CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr.-Ing. Poramate Manoonpong
Personal Details
NamePoramate Manoonpong
Date and Place of Birth6 December, 1978, Nan, Thailand
NationalityThai
Marital StatusSingle
Office Address BernsteinCenter for Computational Neuroscience
Bunsenstr. 10
D-37073 Goettingen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 551-5176-502
Fax: +49 (0) 551-5176-449
Email/,
Brief Biography
P. Manoonpong was born in Nan, Thailand, in 1978.He received a B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineeringfrom King Mongkut’s University of TechnologyThonburi, Thailand, in 2000, a M.Sc. degree in mechatronicsfrom Fachhochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten,Germany, in 2002, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineeringand computer science from the Universityof Siegen, Germany, in 2006. As a Ph.D. student, heworked in the areas of robotics, mechatronic systems,biologically inspired walking machines, evolutionaryrobotics and artificial neural networks at Fraunhofer institute for AutonomousIntelligent Systems (AIS), Sankt Augustin, Germany. He is currently a researcherat BernsteinCenter for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Goettingen,
Germany. His research interests include neural locomotion control of walkingmachines, dynamics of recurrent neural networks, embodied cognitive systems, Biomechanics.
Education
2002-2006Ph.D.Thesis in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciencewith the Title “Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machines” under the supervision of
- Prof.Dr.-Ing. Hubert Roth from Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at the University of Siegen, Germany
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Frank Pasemann from the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous IntelligentSystems (AIS), Sankt Augustin, Germany
2000-2002 M.Sc. in Mechatronics at Fachhochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany
1996-2000B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering (Hons.) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
Professional Career
Since 2006Research associate at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), University of Goettingen and Max Planck Institute for Dynamics andSelf-Organization, Germany
2002-2005Research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute forAutonomous Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Dynamics Department, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Honors/Awards
2008Best Ph.D. thesis award in Engineering and Industrial Research category from the Office of the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)
Finalist of the Tzyh-Jong Tarn best paper award from IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 2008
2000 Second Class Honorin Mechanical Engineering(B.Eng.)at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
Scientific Activities
Since 2007Referee Boardof Frontiers in Neurorobotics (part of Frontiers in Neuroscience).
2006-2008 International Scientific Committee: International Conferenceon Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering 2008
Track Program Committee: 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory AutomationETFA07 (Track 9: Intelligent Robots and Systems) 2007
Reviewer for International Journals: Robotica, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Advances in Artificial Neural Systems, Biological Cybernetics, Journal of Control, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
Reviewer for International Conferences: The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009),IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics ROBIO2008, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS,International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence
Public Activities
2009Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06, mobile robot) at Inventors’ day, Impact Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, Thailand, 02-05.02.2009. Video available at:
2008Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok, Thailand, 03.10.2008. Video available at:
Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Radisson hotel sponsored by the commission on higher education CHE, Bangkok, Thailand, 29.09.2008.Video available at:
Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Great LakesScienceCenter,Cleveland, USA, 05.06.2008. Video available at:
Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at the robot zoo of the fourth International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 2008), Cleveland, USA, 01-04.06.2008
Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Techkriti'08, IIT Kanpur, India, 15.02.2008
2007Robot demonstration (Robot swarm, 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and RunBot) at Otto Bock Healthcare in Duderstadt, Germany, 13.07.2007
Robot demonstration (Robot swarm, 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and RunBot) at Tag der offenen Tür der Fakultät für Physik, University of Goettingen, Germany, 12.07.2007
Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and Robot swarm) at University of Goettingen (die Kinder-Uni 2007 programm), Germany, 23.05.2007. Video available at:
2006Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Rathaus Goettingen (Akademiewoche 2006 ), Goettingen, Germany, 29.09.2006. Video available at:
Robot demonstration (Rubot and 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Nacht der Informatik, University of Goettingen, Germany, 19.07.2006. Video available at:
2005Robot demonstration (4- and 6-legged walking machines) at the Robot Zoo of the Third International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines, Ilmenau, Germany, 25-30.09.2005.Video available at:
Robot demonstration on Targe der Robotik (Robitc day) at Technical University of Ilmenau, ZHS (Humboldtbau), Ilmenau, Germany, 24-25.09.2005
2004Robot demonstration at the exhibition of Intelligent Dynamics, Fraunhofer Institut for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 11.11.2004.
Robot demonstration at Wissenschaft nacht (scientific day), University of Bonn, Germany, 02.07.2004.
Other Skills/Interests
LanguagesThai (native),German (intermediate), English (fluent)
Computing MS Windows, LATEX, Linux
C/C++, Embedded VC++
Physical-Simulation-Development (ODE)
ResearchInterestsLocomotion control of walking machines, biomechanics, dynamics of recurrent neural networks, embodied cognitive systems, and learning robots
Hobbies Soccer, squash, table soccer, music, painting
Publications
BookManoonpong, P. (2007) Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machines: Towards Versatile Artificial Perception-Action Systems (Cognitive Technologies) (Hardcover), Springer-Verlag
JournalsManoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Woergoetter, F. (2008) Sensor-Driven Neural Control for Omnidirectional Locomotion and Versatile Reactive Behaviors of Walking Machines. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, doi:10.1016/j.robot.2007.07.004,Elsevier Science, Vol 56(3), pp 265-288.
Manoonpong P.; Pasemann F.; Woergoetter F. (2007) Reactive Neural Control for Phototaxis and Obstacle Avoidance Behavior of Walking Machines, International Journal of Mechanical Systems Science and Engineering, Volume 1, Number 3, pp. 172-177. ("selected paper on PWASET-2007 conference")
Manoonpong, P.; Geng, T.; Kulvicius, T.; Porr, B.; Woergoetter, F. (2007) Adaptive, Fast Walking in a Biped Robot under Neuronal Control and Learning. Public Library of Science Computational Biology (PLoS Comput Biol), 3(7), e134,doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030134
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Roth, H. (2007). Modular Reactive Neurocontrol for Biologically-Inspired Walking Machines.International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 301-331, dio: 10.1177/0278364906076263
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Roth, H. (2006). A Modular Neurocontroller for a Sensor-Driven Reactive Behavior of Biologically Inspired Walking Machines. International Scientific Journal of Computing, "Special Issue on ICNNAI-2006", vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 75-86
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Fischer, J.; Roth, H. (2005). Neural Processing of Auditory Signals and Modular Neural Control for Sound Tropism of Walking Machines. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (ARS), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 223–234
Conference papersManoonpong P., Woergoetter F., Pasemann, F. (2008) Neural Preprocessing of Auditory-Wind Sensory Signals and Modular Neural Control for Auditory- and Wind-Evoked Escape Responses of Walking Machines, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conferenceon Robotics and Biomimetics, Bangkok, Thailand, 21 - 26February 2009, pp. 786-793, (Finalist of the Tzyh-Jong Tarn best paper award)
Manoonpong P., Woergoetter, F. (2008) Neural Control and Learning for Versatile, Adaptive, Autonomous Behavior of Walking Machines, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE), IEEE Computer Society, Invited speaker paper, Phuket Island, Thailand, 20 - 22 December 2008,pp. 24-28
Renjewski D., Manoonpong P., Seyfarth A. and Woergoetter F. (2008) From biomechanical concepts towards fast and robust robots, In: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2008), Coimbra, Portugal, 08 - 10 September 2008, pp. 630-637
Manoonpong P., Woergoetter F. (2008) Neural Control for Locomotion ofWalking Machines, In: Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2008), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH-USA, June 1-6 2008, pp. 54-55
Manoonpong P., Woergoetter F. (2008) Using efference copy for external and self-generated sensory noise cancellation, In: Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2008), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH-USA, June 1-6 2008, pp. 227-228
Manoonpong P., Woergoetter F. (2008) Biologically-Inspired ReactiveWalking Machine AMOS-WD06, In: Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2008), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH-USA, June 1-6 2008, pp. 240-241
Manoonpong P., Roth H. (2008) Reactive neural control for autonomous robots: From simple wheeled robots to complex walking machines, In: Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI ’2008), Minsk, Belarus, May 27-30, 2008
Huelse, M.; Wischmann, S.; Manoonpong, P.; Twickel, A.; Pasemann, F. (2007). Dynamical Systems in the Sensorimotor Loop: On the Interrelation between Internal and External Mechanism of Evolved Robot Behavior. In: 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, M. Lungarella and R. Pfeifer (eds.), LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Vol. 4850, pp. 186-195
Manoonpong, P.; Geng, T.; Bernd Porr; Woergoetter, F. (2007). The RunBot Architecture for Adaptive, Fast, Dynamic Walking. In: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), SPECIAL SESSION: Live Demonstrations of Circuits & Systems, on CD-ROM and the IEEE Xplore system, New Orleans, USA, May 27-30, pp. 1181-1184
Manoonpong, P.; Geng, T.; Woergoetter, F. (2007). Neuronal Control and Learning for Adaptive, Fast Dynamic Walking of the Biped Robot "RunBot". In: Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (Göttingen Neurobiology Conference), Abstract on CD, 29 March – 1 April, Göttingen, Germany
Manoonpong, P.; Geng, T.; Woergoetter, F. (2006). Exploring the dynamic walking range of the biped robot "Runbot" with an active upper-body component. In: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2006), 4 – 6 December, Genova, Italy, 2006, pp. 418-424
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Roth, H. (2006). A Modular Neurocontroller for a Sensor-Driven Reactive Behavior ofBiologically Inspired Walking Machines. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI ’2006), the Brest State Technical University Press (ISBN 985-493-036-X), 31 May - 2 June, Brest, Belarus, pp. 70–77
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Fischer, J. (2005). Modular Neural Control for a Reactive Behavior of Walking Machines. In: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA 2005), ISBN: 0-7803-9355-4, HelsinkiUniversity of Technology, Finland, pp. 403–408
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F.; Fischer, J. (2004). Neural Processing of Auditory-Tactile Sensor Data to Perform Reactive Behavior of Walking Machines. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics (MechRob ’04), Achen, Germany, ISBN: 3-938153-50-X, vol. 1, pp. 189–194
Fischer, J.; Pasemann, F.; Manoonpong, P. (2004). Neuro-Controllers for Walking Machines - An Evolutionary Approach to Robust Behavior. In: M. Armada; P. Gonzalez de Santos (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR ’04), Springer-Verlag, pp. 97–102
BookletsManoonpong, P. (2008) Using Biological Inspiration to Develop Versatile, Adaptive, and Autonomous Walking Machines, Journal of Thai Higher Education Review, (Invited paper)
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F. (2005). Advanced Mobility Sensor Driven-Walking Device 02 (AMOS-WD02). In: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines, Robot data sheet, Ilmenau: ISLE, ISBN: 3-938843-03-9, p. R22
Manoonpong, P.; Pasemann, F. (2005). Advanced Mobility Sensor Driven-Walking Device 06 (AMOS-WD06). In: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines, Robot data sheet, Ilmenau: ISLE, ISBN: 3-938843-03-9, p. R23