Machine Learning Seminars by SimulaMet
Next Seminar
Speaker: Eric Medvet
- Universtiy of Trieste, Italy
Time and Date: 11:00am on Tuesday 11 February 2020
Location: Pilestredet 52, OsloMet AI Lab
Title:
Voxel-based soft robots: a platform for investigating Learning, Evolution, and Everything
Abstract:
Voxel-based soft robots (VSRs) are aggregations of many simple soft blocks (voxels) that can perform complex tasks by varying the volume of single blocks. The design of the body and the brain of a VSR for performing a given task is challenging, if tackled by hand, but can be successfully achieved by means of optimization (e.g., evolutionary computation and reinforcement learning). Indeed, VSRs optimization has been used for investigating various research topics, well beyond optimization and robotics. For example, VSRs have been used as a case study for reasoning about the interaction between development and evolution, two sorts of change that occurs to a lifeform on different time scales. Being aggregations of simple elements, VSRs pose also interesting challenges concerning modularity and reconfigurability that might be tackled building on the recent advancements in learning representations and multi-agent systems. The talk will present VSRs, descibe how they can be simulated, and discuss ongoing attempts to physically build them. It will cover recent research results involving VSRs and outline open questions and potentially interesting research opportunities.
Upcoming Seminars:
- Mon 23 March, Jørgen Kanters, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- April, Claudio Galicchio, University of Pisa, Italy
- Mon 11 May, Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- June, Max Pfeffer, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Past Seminars:
Autumn 2018
- Thu 9 Aug 2018, Tülay Adali, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Thu 23 Aug 2018, Jim Tørresen, University of Oslo
- Thu 06 Sep 2018, Mathias Lux, University of Klagenfurt
- Thu 20 Sep 2018, Morten Mørup, Technical University of Denmark
- Thu 11 Oct 2018, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Stockholm University. The slides
- Mon 29 Oct 2018, Remi Gribonval. INRIA and University of Rennes. The slides
- Thu 08 Nov 2018, Manuela Zucknick, UiO. The slides
- Thu 29 Nov 2018, Martha Larson, TU Delft
Spring 2019
- Mon 4 Feb 2019, Massimo Fornasier, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Mon 18 Feb 2019, Alexander Bronstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel. The slides
- Thu 14 Mar 2019, Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
- Mon 20 May 2019, Jeremy E. Cohen, CNRS, INRIA
- Mon 24 June 2019, Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine
Autumn 2019
- Mon 26 Aug 2019, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, University of Bergen
- Mon 23 September, Håvard Rue, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Thu 17 October, Essam Badreddin, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Mon 20 November, Hans de Sterck, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Mon 16 December, Klaus Schoeffman, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Spring 2020
- Mon 20 January, Wallapak Tavanapong, Iowa State University, USA
- Tue 11 Febuary, Eric Medvet, Universtiy of Trieste, Italy