
Paper session: Developmental Architectures
9:00	Perceptual memory and learning: Recognizing, categorizing, and relating Stan Franklin
9:30	A framework for the development of robot behavior Roderic Grupen and Manfred Huber
10:00	Automatic language acquisition by an autonomous robot Stephen Levinson, Kevin Squire, Ruei-sung Lin and Matthew McClain
10:30	BREAK
Special Session: Bootstrapping Commonsense Knowledge Through Sensorimotor Experience
11:00 - 12:30	Bootstrap Learning of Foundational Representations Patrick Beeson, Benjamin Kuipers and Joseph Modayil
12:30	LUNCH
Paper session: Psychologically-Inspired Models of Development
2:00	An embodied mechanism for autonomous action selection and dynamic motivation Lee Mccauley
2:30	Towards a what-and-where model of infants' object representations Matthew Schlesinger and Roberto Limongi
3:00	Self-Motivated Development Through Rewards for Predictor Errors/Improvements Juergen Schmidhuber
3:30	BREAK
Special session
4:00 - 5:30	Poster session
	Learning to focus reasoning in a reactive agent Nima Asgharbeygi and Negin Nejati Biologically Inspired Autonomous Mental Development Model Based on Visual Selective Attention Mechanism Sang-Woo Ban, Hirotaka Niitsuma, and Minho Lee Driven by novelty? Integrating executive attention and emotion for autonomous cognitive development Jason Garforth and Anthony Meehan SOVEREIGN: A self-organizing, vision, expectation, recognition, emotion, intelligent, goal-oriented navigation system William Gnadt and Stephen Grossberg Using robots for the study of human social development Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa and Hiroyuki Yano Scale invariant associationism, liquid state machines, and general purpose ontogenetic learning in robotics Anthony Morse Learning at the edge of chaos: Temporal coupling of spiking neurons controller for autonomous robotics Hedi Soula, Aravind Alwan and Guillaume Beslon
Plenary session
6:00 - 7:00	Each symposium has a representative that presents their topic in a 10-minute slot
Wednesday, March 23 2005
Paper and Panel Session: Tasks and developmental robotics
9:00 - 10:30	Doug Blank, Michael Rilee, Juergen Schmidhuber, Juyang Weng
	An emergent framework for self-motivation in developmental robotics Jim Marshall, Douglas Blank, and Lisa Meeden Working notes on a developmental approach to autonomous spacecraft and the recovery of the Hubble Space Telescope Michael Rilee, Steven A. Curtis, John E. Dorband, Cynthia Y. Cheung, Jacqueline J. LeMoigne, David E. Lary, and Hamse Y. Mussa Juergen Schmidhuber Muddy tasks and the necessity of autonomous mental development Juyang Weng
10:30	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30	Demos, videos, and tools

Developmental Robotics AAAI Spring Symposium, 2005