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