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The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group conducts research in Artificial Intelligence and its application to sensor-equipped, intelligent computer systems that are embedded in the physical world. Such computer systems are becoming increasingly important. Application domains that our group considers, range from intelligent, camera-equipped indoor environments that adapt to the habits of their occupants, to autonomous mobile robots that fulfill complex tasks in office environments, to computer systems that watch football games, analyze, and comment on them, to teams of autonomous robots playing robot soccer.

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13.02.08 CoTeSys Workshop on the Kitchen Demonstration Scenario
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04.06.07 PSSCR'07 organized by IAS@TUM and AI@SRI!...
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17.10.06 The CoTeSys Kick-off workshop will take place on November 16-17... read more

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In the context of these application domains our group investigates various aspects of perceiving, reasoning about, and executing complex and natural activities. Being capable of competently dealing with activities is an essential prerequisite in the realization of integrated intelligent systems. Intelligent systems must be able to recognize and understand the activities of the agents in their environments as well as to manage their own activities and produce high performance behavior for achieving them. To realize these capabilities, we study computational mechanisms and develop integrated systems that (1) can make use of plans for improved control of autonomous robots, (2) perceive, interpret, and analyze single and multi agent activities, (3) learn to perform complex physical activities competently, and (4) represent and reason about activities.

In the realization of such intelligent systems, we emphasize integrated system research. In integrated system research we focus on specific comprehensive tasks and aim at developing complete hardware and software systems that can solve these tasks by perceiving their environments and acting in them. The salient characteristics of integrated system research are that research questions are derived from the systems' tasks, sensing-, and action capabilities and that computational mechanisms are validated and empirically studied in the context of the complete systems.


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