IROS 2006
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China

[COGNIRON is organising a workshop on 'From sensors to human spatial concepts geometric approaches and appearance-based approaches']

see the ">workshop page

November 22 - 24, 2006

RO-MAN 2006
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
[RO-MAN 2006 was hosted by the University of Hertfordshire]

[COGNIRON sponsored a robot companion design contest for students: see webpage ]

INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

ICMI 2005
Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Trento, Italy

October 04-06, 2005

ECMR 2005
2nd Conference on Mobile Robotics, Ancona, Italy

RO-MAN 2005
14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Nashville, TN; USA

IROS 2005
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, Canada

IJCAI 2005
Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland

EPIROB 2005
5th Int. Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Nara, Japan

ICAR 2005
12th Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics, Seatle, Washington, USA

CIRA 2005
6^th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Espoo, Finland

ICRA 2005
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain

IST 2004
European Commission 2004 European Information Society Technologies (IST) event

Upcoming Workshops

Workshop on 'From sensors to human spatial concepts: geometric approaches and appearance-based approaches'
IEEE/RSJ IROS 2006, Beijing, China

See the Workshop page

Previous Workshops

Workshop on 'Cognitive Robots and Systems' @ ICRA2006
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA2006, Orlando, FL, USA

Workshop page: http://www2.laas.fr/ICRA2006-Cognition/

Workshop on 'Human-Robot Interaction and Communication in Human Environments'
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA2004, New Orleans, USA

CWSHRI'08: Cogniron Winter School on Human Robot Interaction,
Lausanne, Switzerland - January 21-25, 2008

In recent years, the focus of the robotics research has shifted from developing robots that are to be operated by professional users in well-controlled industrial environments to those that are able to naturally interact with non-professional users in dynamic, real-life environments. The EU-funded project COGNIRON (http://www.cogniron.org) addresses these research trends and targets at developing robot companions with advanced interaction capabilities in home environments. In order to make the gathered expertise and the latest findings in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) accessible to students and young researchers in the community, the COGNIRON winter school on HRI will cover the following topics:

* Interaction design of social robots
* Concepts for interaction management
* Learning and imitation
* Cognitive maps
* System integration facing real world challenges
* Evaluation of interactive robots

Related Summer Schools

CoSy Lite Summer School July 2005
4-8 July 2005 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) , Stockholm.

The objective of the CoSy - Lite summer school is to provide an overall intorduction to the field of cognitive systems and to give the students an opportunity to explore the field through practical exercises. The summer school is to provide an overview of topics such as z

• Robotics
• Dialogue Systems
• Recognition using Vision
• Reasoning and Representation
• Integration into systems

Previous Summer Schools

2nd Summer School on Simultaneaous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) 2004,
Toulouse, France - August 3-7, 2004

Autonomous mobile robots (on ground, undersea or in the air) must localize themselves in order to navigate. They also need to build a map of their environments in order to plan their motion and accomplish their missions efficiently.

These localization and mapping problems are actually interdependent and have to be solved concurrently, hence the question of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). This is a fundamental scientific problem and a necessary feature towards autonomy in mobile robots.
This is also a mandatory capacity in many applications where external localization means are unavailable, such as planetary exploration.

This summerschool was organized by Raja Chatila, Michel Devy (LAAS-CNRS) and Juan Domingo Tardos (U. Zaragoza). It was the second of its kind after a first event in Stockhom in August 2002 (http://www.cas. kth.se/SLAM/). It provided a comprehensive coverage of the key topics, state of the art in SLAM and application cases. The summer school combined of lectures by well known experts in the field and computer exercises (MATLAB, C++/C) involving groups of students.

RAS/IFRR Summer School on "Human-Robot Interaction",
Volterra, Italy - July 19-23, 2004

This event marks the first formal cooperation between the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the International Foundation of Robotics Research and is co-sponsored by both organizations as set forth in the Memorandum of Understanding execute by the corresponding Presidents of each Society (Prof. Paolo Dario and Prof. Oussama Khatib) signed on July 17th 2003. They have designated Prof. Henrik Christensen (KTH) and Prof. Ronald Arkin (GATECH) as the co-organizers for the first offering of this summer school.

Last year's theme is "Human-Robot Interaction". The aim of the event was to provide the highest quality of education in the area through a number of internationally recognized lecturers, joint student exercises, and hand-on experience.

This event took place on 19-23 July 2004, in the city of Volterra in Italy. The school was targetting an audiance of 30 Ph.D students / Post-doctoral students from across the world.