List of topics
The topics addressed in the program during the seasonal school are the following:
- Design of Experiments in Robotics
- Execution of Experiments in Robotics
- Experimental scenarios to evaluate performance, demonstrate generality, and measure robustness
- Well-grounded experimental methods
- Replication of Experiments in Robotics
- Relationship between benchmarking and replication of experiments with robots
- Reporting experiments in Robotics
- The R-Article process on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
- Examples of Good Experimental Practice
- Evaluation of Experimental Robotics Work
- Evaluation and Benchmarking in HRI
- Comparison of experimental methodology in neurosciences and in Robotics
- Comparison of experimental methodology in Biology and in Robotics
- Benchmark standardization
- Benchmarking autonomy, cognition and intelligence
- Scalable autonomy measurements
- Metrics for sensory motor coordination and visual servoing effectiveness and efficiency
- Performance metrics based on Shannon entropy related measures
- Performance metrics based on dynamical systems methods
- Performance modeling of the relationship between a task and the environment where it is performed
- Performance Metrics for Response Robotics
- Success metrics in bio-inspired Robotics
- Design of Robotics competitions
- Design of Robotics challenges
- Integration of experimental methods, benchmarking, challenges and competitions for a better evaluation of results
- Epistemological issues
