[Intelligence Seminar] Special Intelligence/Robotics seminar FRIDAY July 12

[Manuela Veloso]

TITLE: Cognitive Control for Mobile Service Robots

SPEAKER: Nick Hawes, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~nah

WHERE: GHC 7101, 3-4pm, Friday, July 12
REFRESHMENTS will be served.
Appointments available for Friday - please contact host Manuela Veloso,
mmv at cs.cmu.edu


Cognitive Control for Mobile Service Robots

The technology underlying mobile robots has matured to the level
where basic operations in static, or controlled, environments can
almost be taken for granted. To make mobile robots useful as service
platforms (i.e. performing tasks with or for humans in everyday
environments), we now must develop approaches that exploit the
structure of human environments (both static and dynamic) in order
to create more intelligent, and therefore more useful, robots. With
this aim in mind, this talk will present recent work on the
application of a range of AI techniques to mobile robotics,
including probabilistic reasoning for object search, goal generation
and planning for exploration, qualitative reasoning about human
environments, and learning the best routes to take through populated
spaces.





-- 
Manuela M. Veloso
Herbert A. Simon Professor
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv


-- 
Manuela M. Veloso
Herbert A. Simon Professor
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv