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SUMMARY:Robot systems for urban and assisted living applications
DTSTART:20141114T161500
DTEND:20141114T171500
DTSTAMP:20260406T050652Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Ventura\, Assistant Professor at IST\, Lisbon\, Portug
 al\nThis talk will be focused on the use of robot systems in interaction w
 ith humans in two classes of applications. The first one is urban search a
 nd rescue scenarios\, where we have been addressing methods for improving 
 situation awareness of human operators of the robots. We have been investi
 gating immersive teleoperation interfaces that employ augmented reality te
 chniques merging 2D and 3D maps with real-time stereoscopic video streamin
 g. These interfaces further allow collaborative work by the use semantic a
 nnotations made by multiple operators. In the second part of the talk I wi
 ll address assisted living applications\, focusing on recent work on the d
 evelopment of mobile robot systems for domestic and hospital environments.
  I will focus on our recent efforts towards intelligent robot systems targ
 eting these environments and integrating autonomous navigation\, speech-ba
 sed dialogue\, and manipulation of household objects.\nBio: Rodrigo Ventur
 a received a PhD degree (2008)\, in ECE from Instituto Superior Técnico (
 IST)\, Lisbon\, Portugal. He is a (tenured) Assistant Professor at IST\, a
 nd a member of Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has several pu
 blications in international journals and conferences\, on the topics of fi
 eld and service robotics\, emotion-based agent architectures\, and humanoi
 d cognitive architectures. He has been lecturing courses on Artificial Int
 elligence and Robotics to MSc students at Instituto Superior Técnico. He 
 is PI of a national project on HRI in field robots\, and he is founding me
 mber of the Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architecture society. He parti
 cipated in several international and national projects in the areas of art
 ificial intelligence and robotics. His current research interests include 
 human-robot interaction in service and field robots.
LOCATION:GRA330 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GR%20A3%2030
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