Activities

Recent Activities of the Technical Committee:

The technical committee regularly organizes special sessions associated with the "Robot learning" RAS keyword. If you want your paper to be considered for such a session and have used the above keyword in your submission, please forward an email to the TC co-chairs (contact info at: http://www.ieee-ras.org/robot-learning/contact). The technical committee will not be involved in the reviewing process but will organize the session based on the list of accepted submissions with this keyword.

TC-organized Workshops

This is a summary of the workshops which were organized by the IEEE TC on Robot Learning:

• IROS 2012: Beyond Robot Grasping - Modern Approaches for Dynamic Manipulation
• AIMSA 2012: Advances in Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction
• ICRA 2010: Approaches to Sensorimotor Learning on Humanoid Robots
• R:SS 2009: Bridging the gap between high-level discrete representations and low-level continuous behaviors
• DAGSTUHL 2009: Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments
• IROS 2008: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning II
• NIPS 2007: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning

Detailed list of TC activities

• Special Issue on Robot Learning in Practice, IEEE RAM
  Special Issue June 1, 2010
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
  Special Issue on Robot Learning in Practice
  Deadline : October 1st 2009
  Issue date: June 2010
  
  
• Active learning and intrinsically motivated exploration in robots
  Special Issue January 31, 2010
  Joint special issue with the IEEE CIS Technical committee on Autonomous Mental Development.
  
  
• NIPS 2009 Workshop on Probabilistic Approaches for Robotics and Control
  Workshop December 11, 2009 - Whistler, BC, Canada
  
  
• Machine Learning and Motor Learning for Nonlinear Control
  Talk September 14, 2009 - NSF CMMI
  Workshop on Neuro-Mechanics
  
  Invited overview talk to convince the NSF Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) directorate that they should be paying attention to machine learning.
  
  
• A Road Map for Motor Skill Learning
  Tutorial September 7, 2009 - Bled, Slovenia
  
  First International Workshop on LEarning and data Mining for Robotics (LEMIR 2009) 

• Special Issue on Robot Learning, Autonomous Robots
  Special Issue September 1, 2009 - N.A.
  
  Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Robot Learning. Edited by Jan Peters (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics) and Andrew Ng (Stanford)
  
  
• Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments
  Workshop August 16, 2009 - Dagstuhl, Germany
  
  
• Robot Learning Summer School
  Summer School July 20, 2009 - Lisbon, Portugal
  Contact Information: Manuel Lopes
  
  
• R:SS 2009 Workshop: Bridging the gap between high-level discrete representations and low-level continuous behaviors
  Workshop June 28, 2009 - Seattle, WA, USA
  
  
• The Role of Function Approximation for both Regression and Classification in Robotics
  Talk June 28, 2009 - Seattle, WA, USA
  
  
• Reinforcement Learning by Reward-Weighted Regression
  Talk June 28, 2009 - Seattle, WA, USA
  
  
• ICRA-2010 Workshop: Approaches to Sensorimotor Learning on Humanoid Robots
  Workshop May 17, 2009 - Kobe, Japan
  
  
• Learning to Fly Like a Bird
  Keynote April 15, 2009 - The Learning Workshop (Snowbird)
  
  Learning-based nonlinear control for difficult to model systems. Also as Invited Talk at ISRR 2009.
  
  
• IROS Workshop on Challenges for Robot Learning II
  Workshop September 19, 2008 - Nice, France
  
  Robot Learning Workshop to introduce the TC upon establishment.
  
  
• Robot Learning
  Tutorial August 26, 2008 - Nice, France
  
  Keynote at IROS 2008 Workshop: From motor to interaction learning in robots.

• Motor Skill Learning for Cognitive Robotics
  Tutorial July 22, 2008 - Patras, Greece
  
  Tutorial on Robot Learning to the International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems and The 6th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop.

• Towards Motor Skill Learning in Robotics
  Keynote June 28, 2008 - Zuerich, Switzerland
  
  
• NIPS Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning I
  Workshop December 7, 2007 - Whistler, CA
  NIPS Workshop preparing the Emergence of the TC