Full schedule of events (PDF format)
The full schedule of events for AMAM 2008 was last updated 21 May 2008. It may be revised periodically, so check back for updates.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
| 06/01/08 | 7:00PM | Welcoming Ceremony | |
| 7:30PM | Paolo Dario | Biomimetic Approaches to New Robotics | |
| 06/02/08 | 8:30AM | Jan Albiez | Multi Purpose Usage of Artificial Legs in Rough Terrain |
| 9:00AM | Robert Wood | Challenges for the Development of Robotic Insects | |
| 9:30AM | Martin Fischer | Walking, Climbing And Reaching: News on Kinematics and Dynamics and Questions About the Level of Control | |
| 10:00AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:15AM | Heiko Hoffmann | Movement generation by learning from demonstration and generalizing to new targets | |
| 10:30AM | Waleed Farahat | Impedance Matching as a Means of Enhancing Mechanical Energetics in Muscle-Actuated Systems | |
| 10:45AM | Jonas Buchli | Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion Over Very Rough Terrain | |
| 11:00AM | Tyson Hedrick | Perturbation Compensation in Insect Flight | |
| 11:15AM | Poramate Manoonpong | Neural Control for Locomotion of Walking Machines | |
| 11:30AM | Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30PM | Mark Cutkosky | Applying Principles from the Locomotion of Small Animals to the Design and Operation of Bio-Inspired Robots | |
| 2:30PM | Michael Dickinson | The Higher Order Control of Locomotor Behaviors in Fruit Flies | |
| 3:30PM | Coffee Break | At Village at 115 Residence Hall | |
| 3:45PM | Posters/Robot Zoo | At Village at 115 Residence Hall | |
| 7:30 PM | P. Hunter Peckham | Neuroprostheses for Movement Restoration | |
| 8:30PM | Roger Quinn | Animals as models for robot mobility and autonomy: Crawling, walking, running, climbing and flying | |
| 06/03/08 | 8:30AM | Hajime Asama | Mobiligence: Emergence of Adaptive Motor Function Through Interaction Among the Body, Brain, and Environment |
| 9:30AM | Hitoshi Aonuma | Synthetic Neuronethological Approach to Understand Experience Dependent Adaptive Behavior in the Cricket | |
| 10:00AM | Akio Ishiguro | Understanding Mobiligence Through Amoeboid Locomotion — A Case Study with a Modular Robot | |
| 10:30AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45AM | Koh Hosada | Jumping of an Anthropomorphic Robot Equipped with Biarticular Muscles | |
| 11:00AM | Katsuyoshi Tsujita | A Study on Locomotion Stability at the Variance of Joint Stiffness | |
| 11:15AM | Noriyasu Ando | Adaptability of Pheromone Tracking Behavior of the Silkmoth Revealed by the Insect-Controlled Robot | |
| 11:30AM | Kei Senda | Towards Realization of Stable Flapping-of-Wings Flight of Butterfly | |
| 11:45AM | Shinya Aoi | Computer Simulation of Adaptive Human Bipedal Locomotion Based on Phase Resetting Using Foot Contact Information | |
| 12:00PM | Lunch Break | Meeting of AMAM Steering Committee | |
| 2:00PM | Naomichi Ogihara | Synthetic Study of Quadrupedal/Bipedal Locomotion in the Japanese Monkey | |
| 2:30PM | Ryohei Kanzaki | Insect-Machine Hybrid System for Understanding an Adaptive Control in Biological Systems | |
| 3:30PM | Coffee Break | At Village at 115 Residence Hall | |
| 3:45PM | Posters/Robot Zoo | At Village at 115 Residence Hall | |
| 7:30 PM | Hiroshi Kimura | Robotics as a Tool for Gait and Posture Study | |
| 06/04/08 | 8:30AM | Malcolm MacIver | Acquiring Information Under Mechanical Constraints |
| 9:00AM | Metin Sitti | Aquatic Locomotion of Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale | |
| 9:30AM | Sanjay Sane | Antennal Mechanosensory Control of Insect Flight | |
| 10:00AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:15AM | Slava Arabagi | Simulation And Analysis Of A Passive Pitch Reversal Flapping Wing Mechanism | |
| 10:30AM | Akihiko Murai | A Neuromusculoskeletal Network Model for Analyzing and Simulating Adaptive Movements | |
| 10:45AM | Hyun Soo Park | Dynamic Modeling of a Basilisk Lizard Inspired Legged Robot Running on Water | |
| 11:00AM | John Nyakatura | Analysing the Suspensory Quadrupedal Locomotion of Sloths using Biplane X-ray Videography. Does Inverse Influence of Gravity Affect Basic Mammalian Kinematic Principles? | |
| 11:15AM | Emanuel Andrada | Body Stem and Extremities Share Driving and Adaptive Tasks in Human Walking | |
| 11:30AM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30PM | Ansgar Büschges | Neural Control of Insect Walking - From Joint Control to adaptive Locomotor Behavior | |
| 2:30PM | Keir Pearson | Memory-Dependent Modification of Stepping for Obstacle Avoidance | |
| 3:30PM | Coffee | At Village at 115 Residence Hall | |
| 3:45PM | Posters/Robot Zoo | At Village at 115 Residence Hall | |
| 6:30 PM | Banquet | Western Reserve Historical Society | |
| 06/05/08 | 8:30AM | Josef Schmitz | Embodied Neuronal Networks for the Control of a Hexapod Walker |
| 9:00AM | Auke Ijspeert | Exploring the mechanisms of gait transition from swimming to walking in salamander using robots and mathematical models of CPGs | |
| 9:30AM | Marc Raibert | BigDog, a Quadruped Robot for Rough-Terrain | |
| 10:30AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45AM | Cristina Santos | A Dynamical Systems Approach for Movement Generation | |
| 11:00AM | Jack Gray | Can a Single Neural Pathway Drive Complex Behaviour? | |
| 11:15AM | Ryuma Niiyama | A Pneumatic Biped with an Artificial Musculoskeletal System | |
| 11:30AM | J.Sean Humbert | Bio-Inspired Visuomotor Convergence | |
| 11:45AM | Robert Kirsch | A Neuroprosthesis for Restoring Arm and Hand Function via Functional Electrical Stimulation Following High Cervical Spinal Cord Injury | |
| 12:00PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:00PM until 2:00PM | Public Robot Demos | Great Lakes Science Center | |
| 3:00PM | Lena Ting | Neuromechanical Redundancy and Hierarchy in Posture and Movement | |
| 3:30PM | Barbara Webb | Insect Brains and Robot Control | |
| 6:30 PM | Excursion to GLSC | Great Lakes Science Center | |
| 06/06/08 | 8:30AM | Barry Trimmer | Neuromechanics using Soft Materials: Animal Models and Supple Robots |
| 9:30AM | Mirko Kovac | Towards a Self-Deploying Microglider | |
| 10:00AM | Dawn Taylor | Tapping into the Brain for Control of Assistive Devices | |
| 10:30AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45AM | Alexander Sproewitz | Locomotion in Modular Robots based on Central Pattern Generators | |
| 11:00AM | Sarah Degallier | A Bio-Inspired Architecture for Movement Generation | |
| 11:15AM | Ludovic Righetti | Quadruped Locomotion: from Infants Crawling to The Design of Pattern Generators for Quadruped Robots | |
| 11:30AM | Simon Gistzer | Modularity and Simplifying Strategies in Intact and Spinalized Rodent Locomotion | |
| 11:45AM | Jusuk Lee | Toward a Neuromechanical Model for Adaptation and Control of Human Running | |
| 12:00PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:00PM | Mitra Hartmann | Principles of Active Sensing: Insights from the Rat Vibrissal System | |
| 2:30PM | Kiisa Nishikawa | Neuromechanics of Elastic Energy Storage and Recovery During Ballistic Movements | |
| 3:30PM | Closing Ceremony |