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SUMMARY:Research Issues on Interactive Robots at Home and Hospitals
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DESCRIPTION:Pedro U. Lima\nThe considerable growth of research and develop
 ment on service robots in recent years has led to an increasingly fine-gra
 ined resolution of this application area\, splitting it into more specific
  domains. Among those are robot systems that operate at home and hospitals
 \, helping humans with their daily chores. Those systems must be interacti
 ve\, so as to make them easier to use\, and social\, to improve their acce
 ptability. Such requirements raise several interesting research issues\, i
 ncluding human-aware and multimodal navigation\, speech and natural langua
 ge understanding\, vision-based mobile grasping and manipulation\, object 
 recognition and semantic mapping\, reasoning under uncertain knowledge\, s
 equential decision-making under uncertainty\, as well as design and execut
 ion of socially acceptable behaviours.\nIn this talk I will describe diffe
 rent robot systems we have been developing that integrate many of these su
 bsystems\, describing the involved research challenges and demonstrating t
 hem at work in realistic scenarios\, including robot competitions.\n\n\nPe
 dro U. Lima received the Licenciatura (5 years) and M.Sc degrees in Electr
 ical and Computer Engineering from IST in 1984 and 1989\, respectively\, a
 nd the Ph.D. (1994) in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytech
 nic Institute\, NY\, USA\, where he was also a researcher in the CIRSSE NA
 SA Center. Currently\, he is a Full Professor at IST\, Universidade de Lis
 boa\, where he coordinates the MSc Program on Electrical and Computer Engi
 neering (the largest MSc Program at IST) and a researcher of the Institute
  for Systems and Robotics\, where he is the Coordinator of the Intelligent
  Robots and Systems group and Deputy President for Scientific Matters.\nHi
 s research interests lie in the areas of formation control\, cooperative p
 erception\, discrete event models of robot tasks and planning under uncert
 ainty\, with applications to multi-robot and networked robot systems. He a
 s advised successfully 16 PhD students (including 4 under the IST/EPFL Joi
 nt Doctoral Initiative) and was the co-advisor of another 2.\nPedro has be
 en the PI of several European and national research projects at ISR/IST an
 d he has been very active in robot competitions. He is a Trustee of the Ro
 boCup Federation\, was the General Chair of RoboCup2004\, held in Lisbon a
 nd the Coordinator of the FP7 Coordination Action RoCKIn. He currently ser
 ves as Coordinator of Indoor competitions of the European Robotics League\
 , and as member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Mohamed Bin Zay
 ed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC).
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