images of electric fish and robotic electrosense platforms

International Workshop on Robotic Electrosense

August 3, 2012, College Park, Maryland USA

Organizers:
Malcolm A. MacIver, Northwestern University, USA
Frédéric Boyer, École des Mines de Nantes, France

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Schedule

Time Title/Authors
8:00am-8:10am Welcome, announcements.
 
8:10am-8:30am Towards dynamic perceptual cues in active electroreception: modelling of electric image flow based on sensory related behavior.
Juan I. Sanguinetti-Scheck, Volker Hofmann, Jacob Engelmann, and Leonel Gómez-Sena.
8:30am-8:50am Object attributes through active electric glasses.
Angel Caputi and Carolina Pereira
8:50am-9:10am Motion parallax and electrolocation.
John E Lewis, Colleen Young
9:10am-9:30am Wireless recording and computational modeling of natural electrosensory input in freely swimming electric fish.
Haleh Fotowat, Reid R. Harrison, and Rüdiger Krahe
9:30am-9:50am Coffee break
 
9:50am-10:10am Electrosense physics - some calculations.
Michael Peshkin
10:10am-10:50am Electric field sensing
Joshua R. Smith.
10:50am-11:10am Mathematical model for active electrolocation: from multi-frequency measurements to polarization tensors
Thomas Boulier
11:10am-12:10pm Electro-navigation in Angels from model based to reactive approaches
F. Boyer, V. Lebastard, C. Chevallereau, N. Servagent
12:10pm-1:50pm Group Photo & Lunch
 
1:50pm-2:10pm Combining Robotic Swimming and Electric Perception: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives
Yannick Morel, Auke J. Ijspeer, and Mathieu Porez
2:10pm-2:30pm Sensing Capacitance of Underwater Objects in Bio-inspired Electrosense
Yang Bai, James Snyder, Yonatan Silverman, Michael Peshkin, and Malcolm A. MacIver
2:30pm-2:50pm Exploration of objects by reactive navigation
Vincent Lebastard, Fréderic Boyer, Christine Chevallereau, and Noël Servagent
2:50pm-3:30pm Underwater Navigation Using Electrosense Feedback
James R Solberg, Michael Peshkin, and Malcolm MacIver.
3:30pm-3:50pm Coffee break
 
3:50pm-4:10pm Object position tracking using electrical impedance tomography
James B. Snyder, Yonatan Silverman, Yang Bai, and Malcolm A. MacIver
4:10pm-4:30pm Location and Orientation Estimation with an Electrosense Robot
Yonatan Silverman, James Snyder, Yang Bai, and Malcolm A. MacIver
4:30pm-4:50pm Electric sense in underwater robots: the ideal paradigms for studying the interactions between morphology, perception, and locomotion
Girin Alexis, Mintchev Stefano, Morel Yannick, and Stefanini Cesare
4:50pm-5:15pm Past and future of bio-inspired electrosense
Malcolm MacIver