Welcome to Gentiane Venture's Laboratory

Recent news
Follow our activity on Facebook > 2012-02-02 Seminar announcement Kanako Miura from AIST-Humanoid Research group will give a talk on "HRP-4C: a humanoid with appearance similar to humans, and generating its motions", on Friday February 17th from 11:00 in Blg 9 room 505. More details. > 2012-01-22 Tianxiang Zhang has been selected as a finalist for the "15th Noko Student Idea Contest". > Best wishes for 2012! > 2011-12-09 Tianxiang Zhang will present our paper on "emotion recognition from gait" at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society on Saturday, December 17th, 11:00-13:00. > 2011-11-30 All the undergraduate students and K. Aoki are presenting their work at the IEEE Tokyo Young Researchers Workshop in Tsukuba, Wednesday, November 30th. > 2011-11-10 Ritta Baddoura from Montpellier Univ. has joined us. She is a visiting researcher for one month. Welcome to our lab! > 2011-11-07 Press Interview for the Nikkei journal has been published in the「日経産業新聞」2011年10月6日. It concerns our research on "biometrics from gait". Read the pdf here (in Japanse). > 2011-11-07 Seminar announcement Ritta Baddoura from Montpellier Univerity will give a talk on "Being familiar with the robot: emotional and mental expressions of familiarity in a human interacting with a robot", on Monday November 14th from 15:00 in Blg 9 room 505. More details. > 2011-11-01 Public Event From 11/11 to 11/13, we will participate in the 2011 "Kagiten". A good opportunity to get introduced to our research and meet with the students. See the poster pdf (in Japanese).. > 2011-10-20 Tianxiang Zhang paper submitted to Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society has been accepted. Congratulations!. > 2011-10-14 Press Mix et Remix the famous cartoonist for the Swiss journal L'Hebdo visited us in August. He made a cartoon of his visit published in "L'Hebdo: Numero special anniversaire" No 39. Read the cartoon in pdf here. > 2011-09-27 Presentation GV will give a talk the Workshop on Robotics for Neurology and Rehabilitation at IROS 2011 on Friday September 30th. > 2011-09-13 Seminar announcement Prof. Tomomichi Sugihara from Osaka Univerity will give a talk (in Japanese) on "Dynamics morphing toward robust and autonomous biped control", on Friday September 16th from 15:00 in Blg 9 room 505. More details. > 2011-09-08 Presentation GV has been invited to give a talk on "Understanding human behavior from motion: applications to neurology, rehabilitation, robotics" at the meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society on Thursday September 15th. > 2011-08-22 International session at RSJ 2011 "Robotics to Understand Human Motion and Human Motion Analysis to Control Robots" organized and chaired by GV on Wednesday September, 9th from 15:30 to 17:30, room Q （505）. Everyone is welcome to attend! > 2011-08-15 Presentation Tianxiang Zhang will present our paper on Individual Recognition from Gait at RSJ 2011, on Wednesday, September 7th 10:00am room N. > 2011-07-29Public Event GV Lab. is participating in the summer school for high school girls 2011. We organize a hands-on with NAO and the Wii balance board on "how do robots walk?". pictures > 2011-07-19 Seminar announcement Dr. Mitsuhiro Hayashibe from INRIA, Montpellier, France will give a talk (in Japanese) on "Human sensory motor system and rehabilitation robotics", on Friday July 22d from 9:45 in room L0016. More details. > 2011-06-24 Presentation Kengo Aoki paper submitted to IROS 2011 has been accepted for publication. Congratulations! Our paper presenting the results of our collaborative work for the Sakura project has been accepted for publication at IROS 2011. > 2011-06-08 Talk GV will give a talk at the Laboratoire CIAMS (Complexite, Innovation et Activites Motrices et Sportives), Paris University, France on June 20th. > 2011-06-06 GVLab on Facebook. for those who want to be kept updated join now! > 2011-06-06 GV organizes an international session on "Robotics to Understand Human Motion and Human Motion Analysis to Control Robots" at the next RSJ conference. The call for participation is now open. > 2011-05-20 Workshop Prof. Fraisse from LIRMM, Dr. Hayashibe from INRIA, Dr. Keller from Fatronik and GV organize a workshop on Robotics for Neurology and Rehabilitation at IROS 2011 on Friday September 30th. The call for participation is now open. > 2011-05-09 Presentation Kouta Enomoto and Yuta Kawashima papers have been accepted for publication at the IFToMM-Japan symposium. They will present their research work in Tokyo, on Saturday, July 16th. > 2011-04-11 Presentation Kengo Aoki and Yusuke Inoue will present their research work at ROBOMEC 2011, in Okayama, on Friday, May 27th and Saturday, May 28th. > 2011-04-11 Seminar announcement Dr. Yuka Ariki from AIST, Digital Human Research Center, Tokyo will give a talk on Acquisition of common expressions between human and robots to solve problems in imitation learning, on Monday April 25th from 15:00 in room 505 Blg 9. More details. > 2011-04-11 To celebrate the begining of the new year, a joint Tagawa Lab.-Venture Lab. BBQ will be held Tuesday April 12th from 13:00. pictures > 2011-04-04 Today is the beginning of the new term and the new year. Welcome to the 6 new students that have joined the lab!
Recent publications
> JNNS 2011 T. Zhang, G. Venture, Emotion Recognition from Walk Pattern, pp196-197 > IROS 2011 K. Aoki, G. Venture, Y. Tagawa, Dynamics identification of industrial robots using contact force for the IDCS control, pp4710-4715 M. Hayashibe, G. Venture, K. Ayusawa, Y. Nakamura, Muscle Strength and Mass Distribution Identification Toward Subject-Specific Musculoskeletal Modeling, pp3701-3707 > RSJ 2011 T. Zhang, G. Venture, 歩行パターンに基づいた人間識別-Individual recognition from gait, RSJ2011AC1N1-1 > Jc-IFToMM 2011 K. Enomoto, G. Venture, センサフュージョンを用いたマーカレスモーションキャプチャ, pp1-4 Y. Kawashima, G. Venture, N. Kawashima, 力学同定を用いた複数の接触点における外力計算, pp9-14 > IFToMM World congress 2011 K. Ayusawa, G. Venture, Y. Nakamura, Real-time Implementation of Physically Consistent Identification of Human Body Segments, A8_497 > Robomec 2011 Y. Inoue, Y. Tagawa, G. Venture, Stewart Platform のマルチボディダイナミクスによるモデル化とIDCS による運動制御 - Multibody Dynamics Modeling and the IDCS for Motion control of Stewart Platform K. Aoki, G. Venture, Y. Tagawa, 床反力計測に基づく力学同定を用いた産業用ロボットのIDCS制御 - IDCS control of industrial robots using inertial identification based on contact force sensor > ICRA 2011 K. Ayusawa, G. Venture, Y. Nakamura, Real-time Implementation of Physically Consistent Identification of Human Body Segments, pp 6282-6287