2007 Publications
Kawamura, K. and Browne, W. N., "Cognitive Robotics", chapter, in Springer Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer Science, Heidelberg, Germany. (to be published in late 2007 or early 2008)Kawamura, K., "Synthetic Approach to Cognitive Systems: A Perspective from Cognitive Robotics", Invited Talk, Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), From Adaptive Control to Cognitive Control, San Diego, CA, November 2, 2007.
Kawamura, K., "Cognitive Robotics: What it is and Why it is Important for the Assistive Robotics Community", Proc. 8th International Workshop on Human-friendly Welfare Robotic Systems (HWRS2007), KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, October 21-23, 2007.
Fleming, P.A., Fleming, K.A., Lammlein, D., Wilkes, D.M., Bloodworth, T.S., Cook, G.E., Strauss, A.M., DeLapp, D. and Prater, T. "Automatic fault detection in Friction Stir Welding," Materials Science and Technology Conference, Detroit, Michigan, September 16-20, 2007.
Tugcu, M., Wang, X., Hunter, J.E., Phillips, J., Noelle, D., and Wilkes, D. M. "A computational Neuroscience model of working memory with application to robot perceptual learning", Third IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2-4 2007.
Fleming, P.A., Bloodworth, T.S., Prater, T., Lammlein, D., Cook, G.E., Strauss, A., Wilkes, D.M., Delapp, D., Lienert, T.J., and Bement, M. "Automatic Fault Detection in Friction Stir Welding," presentation, 18th Aeromat Conference and Exposition, Baltimore, Maryland, June 25-28, 2007.
Fleming, P.A., Bloodworth, T.S., Lammlein, D., Prater, T., Cook, G.E., Strauss, A., Wilkes, D.M., Delapp, D., Lienert, T.J., and Bement, M. "An investigation into tool wear detection in friction stir welding," presentation, 18th Aeromat Conference and Exposition, Baltimore, Maryland, June 25-28, 2007.
Conn, K. & Peters, R.A. II, "Reinforcement Learning with a Supervisor for a Mobile Robot in a Real-world Environment", In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA 2007), Jacksonville, Florida, June 20-23 2007.
Fleming, P.A., Bloodworth, T.S., Lienert, T.J., Bement, M., Cook, G.E., Strauss, A.M., Wilkes, D.M., DeLapp, D., Prater, T. and Lammlein, D. "Hydrogen generation in friction stir welding of aluminum underwater," presentation, 5th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Brooklyn, New York, June 18-20, 2007.
Kawamura, K., Gordon, S., Ratanaswasd, P., Garber, C., and Erdemir, E. "Implementation of Cognitive Control for Robots", Proc. of the 4th COE Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM), pp. 41-54, Tokyo Denki University, Japan, March 2-3, 2007
Kawamura, K., Gordon, S.M., Ratanaswasd, P., "Robotic Body-Mind Integration: Next Grand Challenge in Robotics", in Industrial Robotics: Theory, Modelling, and Control, A. Cubero, ed., Chapter 1, pp. 1-42, Verlag Robert Mayer-Scholz, Germany, January 2007.
Ph.D. Dissertations
Palis Ratanaswasd, Implementation of Cognitive Control in a Humanoid Robot, Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, December 2007.Soradech KrootJohn, Video image processing using MPEG technology for a mobile robot, Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, August 2007.
Mert Tugcu, A computational neuroscience model with application to robot perceptual learning, Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, August 2007.
Xiaochun (Amy) Wang, A Vision-Based Perceptual Learning System for Autonomous Mobile Robot, Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, August 2007.