Section: Dissemination

Animation of the Scientific Community

Editorial boards

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as Editor of the IEEE CIS AMD Newsletter, and member of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Autonomous Mental Development.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Frontiers in Neurorobotics (Frontiers Foundation), International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer).

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as member of the editorial board of the book series Advances in Interaction Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Steering committees

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, and participated to the setting up of the second joint conference with IEEE ICDL, i.e. the IEEE ICDL/Epirob conference that was held in San Diego, US.

Manuel Lopes participated in the steering committee of the IEEE TC on Robot Learning.

Conference Organization

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer co-organized the third International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, and was co-editor of the proceedings [67] , [59] : http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2012/ (together with A. A. Salah, Cetin Mericli and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar).

Program Committees

Freek Stulp was on the program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning/Epigenetic Robotics.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was a member of the following program committees: IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2012; IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS); 3rd International Workshop on Human-Behaviour Understanding (HBU).

Manuel Lopes was on the program committee of STAIRS/ECAI, AAAI, Inter. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions and European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL).

Journal Reviews

David Filliat reviewed papers for the journals: Autonomous Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

Freek Stulp reviewed papers for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer reviewed papers for the journals:IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Neural Networks.

Manuel Lopes reviewed for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Advanced Robotics.

Alexander Gepperth was a reviewer for the journals "Cognitive Computation", "Neural Processing Letters" and "Intelligent Transportation Systems".

Thomas Degris was a reviewer for the Neural Computation Journal and Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle.

Conference Reviews

Alexander Gepperth reviews articles for the International Conference on Neurally Inspired Processing (ICONIP) and the ACM/IEEE HRI conference.

Freek Stulp was reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-EpiRob), IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN).

David Filliat was reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) and the 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO).

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was a reviewer for the conferences IEEE ICDL-EPIROB, Humanoids, ICRA.

Pierre Rouanet has reviewed papers for the IEEE 2012 ICRA conference, IEEE 2011 IROS conference and IEEE HRI 2011 workshop "Expectations in intuitive HRI".

Thomas Cederborg has has reviewed one paper for the IROS 2012 conference, one paper for the ICDL-EpiRob 2012 conference and one paper for the HBU 2012 conference.

Jonathan Grizou has reviewed papers for the IEEE ICDL 2012 conference.

Sao Mai Nguyen has reviewed a paper for IROS 2012, ICDL 2012 and a workshop of IROS 2012.

Olivier Mangin has reviewed papers for the Humanoid 2012 conference, for the Human Behavior Understanding 2012 workshop, and for the ICRA 2013 conference.

Thomas Degris has reviewed papers for the ICDL Epirob 2012 conference.

PhD Jury

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was rapporteur in the PhD jury of Matthias Rolf (Bielefeld University, Germany), for its PhD entitled “Goal babbling for an efficient bootstrapping of inverse models in high dimensions”, as well as rapporteur in the PhD jury of Duong Dang (LAAS CNRS, France), for its PhD entitled “Manipulation et locomotion en robotique humanoïde avec optimisation en temps réel des pas”, and also participated to the PhD jury of John Nassour (Univ. Versailles, France; and TUM, Germany), for its PhD entitled “Success-failure learning for humanoid: study on bipedal walking”.

David Filliat was rapporteur in the PhD jury of Mathieu Dubois (Méthodes probabilistes basées sur les mots visuels pour la reconnaissance de lieux par un robot mobile, 20/02/12), of Thomas Moulard (Optimisation numérique pour la robotique et exécution de trajectoires référencées capteurs, 17/09/12), of Fengchun Dong (Vision sensor design and evaluation for autonomous navigation, 22/11/12), of Ahmad Mohammed Hasasneh (Robot semantic place recognition based on deep belief networks and a direct use of tiny images, 23/11/12) and participated in the jury of Pierre Rouanet (Apprendre à un robot à reconnaître des objets visuels nouveaux et à les associer à des mots nouveaux : le rôle de l'interface, 04/03/12).

Manuel Lopes acted as member of the advising committee for the PhD thesis of: Pedro Sequeira entitled ”Biologically-inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Learning in Autonomous Agents”, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, and Salomon Ramire entitled ”Active Vision in the Peripersonal Space for Humanoid Robots”, University of Plymouth, England.

Alexander Gepperth is/will be rapporteur in the PhD jury of Michael Garcia Ortiz, for his PhD entitled "Driver Behavior Prediction in intelligent vehicles", to be submitted to the university of Bielefeld, Germany in January 2013.

Expertise

David Filliat reviewed projects for the 'Programme Evaluation-orientation de la Coopération Scientifique (ECOS)'. 

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was expert for the European Commission for review and evaluations of several FP7 projects and calls (ICT and FET). He was also reviewer for ANR projects', and was a member of Commission de Développement Technologique, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest.

Manuel Lopes participated in the Cost-Gtri: Groupe de travail des relations internationales du comite d'orientation scientifique et technologique.

Thomas Degris reviewed a project proposal in Reinforcement Learning for the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).