Publications

This is an incomplete list of publications that describe or use Ikaros.

  1. Balkenius, C., Morén, J., Johansson, B and Johnsson, M. (2010). Ikaros: Building Cognitive Models for Robots. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24, 1, 40-48. [doi: 10.1016/j.aei.2009.08.003] [PDF]
  2. Johnsson, M., Morén, J., and Winberg, S. (2009). Interactions between Motivation, Emotion and Attention: From Biology to Robotics. In Canamero, L., Oudeyer, P.-Y. & Balkenius, C. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Lund Univeristy Cognitive Studies, 145.
  3. Johnsson, M., Balkenius, C., and Hesslow, G. (2009). Associative Self-Organizing Map. In the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2009, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 363-370.
  4. Balkenius, C. and Winberg, S. (2008). Fast Learning in an Actor-Critic Architecture with Reward and Punishment, In A. Holst, P. Kreuger and P. Funk (Eds) Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2008) (pp. 20-27). Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 173. IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-58603-867-0.
  5. Johnsson, M., and Balkenius, C. (2008). Recognizing Texture and Hardness by Touch. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008) (pp. 482-487), Nice, France.
  6. Balkenius, C., Förster, A., Johansson, B., and Thorsteinsdottir, V. (2008). Anticipation in Attention. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M. V., Castelfranchi, C., and Falcone, R. The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems. LNAI, 5225. Berlin: Springer.
  7. Balkenius, C., Morén, J., Johansson, B. and Johnsson, J. (2008). Ikaros: Building Cognitive Models for Robots. In Hülse, M. and Hild, M. (Eds). Workshop on current software frameworks in cognitive robotics integrating different computational paradigms.
  8. Johansson, B. and Balkenius, C. (2009). Prediction Time in Anticipatory Systems. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M., Sigaud, O. and Baldassare, G. (Eds.). Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS 2008). Berlin: Springer. [doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02565-5]
  9. Johansson, B. and Balkenius, C. (2008). Learning to Anticipate the Movements of Intermittently Occluded Objects. In Schlesinger, M., Berthouze, L. and Balkenius, C. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Lund Univeristy Cognitive Studies, 139.
  10. Balkenius, C. and Johansson, B. (2007). Anticipatory Models in Gaze Control: A Developmental Model. Cognitive Processing, 8, 167-174.
    [doi:10.1007/s10339-007-0169-8].
  11. Johnsson, M. and Balkenius, C. (2007). Neural Network Models of Haptic Shape Perception, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 55, 720-727.
    [doi:10.1016/j.robot.2007.05.003].
  12. Johansson, B. and Balkenius, C. (2007). An Experimental Study of Anticipation in Simple Robot Navigation. In Butz, M. (Ed.) Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems II. Berlin: Springer.
  13. Kiryazov, K., Petkov, G., Grinberg, M. , Kokinov, B., and Balkenius, C. (2007). The Interplay of Analogy-Making with Active Vision and Motor Control in Anticipatory Robots. In Butz, M. (Ed.) Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems II. Springer, in press.
  14. Johansson, B. and Balkenius, C. (2007). An Experimental Study of Anticipation in Simple Robot Navigation. In Butz, M. (Ed.) Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems II. Springer, in press.
  15. Johansson, B. and Balkenius, C. (2006). The benefits of anticipation: an experimental study. In Butz, M., Sigaud, O., Pezzulo, G., and Baldassarre, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of third workshop on anticipatory behavior in adaptive learning systems (ABiALS), Rome.
  16. Balkenius, C., and Johansson, B. (2006). A developmental approach to dynamic scene understanding. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (p. 165). Lund University Cognitive Studies, 128.
  17. Johnsson, M., and Balkenius, C. (2006). Haptic Perception with a Robotic Hand. In Honkela, T., Raiko, T., Kortela, J. and Valpola, H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2006), Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, 127-134.
  18. Johnsson, M., and Balkenius, C. (2006). A Robot Hand with T-MPSOM Neural Networks in a Model of the Human Haptic System. In Witkowski, M., Nehmzow, U., Melhuish, C., Moxey, E. and Ellery, A. (Eds.) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2006, Surrey University, Guildford, UK, 80-87.
  19. Johnsson, M., and Balkenius, C. (2006). Experiments with Artificial Haptic Perception in a Robotic Hand. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 17, 4, 377-385. [OpenURL].
  20. Johnsson, M., and Balkenius, C. (2006). LUCS Haptic Hand II. LUCS Minor, 9. [PDF]
  21. Björne, P., and Balkenius, C. (2005). A model of attentional impairments in autism: First steps toward a computational theory. Cognitive Systems Research, 6, 3, 193-204.
    [doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2004.11.003].
  22. Johnsson, M., Pallbo, R., and Balkenius, C. (2005). A Haptic System for the Lucs Haptic Hand I. In Mira, J., and Alvarez, J.R. (Eds.), Mechanisms, Symbols, and Models Underlying Cognition: First International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, Part I, 386-395. Springer-Verlag.
  23. Balkenius, C., and Johansson, B. (2005). Event Prediction and Object Motion Estimation in the Development of Visual Attention. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Nara, Japan.
  24. Johansson, B., and Balkenius, C. (2005). Robots with Anticipation and Attention. In Funk, P. , Rognvaldsson, T., and Xiong, N. (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Sweden (pp. 202-204). Västerås, Sweden: Mälardalen University.
  25. Johnsson, M., Pallbo, R., and Balkenius, C. (2005). Experiments with Haptic Perception in a Robotic Hand. In Funk, P. , Rognvaldsson, T., and Xiong, N. (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Sweden (pp. 81-86). Västerås, Sweden: Mälardalen University.
  26. Björne, P., and Balkenius, C. (2005). The Role for Context in Motor Development in Autism. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Nara, Japan.
  27. Björne, P., and Balkenius, C. (2005). Inhibition in Cognitive Development: Contextual Impairments in Autism. To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 187 Osaka, Japan.
  28. Johansson, B., and Balkenius, C. (2005). It's a Child's Game: Investigating Cognitive Development with Playing Robots. Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 164, Osaka, Japan.
  29. Björne, P., and Balkenius, C. (2004). Cognitive development in context: Learning to pay attention. In Proceedings of ICDL '04.
  30. Balkenius, C., Åström, K. and Eriksson, A. P. (2004). Learning in visual attention. In ICPR '04 workshop on learning for adaptable visual systems (LAVS).
  31. Gustafsson, M., and Balkenius, C. (2004). Using semantic web techniques for validation of cognitive models against neuroscientific data. In Proceedings of AILS '04. Lund: Dept. of Computer Science.
  32. Balkenius, C., and Winberg, S. (2004). Cognitive modeling with context sensitive reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of AILS '04. Lund: Dept. of Computer Science.
  33. Johnsson, M. (2004). Cortical Plasticity - A Model of Somatosensory Cortex. A study of cortical reorganization, after nerve injuries between the hand and the brain, with the aid of computational models. MSc thesis from the Dept. of Cognitive Science, Lund University.
  34. Balkenius, C., and Björne, P. (2004). First steps towards a computational theory of autism. In Proceedings of EpiRob '04.
  35. Balkenius, C., and Morén, J. (2003). From isolated components to cognitive systems. ERCIM News, April 2003, 16. [online]
  36. Balkenius, C., Johansson, A. J, and Balkenius, A. (2003). Color constancy in visual scene perception. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 98.
  37. Balkenius, C. (2003). Cognitive processes in contextual cueing. In Schmalhofer, F., Young, R. M., and Katz, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2003 (pp. 43-47). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  38. Morén, J. (2003). Emotion and Learning - A Computational Model of the Amygdala, Lund University Cognitive Studies, 93.