Eric Aislan Antonelo

PhD researcher

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eric.antonelo [AT] UGent.be
+32 9 264 34 04 (phone)
+32 9 264 35 94 (fax)

Parallel Information Systems (PARIS) group
Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) department
Ghent University
Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 41
9000 Ghent
Belgium

I am investigating the use of Reservoir Computing (RC) in robotic applications, from autonomous robot modeling to detection of events and robot localization. I intend to investigate how RC can be used with reinforcement learning methods for solving complex problems in mobile robotics, and possibly any other difficult optimization problem (which require memory for holding information on past stimuli).

• Reservoir Computing for Robotic Applications

Journal papers

1. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen and Dirk Stroobandt Event detection and localization for small mobile robots using reservoir computing Neural Networks, Vol. 21(6), pp. 862-871 (2008)
2. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen and Jan Van Campenhout Generative Modeling of Autonomous Robots and their Environments using Reservoir Computing Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 26(3), pp. 233-249 (2007)

Conference publications

1. Tim Waegeman, Eric Antonelo, Francis wyffels and Benjamin Schrauwen Modular reservoir computing networks for imitation learning of multiple robot behaviors IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 8th, Proceedings, pp. 27-32 (2009)
2. Eric Antonelo and Benjamin Schrauwen Unsupervised learning in reservoir computing : modeling hippocampal place cells for small mobile robots LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Vol. 5768, pp. 747-756 (2009)
3. Eric Antonelo and Benjamin Schrauwen On different learning approaches with echo state networks for localization of small mobile robots Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, 9th, Proceedings, pp. (2009)
4. Eric Antonelo and Benjamin Schrauwen Towards autonomous self-localization of small mobile robots using reservoir computing and slow feature analysis IEEE International conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Conference digest, Vol. 2, pp. (2009)
5. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen and Dirk Stroobandt Modeling Multiple Autonomous Robot Behaviors and Behavior Switching with a Single Reservoir Computing Network Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 1843-1848 (2008)
6. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen and Dirk Stroobandt Mobile Robot Control in the Road Sign Problem using Reservoir Computing Networks Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 911-916 (2008)
7. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen and Dirk Stroobandt Imitation Learning of an Intelligent Navigation System for Mobile Robots using Reservoir Computing Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks (SBRN`2008), pp. 93-98 (2008)
8. Eric Antonelo, Xavier Dutoit, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Stroobandt, Hendrik Van Brussel and Marnix Nuttin A Step Towards Autonomy in Robotics via Reservoir Computing NIPS 2007 Workshop: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning, pp. (2007)
9. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen and Dirk Stroobandt Experiments with Reservoir Computing on the road sign problem Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks (CBRN), pp. digitaal (2007)
10. Eric Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Xavier Dutoit, Dirk Stroobandt and Marnix Nuttin Event detection and localization in mobile robot navigation using reservoir computing Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), pp. 660-669 (2007)
11. Eric Antonelo, Albert-Jan Baerveldt, Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson and Mauricio Figueiredo Modular Neural Network and Classical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation: Inhibiting Undesirable Behaviors Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1225-1232 (2006)
12. Eric Antonelo, Mauricio Figueiredo, Albert-Jan Baerlveldt and Rodrigo Calvo Intelligent autonomous navigation for mobile robots: spatial concept acquisition and object discrimination Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), pp. 553-557 (2005)
13. Rodrigo Calvo, Mauricio Figueiredo and Eric Antonelo Evolutionary fuzzy system for architecture control in a constructive neural network Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pp. (2005)
14. Eric Antonelo and Mauricio Figueiredo Autonomous intelligent systems applied to robot navigation: spatial concept acquisition and object discrimination Proceedings of the 2nd National Meeting of Intelligent Robotics (II ENRI) in the Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (in Portuguese), pp. (2004)
15. Eric Antonelo and Mauricio Figueiredo Intelligent autonomous systems endowed with associative memory in robot navigation Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC) (in Portuguese), pp. (2003)
16. Eric Antonelo and Mauricio Figueiredo Neural structures for modeling of biological declarative memory applied to robot autonomous navigation systems Proceedings of the 4th Forum of Informatics and Technology of Maringá (FITEM) (in Portuguese), pp. (2002)

Other publications

1. Eric Antonelo A Neural Reinforcement Learning Approach for Behavior Acquisition in Intelligent Autonomous Systems Master thesis, Halmstad University, pp. (2006)