Speakers

• Mike Adams, University of Birmingham, UK
• Alessandro Farne, Multimodal INSERM France
• Michael Gresty, Imperial College, UK
• Vincent Hayward, UPMC, France
• Holger Krapp, Imperial College, UK
• Stefan Leutenegger, Imperial College, UK
• Giorgio Metta, IIT, Italy
• Andre Mouraux, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Patrick A. Naylor, Imperial College, UK
• George Peric, Swansea University, UK
• Tomaz Rodic, Tomaz Sustar C3M, Slovenia
• Betty Semail, Université Lille1, France
• Juergen Schmidhuber, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
• Jean-Louis Thonnard, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Rich Walker, Shadow Robot, UK
• Johan Wessberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Program

— Monday 18th of May 2015 —

1pm – 6pm: fundamental principles of tactile systems

— Tuesday 19th of May 2015 —

9am – 12:30am: tactile sensing modelling 1:30pm – 6pm: robotics and audition

— Wednesday 20th of May 2015 —

9am – 12:30am: vision and sense of motion in humans and robots 1:30pm: Social activities

— Thursday 21th of May 2015 —

9am – 12:30am: tactile displays, haptics applications and multimodal sen-sory integration 2pm – 5pm: Poster session

— Friday 22th of May 2015 —

9am – 10am: multisensory sensing in robotics 10 am- 12:30 am: demonstrations and roundtable

Detailed Program

Monday 18th May


12.00 – 13.00 Arrival and Lunch

Fundamental principles of tactile systems

13.00 – 14.00 Mike Adams: Contact mechanics and friction of the human finger pad
14.00 – 15.00 Jean-Louis Thonnard: Tactile acuity, vibrotaction and texture perception
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee & Tea
15.30 – 16.30 Andre Mouraux: Functional neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI) to explore the sense of touch in humans
16.30 – 17.30 Johan Wessberg: The roles and functions of human tactile mechanoreceptors
17.30 – 18.00 Q&A Session

wellcome drink

Tuesday 19th May


Morning: Tactile sensing modelling

09.00 – 10.00 George Peric Multiscale scale modelling of tissue biomechanics
10.00 – 11.00 Tomaz Rodic/Tomaz Sustar Virtual modelling of tactile systems
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee & Tea
11.30 – 12.30 Juergen Schmidhuber Machine Learning methods for tactile data
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Afternoon
13.30 – 14.30 Rich Walker Robotic hands and applications

Audio

14.30 – 15.30 Tobias Reichenbach Physiology of hearing
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee&Tea
16.00 – 17.00 Patrick A. Naylor Audition in robots
17.00 – 18.00 Q&A Session

gala dinner

Wednesday 20th May


Morning: vision and sense of motion

09.00 – 10.30Holger Krapp Vision in biological systems
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee&Tea
11.00 – 12.30 Stefan Leutenegger Robotic vision and inertial sensing
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

Afternoon Social activities/Excursion

Thursday 21st May


Tactile display and haptics applications

09.00 – 10.00 Vincent Hayward Tactile perception and illusions
10.00 – 11.00 Betty Semail Tactile displays: Design, Modelling and Control issues
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee&Tea
11.30 – 12.30 Alessandro Farne Multimodal sensory integration in humans
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Michael Gresty Sense of Motion
15.00 – 17.00 Poster Session Posters from all Fellows and attendees

Friday 22nd May


09.00 – 10.00 Giorgio Metta Multisensory sensing in robotics
10.00 – 11.30 Demonstrations
11.30 – 12.30 Roundtable for special issue
12.30 Lunch and depart