Robot systems for urban and assisted living applications
Event details
| Date | 14.11.2014 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Rodrigo Ventura, Assistant Professor at IST, Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This talk will be focused on the use of robot systems in interaction with humans in two classes of applications. The first one is urban search and rescue scenarios, where we have been addressing methods for improving situation awareness of human operators of the robots. We have been investigating immersive teleoperation interfaces that employ augmented reality techniques merging 2D and 3D maps with real-time stereoscopic video streaming. These interfaces further allow collaborative work by the use semantic annotations made by multiple operators. In the second part of the talk I will address assisted living applications, focusing on recent work on the development of mobile robot systems for domestic and hospital environments. I will focus on our recent efforts towards intelligent robot systems targeting these environments and integrating autonomous navigation, speech-based dialogue, and manipulation of household objects.
Bio: Rodrigo Ventura received a PhD degree (2008), in ECE from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. He is a (tenured) Assistant Professor at IST, and a member of Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has several publications in international journals and conferences, on the topics of field and service robotics, emotion-based agent architectures, and humanoid cognitive architectures. He has been lecturing courses on Artificial Intelligence 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 member of the Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architecture society. He participated in several international and national projects in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics. His current research interests include human-robot interaction in service and field robots.
Bio: Rodrigo Ventura received a PhD degree (2008), in ECE from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. He is a (tenured) Assistant Professor at IST, and a member of Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has several publications in international journals and conferences, on the topics of field and service robotics, emotion-based agent architectures, and humanoid cognitive architectures. He has been lecturing courses on Artificial Intelligence 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 member of the Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architecture society. He participated in several international and national projects in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics. His current research interests include human-robot interaction in service and field robots.
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- Alcherio Martinoli
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- Inaki Navarro