Also, we created artificial lives ourselves yesterday during the #ALIFE2023 excursion to teamLab's Future Park and Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Live @ Sapporo Art Museum - say hi to my strawberry hat squit (and me)!
Tanja Kaiser
Senior Researcher @ UTNš©āš¬ | Multi-Robot Systems | she/herā©
This morning, I presented our work on the evolution of dynamic collective behaviors by minimizing surprise #ALIFE2023. Despite being in the first session after last night's conference dinner, there was quite some audience! Thanks for showing up :)
Our ALifeConf 2023 paper is available online now (w/ @SwarmDynamics and Christopher Kluth)!
I will be presenting our work on "Evolving Dynamic Collective Behaviors by Minimizing Surprise" at #ALIFE2023 on Friday morning.
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/35/50/116922
I spent 2.5 days at Schloss Dagstuhl attending the GI dissertation award colloquium. There were plenty interesting talks about a variety of computer science-related topics on the program and I got to now many great researchers.
My colleague JK studies effects of human-swarm interaction, which (once again) gave me the opportunity to be paid for playing with robots + to become a model for science studies. Can you spot me in the paper and the video? š
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There is a new open PhD position in @SwarmDynamics group! I'm more than excited that it is related to my own PhD work. The successful applicant will work on active inference/surprise minimization for division of labor. Plus there is work with real robot swarms! https://twitter.com/SwarmDynamics/status/1623406062744240130
It was about time I set up a website that represents me as a researcher. Please have a look & let me know if something important is missing - or reach out if you would love to collaborate :)
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The "Minister-President" of our state gave us a visit today. We let him play with our robot swarm and he liked it. :)
Many thanks for the show to @msminirobot and Eddy.
#swarm #robotics #BW #Konstanz @ThymioII @CBehav
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Weitere Antrittsbesuche in #Konstanz: mit MP Kretschmann war Ministerin Olschowski an @UniKonstanz zu Besuch. Uns alle hat beeindruckt, wie sehr die Uni ihr Motto ācreative.togetherā lebt: Durch interdisziplā¦
https://twitter.com/mwk__bw/status/1613935966913441793
Spontaneously, I visited Museum Tinguely today. Jean #Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor who is known for his kinetic #art and #automata. The #sculpture in the fountain in front of the museum was only a small teaser of the works exhibited in the #museum.
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is beautiful book - inside and out! I enjoyed starting the new (reading) year with it a lot!
Last but not least, we combined our minimize surprise approach with MAP Elites to evolve diverse swarm behaviors in a single evolutionary run.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3520304.3528773
In a T-RO journal article, we published a summary of our results on using an intrinsic driver for prediction accuracy to evolve collective behaviors. Experiments were conducted in simple simulations, realistic simulators, and on real robots.
The second paper is about ROS2swarm, a ROS 2 package proving a framework for and library of collective behaviors for mobile ground robots. Iām looking forward to extending this work in the future ā hopefully with many collaborators!
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9812417/
As 2022 comes to an end, I want to recap the papers I published this year.
The first one appeared in January. Together with many talented students, @SwarmDynamics and I described how collective object manipulation behavior can be evolved on swarms of real robots using our intrinsic motivation for minimizing surprise.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92790-5_15
2022 has been a year full of challenges and adventures. Highlights were the many travels this year. Iāve been in work trips to Philadelphia, Boston, Prague, and Brussels. Itās amazing to have a job allowing me to explore the world while doing something I love.
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