Prof. Patrick Henaff from Ecole des Mines de Nancy (computer science department), University of Lorraine is visiting the School of Informatics
and he is going to give the following invited talks:
Title: Neural modelling for robotics – Tuesday 4th of April at 17.00 – classroom: H4 central building
– Introduction about motor nervous system
– Neural networks models for mobile robotics: Reactive approach : Braitenberg vehicle
– Reminder on multilayer perceptron and back-propagation algorithm
Title: Neural learning control for mobile robots – Tuesday 4th of April at 19.15 – classroom: H6 central building
– Learning the control with multilayer perceptrons and back-propagation algorithm:
– closed loop Learning
Title: Practice with the Vrep Simulator – Wednesday 5th of April at 16.30 – classroom: HA4 Kalamaria branch
(laptop is necessary, whatever the OS)
– Simulation of Braitenberg vehicle with the Vrep Simulator
– Backpropagation for learning to control mobile robot
– closed loop learning a control law and reflex behavior
Keywords: Robotics, Locomotion, Handshaking, Learning, Neural Networks, Neural control, Central Pattern Generator (CPG), legged locomotion, sensorimotor coordination, biped locomotion, Humanoid robotics
The lectures will be broadcasted online in the following zoom address:
Panagiotis Katsaros
Short CV
P. Henaff received an M.S degree in Robotics from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Robotics in 1994 at the Paris Robotic Laboratory, University of Pierre et Marie Curie. From 1997 to 2013, he was Associate Professor at the Institute of Technology of Cergy-Pontoise. From 1997 to 2009, he worked as a researcher at the Systems Engineering Laboratory of the University of Versailles. From 2009 to August 2013 he worked as a researcher at the ETIS lab (CNRS).
Since September 2013, Patrick Henaff is a full Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (computer science department), University of Lorraine. He works as a researcher at the LORIA lab, Neurorhythms teams. He was the head of Department “Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics” at LORIA from 2015 to 2022. His topics of interest concern the bioinspired control in robotics, particularly the neural network biological models dedicated to control rhythmic motions of humanoids robots during the walk or during their physical and/or social interaction with humans.