4th EU-Japan Workshop on Neurorobotics

April 18-20, 2018

Meeting room 1, AIST Tokyo Waterfront

— Embodiment of informatics with neurorobotics

ABOUT

EU-Japan Workshop on Neurorobotics

The 4th Japan-EU Workshop on Neurorobotics is a three-day workshop hosted by two Japanese national institutes, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), as well as the Human Brain Project (HBP). The Neurorobotics has a significant potential to be a new framework for neurosciences to bridge between molecular-level biological knowledge and system-level phenomena: e.g., cognition, emotion, and motor functions.

Robotics started being motivated by the sophisticated complexity and flexible intelligence of the human. Neuroscience in turn approaches the molecular structure and mathematical function of the neural system as the place where the intelligence originates. The recent advance of computing system allows for the first time to meet the two frontiers of scientific research. In this workshop researchers from the Neurorobotics pillar of the Human Brain Project will discuss on the current studies of the field with well-known researchers from Japan working in the same or related domains.

 

In this workshop, we also introduce a RIKEN-AIST joint project, in which we are developing an endoskeletal robot suit (StillSuitTM) for the rapidly progressing ageing society: while our long-term objective is an effective social implementation of the robot suit in the Neurorobotics framework, we assume that the achievement of a genuine biology-robotics integration is more necessary as the fundamental part of our research, rather than the conventional bio-inspired robotics framework. For that, we believe that the collaboration with the Neurorobotics subproject of HBP is critically important.

As such, additional contributions from further researchers are more than welcome and highly appreciated. The workshop is targeted at scientists on all levels interested in the intersection between neuroscience and robotics.

 

Organizers:

Satoshi Oota (RIKEN)

Fabrice O. Morin (Technische Universität München)

Eiichi Yoshida (AIST)

Masaaki Mochimaru (AIST)

Yoshihiko Nakamura (University of Tokyo and RIKEN)

 

Event summary

 

  • When
    • April 18, 2018 (closed session)
      • from 15:00 to 18:00
    • April 19, 2018
      • from 09:00 to 17:00
    • April 20, 2018
      • from 10:00 to 12:40

 

  • Where
    • Tokyo, Japan

 

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

  • Rüdiger Dillmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Silvia Tolu (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Egidio Falotico (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
  • Henrik H Lund (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Gabriel Urbain (Ghent University)
  • Yoshihiko Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
  • Eiichi Yoshida (AIST)
  • Masaaki Mochimaru (AIST)
  • Hidekazu Kaneko (AIST)
  • Noriyuki Higo (AIST)
  • Oleg Gusev (RIKEN)
  • Ko Ayusawa (AIST)
  • Akihiko Murai (AIST)
  • Shingo Shimoda (RIKEN)
  • Hirohisa Hirukawa (AIST)
  • Jun Igarashi (RIKEN)
  • Satoshi Oota (RIKEN)

THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:

  • Fabrice Morin (Technische Universität München)
  • Ryutaro Himeno (RIKEN)

PROGRAM

April 18, 2018

15:00—20:00

Closed business meeting

Participants: All the core members listed above

 

April 19, 2018

9:00—9:10  

Welcome

9:10—9:40  

Masaaki Mochimaru, AIST:
Introduction of RIKEN-AIST Joint Project

9:40—10:10  

Yoshihiko Nakamura, University of Tokyo:

Performance Analysis of Athletes Using Neuromusculoskeletal 
Human Model

10:10—10:40  

Rüdiger Dillmann, KIT / FZI Karlsruhe:

Using Spiking Neural Networks in Closed-Loop Sensory-Motor Robotics Experiments

10:40—11:00

Coffee Break

11:00—11:30  

Silvia Tolu, Technical University of Denmark:

Using robots for understanding the cerebellar role in sensorimotor control

11:30—12:00  

Hidekazu Kaneko, AIST:

Effects of motion-inducing devices on task learning in rats

－Facilitating remodeling in the central nervous system－

12:00—12:30

Noriyuki Higo, AIST:

Training-induced recovery of hand movements following a focal brain lesion in macaque monkeys

12:30—13:30  

Lunch Break

13:30—14:00

Oleg Gusev, RIKEN:

Tissue remodeling as a biomarker:  promoter-level atlas of diversity of gene expression in the mammalian skeletal muscles

14:00—14:30

Gabriel Urbain (for Joni Dambre), Ghent University:

The NRP as a platform for transferable control of a compliant quadruped robot

14:30—15:00  

Satoshi Oota, RIKEN:

Of mice and men: a rodent musculoskeletal modeling to bridge genetics and neurorobotics

15:00—15:20  

Coffee break

15:20—15:50  

Ko Ayusawa, AIST:

Interspecies motion retargeting for analyzing human body dynamics

15:50—16:20

Egidio Falotico, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna:

Towards embedding data-driven brain models in robots

16:20—17:30

Industry session

16:20

Prof. Henrik Hautop Lund: introduction to industrial exploitation of neurorobotics insights

16:40

CEO K. Hasegawa: NeU brain science & Hitachi Moto Tiles experiments and results with HOT-1000

17:10

Senoh Mizuno (Y. Setoguchi, T. Yamaguchi, H. Sakai) + NeU (CEO K. Hasegawa): demonstration Moto Tiles & HOT-1000

17:30—18:30  

Lab tour

18:30—20:30

Reception

 

April 20, 2018

9:30—10:00  

Akihiko Murai, AIST:

Digital Human Technology Designs Human Interactions

10:00—10:30  

Jun Igarashi, RIKEN:

Introduction of large-scale neural network simulations in the project for a next-generation supercomputer in Japan

10:30—11:00  

Shingo Shimoda, RIKEN:

Symbiotic interaction with robots for supporting human behaviors

11:00—11:15  

Coffee break

11:15—11:45

Eiichi Yoshida, AIST:

Human-Centered Product Design and Evaluation through Integrated Motion Analysis using Digital Human and Humanoid 

11:45—12:15

Hirohisa Hirukawa, AIST:

Elderly-Care Robots for Normalization

12:15—12:25

Closing

 

VENUE

Meeting room 1, AIST Tokyo Waterfront

2 Chome-3-26 Aomi, Koto, Tokyo 135-0064, JAPAN

Phone: +81-03-3599-8001

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he 4th Japan-EU Workshop on Neurorobotics is a three-day workshop hosted by two Japanese national institutes, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), as well as the Human Brain Project (HBP). The Neurorobotics has a significant potential to be a new framework for neurosciences to bridge between molecular-level biological knowledge and system-level phenomena: e.g., cognition, emotion, and motor functions.