Third-party funded projects
Information Integration in Predictive Processes: A Mechanistic Grounding of the Self
Funded by the DFG, 2021-2024
Second phase of the below-listet project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
PI: Nihat Ay
Learning Conversational Action Repair for Intelligent Robots
Funded by the DFG, since 2019
Project number 433323019
Applicants: Dr.-Ing. Manfred Eppe; Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter
The Sensorimotor Architecture of the Self: Theory of Information Integration in Embodied Systems
Funded by the DFG, 2018-2021
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
PI: Nihat Ay
Modeling a robot’s peripersonal space and body schema for adaptive learning and imitation (MoReSpace)
Funded by the DFG, since 2018
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
Applicants: Dr.-Ing. Manfred Eppe; Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter
Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Wilfried Kunde
An information-theoretic approach to autonomous learning of embodied agents
Funded by the DFG, 2015-2018
Second phase of the below-listed project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) Autonomous Learning (DFG, SPP 1527)
PI: Nihat Ay
Mathematics of Multilevel Anticipatory Complex Systems (MatheMACS)
Funded by the EU, 2012-2015
Collaborative Project of the European Union within the Seventh Framework Program
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An information theoretic approach to autonomous learning of embodied agents
Funded by the DFG, 2012-2014
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) Autonomous Learning (DFG, SPP 1527)
PIs: Nihat Ay and Eckehard Olbrich
Quantenstatistik: Entscheidungsprobleme und entropische Funktionale auf Zustandsräumen
Funded by the DFG, 2011-2013
Further information is available at the project page
and the DFG Project Page (German)
PI: Arleta Szkoła
Evolution of Networks: Modeling the complexity and robustness of evolving biochemical networks (Extension of previous VW Project)
Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, 2010-2013
Further information is available at the project page
Evolution of networks: robustness, complexity and adaptability
Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, 2007-2010
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Geometry and Complexity in Information Theory
Funded by the DFG, 2004-2008
PIs: Andreas Knauf and Nihat Ay