CMPE 699 Guided Research (Spring 2009)

Week 1:

• Lungarella, Metta, Pfeifer, and Sandini , "Developmental robotics: a survey",   Connection Science, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 151-190, December 2003.(Presenter: Ergin Ozkucur)
  
• Vernon, D.; Metta, G.; Sandini, G., "A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents," Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on , vol.11, no.2, pp.151-180, April 2007. (Presenter: Tekin Mericli)
• J. Weng, "Developmental Robotics: Theory and Experiments'' International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2004. (Presenter: Baris Gokce)

Week 2:

• Monica N. Nicolescu and Maja J. Mataric, "Learning and Interacting in Human–Robot Domains," IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS—PART A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, VOL. 31, NO. 5, SEPTEMBER 2001. (Presenter: Can Kavaklıoglu)
  
• Tamie Salter, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Ren´e te Boekhorst, "Learning about natural human–robot interaction styles," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54, 127–134,  2006. (Presenter: Daghan Dinc)
• Terrence Fong, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Kerstin Dautenhahn, "A Survey of Socially Interactive Robots: Concepts, Design, and Applications," CMU-RI-TR-02-29, 2002. (Presenter: Serhan  Danis)
  

Week 3:

• Brain Documentary Parts 1& 2

Week 4:

• Brain Documentary Parts 3 & 4

Week 5:

• Brain Documentary Parts 5 & 6

Week 6:

• Gökçen Yıldız, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Week 7:

• Albert Ali Salah, Computational modelling of visual attention.

Week 8:

• Brenna D. Argall, Sonia Chernova, Manuela Veloso, Brett Browning, "A survey of robot learning from demonstration,"Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2009. (Presenter: Tekin Mericli)
• Yiannis Demiris and Andrew Meltzoff, "The Robot in the Crib: A Developmental Analysis of Imitation Skills in Infants and Robots," Inf. Child Dev. 17: 43–53, 2008.  (Presenter: Baris Gokce).
• Michael L. Anderson, "How to study the mind: An introduction to embodied cognition," 2005.  (Presenter: Daghan Dinc) 
  
  
  

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Course Requirements

• Paper presentations 60%
  
• Term Project 40%

TERM PROJECT

• Project Description

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• IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
  

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