Currently Running or About to Start Neuro-IT related projects for Student Exchange Activities

 

7th FWP 

 

BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal ACtive Touch

(BIOTACT)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr. Tony Prescott

University of Sheffield

Department of Psychology

Sheffield - UNITED KINGDOM

 

On-chip simultaneous intracellular recording and

stimulation of electrical and biochemical activities from

hundreds of neurons

(BRAINSTORM)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr Carmen Bartic

Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw IMEC

NEXT-Bio-electronic Systems (NEXTBE)

Heverlee - Belgium

 

A Brain-Chip Interface for High-resolution Bi-directional

Communication

(CYBERRAT)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. S. Vassanelli

Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova

Dept. of Human Anatomy and Physiology - section of Physiology

Padova - Italy

 

Life-like Artefact for Motor-Postural Experiments and

Development of new Control Technologies inspired by

Rapid Animal locomotion

(LAMPETRA)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Paolo Dario

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna

CRIM LAB

Pontedera (Pisa)- Italy

 

Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing

(NEUROCHEM)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr. Marco Santiago

Universitat de Barcelona, Electronica

Barcelona, Spain

 

Rehabilitation of a cerebellar function by a biomimetic

silicon chip

(RENACHIP)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr Angela Silmon

INEX

The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne - United Kingdom

 

Self-Constructing Computing Systems

(SECO)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Henry Kennedy

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau

Bron - France

 

6th FWP

 

Biosynthetic infochemical communication (ICHEM)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Cole, Marina

The University of Warwick

University House, Kirby Corner Road

Cv4 8uw   Coventry

United Kingdom

 

DAISY: Neocortical Daisy Architectures and Graphical Models for context-dependent Processing

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Henry Kennedy

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau

Bron - France

 

CILIA: Customized Intelligent Life-Inspired Arrays

Prof. Andreas Offenhäusser

Institute of Thin Films & Interfaces (ISG2)

Forschungszentrum Jülich

D-52425 Jülich, Germany

 

FACETS: Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States in Neural Architecture

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Meier
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 227
D-69120 Heidelberg
GERMANY

 

BACS: Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems

Prof. Roland Siegwart

ETH Zürich 

Department  Autonomous Systems Lab 

 CLA E

Tannenstrasse 3

CH-8092 Zürich

Switzerland

 

CASBLIP: Cognitive Aid System for Blind People

GITG - VALENCIA

Dto. Expresión Gráfica en la Ingeniería

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Camino de Vera s/n

46022 Valencia

Valencia (Spain) Contact email

gperis@degi.upv.es

 

CLASS: Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure

Bill Triggs (coordinator),

Bill.Triggs@inrialpes.fr, phone            

+33 4 7661 5233      

GRAVIR-INRIA, 655 avenue de l'Europe,

Montbonnot 38330, France

 

COMMROB: Advanced Behaviour and High-level Multimodal Communication With and Among Robots

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Gregor Novak

office@commrob.eu

Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384, 1040 Vienna

Room: CA0408

Austria

 

COSPAL: Cognitive Systems using Perception-Action Learning

Prof. Gösta Granlund
Computer Vision Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linköping University
SE-58183 Linköping
Sweden
gosta@isy.liu.se
http://www.isy.liu.se/~gosta/

 

DIRAC: Detection and Identification of Rare Audio-visual Cues

c/o IDIAP

Centre du Parc

Av. des Prés-Beudin  20

Case Postale 592

CH-1920 Martigny

Switzerland

Fax +41 27 721 7712

 

euCOGNITION: European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems

David Vernon

LIRA-Lab

University of Genoa

Viale F. Causa 13

16145 Genoa

Italy

E-mail: vernon@ieee.org

 

EURON: European Robotics Research Network

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design & Automation (PMA)

Celestijnenlaan 300B, B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

Tel: (+32)16 32 24 80      

Fax: (+32)16 32 29 87

 

GNOSYS: An Abstraction Architecture for Cognitive Agents

geogeo@ics.forth.gr

 

GUARDIANS: Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed In Aggregative Navigation supported by Scent detection

Microsystems and Machine Vision Lab

Materials and Engineering Research Institute

Faculty of ACES

Sheffield Hallam University

City Campus, Pond Street, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK

Tel: +44 (0)114 225 4520/3277/3301

Fax: +44 (0)114 225 3501

URL:

Currently Running or About to Start Neuro-IT related projects for Student Exchange Activities

 

7th FWP 

 

BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal ACtive Touch

(BIOTACT)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr. Tony Prescott

University of Sheffield

Department of Psychology

Sheffield - UNITED KINGDOM

 

On-chip simultaneous intracellular recording and

stimulation of electrical and biochemical activities from

hundreds of neurons

(BRAINSTORM)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr Carmen Bartic

Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw IMEC

NEXT-Bio-electronic Systems (NEXTBE)

Heverlee - Belgium

 

A Brain-Chip Interface for High-resolution Bi-directional

Communication

(CYBERRAT)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. S. Vassanelli

Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova

Dept. of Human Anatomy and Physiology - section of Physiology

Padova - Italy

 

Life-like Artefact for Motor-Postural Experiments and

Development of new Control Technologies inspired by

Rapid Animal locomotion

(LAMPETRA)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Paolo Dario

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna

CRIM LAB

Pontedera (Pisa)- Italy

 

Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing

(NEUROCHEM)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr. Marco Santiago

Universitat de Barcelona, Electronica

Barcelona, Spain

 

Rehabilitation of a cerebellar function by a biomimetic

silicon chip

(RENACHIP)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Dr Angela Silmon

INEX

The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne - United Kingdom

 

Self-Constructing Computing Systems

(SECO)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Henry Kennedy

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau

Bron - France

 

6th FWP

 

Biosynthetic infochemical communication (ICHEM)

Coordinator & Organisation:

Cole, Marina

The University of Warwick

University House, Kirby Corner Road

Cv4 8uw   Coventry

United Kingdom

 

DAISY: Neocortical Daisy Architectures and Graphical Models for context-dependent Processing

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Henry Kennedy

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau

Bron - France

 

CILIA: Customized Intelligent Life-Inspired Arrays

Prof. Andreas Offenhäusser

Institute of Thin Films & Interfaces (ISG2)

Forschungszentrum Jülich

D-52425 Jülich, Germany

 

FACETS: Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States in Neural Architecture

Coordinator & Organisation:

Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Meier
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 227
D-69120 Heidelberg
GERMANY

 

BACS: Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems

Prof. Roland Siegwart

ETH Zürich 

Department  Autonomous Systems Lab 

 CLA E

Tannenstrasse 3

CH-8092 Zürich

Switzerland

 

CASBLIP: Cognitive Aid System for Blind People

GITG - VALENCIA

Dto. Expresión Gráfica en la Ingeniería

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Camino de Vera s/n

46022 Valencia

Valencia (Spain) Contact email

gperis@degi.upv.es

 

CLASS: Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure

Bill Triggs (coordinator),

Bill.Triggs@inrialpes.fr, phone            

+33 4 7661 5233      

GRAVIR-INRIA, 655 avenue de l'Europe,

Montbonnot 38330, France

 

COMMROB: Advanced Behaviour and High-level Multimodal Communication With and Among Robots

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Gregor Novak

office@commrob.eu

Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384, 1040 Vienna

Room: CA0408

Austria

 

COSPAL: Cognitive Systems using Perception-Action Learning

Prof. Gösta Granlund
Computer Vision Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linköping University
SE-58183 Linköping
Sweden
gosta@isy.liu.se
http://www.isy.liu.se/~gosta/

 

DIRAC: Detection and Identification of Rare Audio-visual Cues

c/o IDIAP

Centre du Parc

Av. des Prés-Beudin  20

Case Postale 592

CH-1920 Martigny

Switzerland

Fax +41 27 721 7712

 

euCOGNITION: European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems

David Vernon

LIRA-Lab

University of Genoa

Viale F. Causa 13

16145 Genoa

Italy

E-mail: vernon@ieee.org

 

EURON: European Robotics Research Network

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design & Automation (PMA)

Celestijnenlaan 300B, B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

Tel: (+32)16 32 24 80      

Fax: (+32)16 32 29 87

 

GNOSYS: An Abstraction Architecture for Cognitive Agents

geogeo@ics.forth.gr

 

GUARDIANS: Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed In Aggregative Navigation supported by Scent detection

Microsystems and Machine Vision Lab

Materials and Engineering Research Institute

Faculty of ACES

Sheffield Hallam University

City Campus, Pond Street, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK

Tel: +44 (0)114 225 4520/3277/3301

Fax: +44 (0)114 225 3501

URL: www.shu.ac.uk/mmvl

 

HERMES: Human-Expressive Representations of Motion and their Evaluation in Sequence

Tonny Velin 

Address: Tablas de Daimiel n 2, 1 B

Alcorcon (Madrid)

Spain

Phone :  (+34) 91 619 74 45        

Fax :   (+34) 91 619 52 89 

 

INDIGO: Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled Robots

Prof. Panos Trahanias

Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory

Institute of Computer Science

Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

Science and Technology Park of Crete

Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385

GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

IWARD: Intelligent Robot Swarm for Attendance, Recognition, Cleaning and Delivery

 

MACS: Multisensory Autonomous Cognitive Systems

Dr.-Ing. Erich Rome

Fraunhofer Institute

Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS)

Autonomous Robots Department

Schloss Birlinghoven

53754 Sankt Augustin

Germany

 

MATHESIS: Observational Learning in Cognitive Agents

Prof. Eleni Savaki

Computational Neuroscience Group

Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics

Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

Science and Technology Park of Crete, Greece

MIAUCE: Multimodal Interactions Analysis and exploration of Users within a Controlled Environment

 

PACO-PLUS: Perception, Action and Cognition through Learning of Object-Action Complexes

Aalborg University ˇ Fredrik Bajers Vej 5 ˇ P.O. Box 159 ˇ DK - 9100 Aalborg ˇ Denmark ˇ Phone +45 9635 8080 ˇ aau@aau.dk

 

POP: Perception On Purpose

INRIA Rhône-Alpes

655, avenue de l'Europe

38330 Montbonnot, France

Radu.Horaud @inrialpes.fr

 Tel: +33 476 61 52 26

 Fax: +33 476 61 54 54

 

RASCALLI: Responsive Artificial Situated Cognitive Agents Living and Learning on the Internet

The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)

of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK)

Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria

Phone: (+43-1) 5336112-0

Fax: (+43-1) 5336112-77

 

Robots@home: An Open Platform for Home Robotics

 

ROBOT-CUB: Robotic Open-architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behaviours
Institut für Automatisierungs- und Regelungstechnik
Technische Universität, Wien
Gusshausstrasse 27-29 / E376
A-1040 Wien
Austria

 

RoSta: Robot Standards and Reference Architectures

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hägele M.S.

Head of Department Robot Systems

Fraunhofer IPA

Nobelstr. 12

70569 Stuttgart

Germany

Phone: +49 711 970-1203

Fax:      +49 711 970-1008

 

SENSOPAC: SENSOrimotor structuring of Perception and Action for emerging Cognition

ERASMUS MC

Prof. Dr. Chris de Zeeuw

+31 10 408 7299

c.dezeeuw(at)erasmusmc.nl

 

URUS: Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings

Alberto Sanfeliu

Institut de Robótica i Informática Industrial (UPC-CSIC), Departement of Automatic Control, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), U Building Pau Gargallo 5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

E-mail: sanfeliu@iri.upc.edu

 

VIEWFINDER: Vision and Chemiresistor Equipped Web-connected Finding Robots Microsystems and Machine Vision Lab

Materials and Engineering Research Institute

Faculty of ACES

Sheffield Hallam University

City Campus, Pond Street, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK

Tel: +44 (0)114 225 4520/3277/3301

Fax: +44 (0)114 225 3501

URL: www.shu.ac.uk/mmvl