Summer School on “Robotics - Biology Symbiosis”

September 19-21, 2017 South Kensington Campus, London, UK

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http://www.imperial.ac.uk/robotics/summer-school-2017

• Imperial College London has a concentration of research at the interface of robotics and biology www.imperial.ac.uk/robotics

• we take this opportunity to organise a research school on Robotics-Biology Symbiosis

• targeted mainly to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

ROBOTICS FORUM @

• Noah Cowan (Johns Hopkins U, limbs.lcsr.jhu.edu/people/cowan)

• Tobias Reichenbach (Imperial, www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/reichenbach)

• Barbara Webb (Edinburgh U, blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/insectrobotics)

• Etienne Burdet (Imperial, www.imperial.ac.uk/human-robotics)

ROBOTICS TO BIOLOGYi.e., robotics as a tool to investigate biology

• Jesung Koh (Ajou University, https://www.ajou.ac.kr/en/news/news01.jsp?mode=view&article_no=164518)

• Thrishantha Nanayakkara (Imperial, thrish.org)

• Mirko Kovak (Imperial, http://www.imperial.ac.uk/aerial-robotics)

• Franck Ruffier (CNRS, www.ism.univmed.fr/ruffier/anglais.html)

• Aditya Paranjape (Imperial, www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.paranjape)

BIOLOGY TO ROBOTICSe.g. bio-inspired robotics

• Art Kuo (U Michigan & U Calgary, www-personal.umich.edu/~artkuo/Lab)

• Yiannis Demiris (Imperial, www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis)

• Stefan Leutenegger (Imperial, http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/sleutene/)

• Jean-Paul Laumond (CNRS, homepages.laas.fr/jpl)

• Aldo Faisal (Imperial, http://www.faisallab.com/)

• Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena (Imperial, www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.rodriguez)

HUMAN-ROBOT SYMBIOSIS

• The nearest Underground station is South Kensington, on the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines

HOW TO GO TO IMPERIAL COLLEGE

• From South Kensington Tube Station, the campus is only a 10’ walk. Walk north up Exhibition Rd, turn at Imperial entrance:

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WHERE?

South Kensington

Buildings where wheelchair access is not possible at this time

1 Beit Quadrangle2 Imperial College Union3 Ethos Sports Centre4 Prince’s Gdns, North Side5 Weeks Hall6 Blackett Laboratory7 Roderic Hill Building8 Bone Building9 Royal School of Mines10 Aston Webb11 Bessemer Building

12 Goldsmiths Building13 Huxley Building14 ACE Extension15 William Penney Laboratory16 Electrical Engineering17 Business School18 53 Prince’s Gate19 Eastside20 Sherfield Building Student Hub Conference Office

21 Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment22 Faculty Building 23 58 Prince’s Gate 24 170 Queen’s Gate25 Central Library26 Queen’s Tower27 Skempton Building28 City and Guilds Building29 Southside

30 Sir Ernst Chain Building – Wolfson Laboratories31 Flowers Building32 Chemistry Building 33 Sir Alexander Fleming Building34 Chemistry RCS135 52 Prince’s Gate36 Alumni Visitor Centre

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WHAT&WHEN?

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Building/Room

9:00 9:30 Introduction:EtienneBurdetCityandGuilds(CAGBLT300)

9:30 11:00 Jean-PaulLaumond

11:00 12:00 StefanLeutenegger

12:00 13:30 Lunch(@Farmer'smarket) (Queen’sLawn)

13:30 14:30 YiannisDemiris (CAGBLT300)

14:30 16:00 NoahCowan

Tuesday,September19

16:00 18:00 refreshmentsandLabsvisit* Multipleplaces

*visitsinclude:

Leutenegger'sLab

AerialRoboticsLab

MechatronicsinMedicineLab

(Refreshmentswillbeservedat5thfloorofCityandGuildsBuilding)

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9:00 10:30 BarbaraWebb CityandGuilds(CAGBLT300)

10:30 11:00 teabreak

11:00 12:00 TobiasReichenbach

12:00 13:30 Lunch(Catering)

13:30 14:30 AdityaParanjape (CAGBLT300)

14:30 16:00 ArtKuo

Wednesday,September20

16:00 18:00 teabreakandTutorials** RoyalSchoolofMines(4thfloor)

**visitsinclude:

HumanRoboticsGroup

FaisalLab

Teawillbeservedat4thfloorofRoyalSchoolofMinesBuilding

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9:00 10:30 FranckRuffier CityandGuilds(CAGBLT200)

10:30 11:00 teabreak

11:00 12:00 MirkoKovac

12:00 14:00 Lunch EastsideRestaurant

14:00 15:00 AldoFaisal (CAGBLT200)

15:00 16:30 Je-SungKoh

Thursday,September21

16:30 16:45 teabreak

16:45 17:45 ThrishanthaNanayakkara

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Building/Room

9:00 10:30 BarbaraWebb CityandGuilds(CAGBLT300)

10:30 11:00 teabreak

11:00 12:00 TobiasReichenbach

12:00 13:30 Lunch(Catering)

13:30 14:30 AdityaParanjape (CAGBLT300)

14:30 16:00 ArtKuo

Wednesday,September20

16:00 18:00 teabreakandTutorials** RoyalSchoolofMines(4thfloor)

**visitsinclude:

HumanRoboticsGroup

FaisalLab

Teawillbeservedat4thfloorofRoyalSchoolofMinesBuilding

Building/Room

9:00 10:30 FranckRuffier CityandGuilds(CAGBLT200)

10:30 11:00 teabreak

11:00 12:00 MirkoKovac

12:00 14:00 Lunch EastsideRestaurant

14:00 15:00 AldoFaisal (CAGBLT200)

15:00 16:30 Je-SungKoh

Thursday,September21

16:30 16:45 teabreak

16:45 17:45 ThrishanthaNanayakkara

• From Heathrow airport Take the Underground (Piccadilly Line) to South Kensington Station (50’) (Heathrow Express is not directly connected to South Kensington, so it is not recommended)

• From Gatwick airport Take a national rail train to Victoria station (40’) and then by Underground, (Circle or District Line; westbound) to South Kensington

• From St Pancras train station If you arrive to at StPancras station with the Eurostar, you can take the Underground (Piccadilly Line) in the west direction to South Kensington Station, which will take 25’

• taxi is less reliable and not faster, so not recommended

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• fee: 190£ to cover the food and administrative costs

• how to pay the fees is explained at http://www.imperial.ac.uk/robotics/summer-school-2017

• participants pay for their travel and accommodation

• campus accommodation may be available at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/visit/summer-accommodation

• the complete programme will be available soon

REGISTRATION INFORMATION