Towards long-term robot autonomy integrating AI&Robotics: the STRANDS example
Matteo Luperto
DEIB PhD Student
DEIB - PT1 Room
October 13th, 2015
1.45 pm
Research Line:
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
DEIB PhD Student
DEIB - PT1 Room
October 13th, 2015
1.45 pm
Research Line:
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Sommario
This seminar is based on the courses attended at the II Lucia Winter School on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, held in Örebro (Sweden) in December 2014, and at the LAMoR Summer School on Long-term Autonomy for Mobile Robots, held in Lincoln (UK) by the STRANDS project in September 2015.
The presentation will provide an introduction to the relation between the field of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics were strongly connected in the early days of AI, but have since diverged. Despite this separation, many now feel that the two fields ought to be brought together towards the development of fully integrated intelligent robots. In particular, there is a growing consensus in the robotics community that the next quantum leap in robotics will come by incorporating capabilities which lay at the core of AI, like knowledge representation and reasoning, action planning, learning and adaptation, and human-robot interaction.
In the second part of the presentation will be discussed an example of integration of AI&Robotics, providing an overview of the results obtained by the STRANDS project. STRANDS has the goal of producing intelligent mobile robots that are able to run for months in dynamic human environments.
Within this context, permanent and temporary modification on the environment should be taken in account, as well multiple and repeated interactions within different domains. Longevity and behavioural robustness are necessary to make robots truly useful assistants in a wide range of domains.
The presentation will provide an introduction to the relation between the field of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics were strongly connected in the early days of AI, but have since diverged. Despite this separation, many now feel that the two fields ought to be brought together towards the development of fully integrated intelligent robots. In particular, there is a growing consensus in the robotics community that the next quantum leap in robotics will come by incorporating capabilities which lay at the core of AI, like knowledge representation and reasoning, action planning, learning and adaptation, and human-robot interaction.
In the second part of the presentation will be discussed an example of integration of AI&Robotics, providing an overview of the results obtained by the STRANDS project. STRANDS has the goal of producing intelligent mobile robots that are able to run for months in dynamic human environments.
Within this context, permanent and temporary modification on the environment should be taken in account, as well multiple and repeated interactions within different domains. Longevity and behavioural robustness are necessary to make robots truly useful assistants in a wide range of domains.