We are currently working on how the brain discovers space through the self and the body using the framework of sensorimotor contingencies and robots. For more info on the team https://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/research/groups-teams/humanoids/#research

I study the representation of space in autonomous moving robots through sensorimotor perception without any prior assumption on the robot configuration and perceived environment.The goal is to apply the theory of "sensorimotor dependencies"​ developed by Kevin O'Regan (1992, 2001) in a robotic environment with learning abilities. This theory is based on the principle that an agent should be able to learn its interaction with the world uniquely through the so-called sensorimotor signals, in a robotic context : signals from command and sensors, without knowledge on the environment and its kinematic structure.The theory and its mathematical formalization by Philipona (2003) rely on an intuition from Henri Poincaré (1895) for the estimation of the dimension of the geometrical space where a simulated agent can move and sense.Therefore this work should lead to the production of autonomous systems that can adapt to sparsely modeled environments as in spatial robotics, uneven ground but also human to robot interaction.Poincaré, H. (1895). L’espace et la géométrie. Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 631-646.O’Regan, J. K. (1992). Solving the “real mysteries of visual perception: the world as an outside memory. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 46(3):461-488.3O’Regan, J.K. and Noë, A. (2001). A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24:939-1031.Pillipona, D., O’Regan, J.K. and Nadal, J.P. (2003). Is There Something Out There? Inferring Space from Sensorimotor Dependencies. Neural Computation, 15:2029-2049.

Research on the maximum a posteriori estimation and Cramer-Rao's bound in Bayesian context.

Research In psychoacoustics under the direction of Catherine Guastavino and in collaboration with David Weigl.Investigating offset and beat salience in music perception context.Conception, setting and analysis of a music psychoacoustic experiment on beat offset judgement in the CIRMMT Labs.