LAB-RS 2009

LAB-RS 2009 will take place in Iasi, Romania. The capital of the medieval principality of Moldavia, Iasi is a city immersed in history and culture, yet trendy and vibrant due to the tens of thousands of university students that live in Romania’s oldest -and second largest- university city. The social program will include a tour to the famous painted monasteries of Northern Moldavia and Iasi sightseeing.
Details available at the LAB-RS 2009 webpage.

LAB-RS 2008 proceedings online

IEEE Xplore now has the LAB-RS papers online (Here)

LAB-RS Best Paper Award and $1000 prize

Homayoun Seraji Award for best paper, won by R. Felix Reinhart and Jochen J. Steil, from Bielefeld University, Germany, for the paper Recurrent neural autoassociative learning of forward and inverse kinematics for movement generation of the redundant PA-10 robot.

LAB-RS Best Video Award and $1000 prize

The winner video is "CB2: Child Robot with Biomimetic Body" developed by: Tomoyuki Noda, Shuhei Ikemoto, Daniel Quevedo, Toshihiko Shimizu, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hisashi Ishihara, Yuki Sasamoto, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Minoru Asada from JST ERATO, Osaka University, Spray Studios, Japan.
We thank all finalists in the video competition, all videos shown at the symposium had received excellent feedback for their quality.

Final Program

Final Program is available now (Final Program)

Registration

Registration is open! Joint offers with the 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS): Get 20% discount on fees, when registering for both symposia! On August 6 there will be a joined session and banquet between LABRS and BLISS

Video Submission

Video Submission will be open till July 31, 2008. A $1000 prize will be awarded for best video, voted by attendants. Video submissions do not require LAB-RS registration/participation. Click to submit a Video!

Video Award
Best Video in Learning/Adaptive/Intelligent Systems
We invite submissions of short (~5 minutes) videos describing projects that bring learning/adaptation/intelligence value to a robotics/autonomous system. Upload your video providing similar details (title, authors) as for paper upload and include as comment the information on video format used. Please provide a URL for download of videos. Videos previously presented elsewhere are accepted; no copyrights are requested (there will be no distribution, only screening during the event on August 6th). Submission deadline is July 31, 2008. The audience will vote for the Best Video judging by relevance to learning/adaptive/intelligence in robotics or security (joined prize with BLISS 2008), scientific merit, and degree of excitment. A Prize of $1000 will be awarded to the winner.

Awards
Homayoun Seraji Award for Best Paper or Presentation
To honor the memory of Dr. Homayoun Seraji, of NASA/JPL, leading researcher in robotics (recognized in 2003 as the most published author in the 20 years history of the Journal of Robotic Systems). A Prize of $1000 will be awarded to the winner

Special Session: Live Demos We invite you to bring your robots to perform live demonstrations during the conference. Robotics companies are invited to demo their products. Please express your interest to the Program Chair: Adrian.Stoica@jpl.nasa.gov

LAB-RS 2008

The ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, LAB-RS 2008, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from August 6-8, 2008 during the festival period.

This Symposium is being held in conjunction with the ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS-2008) to be held at the same location on Aug 4-6, 2008.

For robotics researchers there is a chance to attend 2 robotics events by also participating first in Epigenetic Robotics, Brighton, UK, July 31- August 2, 2008 or the 17th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Munich, Germany, August 1-3, 2008.

Scope

Learning and adaptive behaviors are key to robotics system operation in real world environments. While there have been important developments at the theoretical level and in simulations or laboratory environments, the transfer of these methods onto real-world platforms has been limited.

This symposium will bring together researchers from academia and industry to report on new concepts, laboratory demonstrations, and fielded robotic systems that exhibit learning and adaptive behaviours. The goal of the symposium is to roadmap future directions for development of robotic systems with capabilities comparable to those of biological systems.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Paul S. Schenker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Space Robotics: Challenges to Learning and Adaptive Systems

Dr. Dario Floreano, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS), EPFL, Switzerland
How to Evolve Controllers for Truly Cooperative Robots

Topics

Papers

The deadline for research papers has passed, but we continue to accept 2 page abstracts, uploaded on the website.

Papers will be published in the Proceedings with IEEE Computer Society and will be available on IEEE Xplore within 3 Months after the LAB-RS 2008 Symposium.

Organisation

Symposium Chair

Terry Huntsberger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Symposium Co-Chairs

Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sethu Vijayakumar, University of Edinburgh, UK

Program Chairs

Adrian Stoica, University of Edinburgh, UK and ECSIS
Eddie Tunstel, Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, USA

Video Competition Track Chair

Didier Keymeulen, NASA/JPL, USA

Local Organizing Chair

Ahmed El-Rayis, University of Edinburgh, UK

Local Organizing Committee

Ahmet T. Erdogan, University of Edinburgh, UK
Erfu Yang, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nakul Haridas, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sebastian Bitzer, University of Edinburgh, UK
Alicia Morales, University of Edinburgh, UK
Matthew Howard, University of Edinburgh, UK
Djordje Mitrovic, University of Edinburgh, UK

Program Committee