This is the first official seminar that will be held in the new BrIAS seminar hall at the newly renovated USquare site.
Location:
BrIAS Seminar Hall
Building AB level 0
Bv General Jacques 210
1050 Ixelles
Access via Ave Couronne:
1. Dr. Stefan Gerth (Head of department, Fraunhofer iss, Germany)
Title: "Automation in X-ray based plant phenotyping - From Plant to data"
Root phenotyping is essential for understanding plant dynamics and improving crop traits. Recent advancements in Computed Tomography (CT) have revolutionized this field, allowing for non-destructive, three-dimensional imaging of root structures. This presentation highlights the transformative impact of CT on root phenotyping, emphasizing the importance of automation and sophisticated data processing techniques. We discuss how automation accelerates data acquisition and enhances repeatability, while advanced data processing enables the extraction of meaningful biological information from complex datasets. The interdisciplinary nature of this research, integrating expertise from plant science, engineering, computer science, and data analytics, is crucial for addressing the challenges of food security and environmental sustainability.
2. Prof. Fabrizio Dabbene, (Director or Research, CNR IEIIT, Italy)
Title: "Trustworthy and reliable AI - Scalable classifiers and conformal predictions"
The increasing employment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology invarious aspects of our lifes poses a critical question: can we trust AI?
In this talk, we briefly introduce the idea of trustworthy and reliable AI, and discuss its main aspects. In particular, we concentrate on the problem of
safety-critical assessment of machine learning (ML). The scope is to understand under which conditions autonomous operation may lead to hazards, in order to reduce to the minimum the risk of operating with detrimental effects to the human or the environment.
We focus on binary classification problems, and discuss techniques based on calibration. These methods allow to construct new provably safe classifiers starting from giben - possibly unsafe - ones.
2. Prof. AJung Moon, (Assistant Professor, McGill University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada.)
title: "Sustainable 'Relationship' with Interactive Robots"
Rosie, the robotic helper from the Jetsons, has long symbolized a future where robots can help us in various daily activities at home and work. With the rapid advancement of human-robot interaction (HRI) and AI, such a future with interactive service and home robots seems to be within our grasp. Findings from HRI and robot ethics today, however, paint a different picture than that of our rosy ideals. This talk will unpack some of these findings and illustrate how navigating thorny issues around human relationships with robots (ownership relationship, in particular) is crucial to addressing sustainable development and adoption of robotic solutions in our society.
3. Prof. Krzysztof Olejarczyk, (Professor, Casimir Pulaski University of Radom, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poland.)
Title: "Cycloidal Drive - Design , experimental research, applications"
The cycloidal drive studys were carried out on a specially designed test bench. The assumption that it is necessary to conduct a specific type of research on cycloidal drives determines the concept of building and equipping a research station enabling the acquisition of analog and digital signals.
The motivation and implementation of individual experimental studies of the cycloidal drive are presented and the obtained results are discussed. Research requiring disassembly of the gear and carrying out detailed studies of a cycloidal drive using modern laboratory equipment such as microscopes or 3D scanners with specialized software was also discussed.
Based on the analysis of the research results, the possibility of changing the technology of manufacturing individual details and the possibility of optimizing individual details were analyzed. Taking into account the conclusions formulated, the application possibilities of cycloidal drive are presented.
For the teams link, or in-person participation, registration is required. Coffee and tea will be served.
This Seminar will also be livestreamed on our Youtube channel @BrIAStalks