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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
Tel: +43-1-5336112-17, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ofai.at
Prof. Michael Beetz, PhD
Department of Informatics, Computer Science
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
"Cognition-enabled Everyday Manipulation"
In recent years we have seen tremendous advances in the mechatronic,
sensing and computational infrastructure of robots, enabling them to
act faster, stronger and more accurately than humans do. Yet, when it
comes to accomplishing manipulation tasks in everyday settings, robots
often do not even reach the sophistication and performance of young
children. Housework is an activity domain where the superiority of the
human cognitive mechanisms and their role in competent activity
control is particularly evident.
In this talk I will present our ongoing research, in which we investigate
cognitive mechanisms that are to enable autonomous robots to produce flexible,
reliable and high-performance behavior for everyday manipulation activities.
The talk will concentrate on our framework for cognition-enabled control and
the naturalistic specification of manipulation actions and what it takes
to execute these specifications competently.
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Time: Thursday, 22nd September 2011, 3.00 p.m. sharp
Location: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence, OFAI
Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 1010 Wien.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl
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