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Panel - Why my Cognitive Architecture is on the Road to Nirvana!
(July 16, 17:30-18:30)
- Chad Jenkins - Brown University
- Guy Hoffman - MIT
- Stuart C. Shapiro - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- Michael Thielscher - Dresden University of Technology
Invited speaker: Rachid Alami/LAAS
(July 16, 08:45-09:45)
Title: COGNIRON, The Cognitive Robot Companion
Abstract:
COGNIRON is a collaborative research funded by the European
Commission in the framework of the "Beyond Robotics" workprogramme.
Its overall objectives of are to study the perceptual,
representational, reasoning and learning capabilities of embodied
robots in human centred environments. The project develops methods
and technologies for the construction of such cognitive robots able
to evolve and grow their capacities in close interaction with
humans in an open-ended fashion.
Expected results are basic methods, algorithms and architectures
and their integration and long-term experimentation and scientific
evaluation on embodied robotic systems in different settings
and situations.
In the focus of this research endeavour is the development of
a robot whose ultimate task is to serve humans as a companion
in their daily life. The robot is not only considered
as a ready-made device but as an artificial creature, which
improves its capabilities in a continuous process of acquiring
new knowledge and skills. Besides the necessary functions for sensing,
moving and acting, such a robot will exhibit the cognitive capacities
enabling it to focus its attention, to understand the spatial
and dynamic structure of its environment and to interact with it,
to exhibit a social behaviour and communicate with other agents
and with humans at the appropriate level of abstraction
according to context.
Short CV:
Rachid ALAMI is Senior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS. He received
an engineer diploma in computer science in 1978 from ENSEEIHT,
and a Ph.D in Robotics in 1983 from the University Paul Sabatier
(Toulouse, France). He contributed and took important
responsibilities in several national, European and international
research and/or collaborative projects (EUREKA, ESPRIT, IST). His
main research contributions fall in the fields of Robot
Architectures, Task and motion planning, manipulation, multi-robot
cooperation and more generally robot decisional autonomy. He has
also a substantial experience in robotics system integration
and transfer operations.
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