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Speakers

Jochen Steil, Sebastian Wrede and Johannes Wienke

Content

Creating intelligent robots nowadays implies the integration of many different skills, e.g., ranging from complex motion generation utilizing large numbers of available degrees of freedom via fusion of multi-modal data for stabilized perception with anytime guarantees to the ability to design human-robot interaction strategies for natural dialog with humans.

This hands-on course will introduce students to three current ways of approaching these functions, a) whole-body motion control, b) the concept of a spatial-temporal working memory for representation and fusion of multi-modal data and c) a programming environment for the design of high-level human-robot interaction strategies.

In order to test these models, we will use the humanoid robot NAO created by French company Aldebaran Robotics. NAO is a an autonomous, programmable and medium-sized (height: 58cm) humanoid robot featuring 25 degrees of freedom. This platform is actively used in the CoR-Lab at Bielefeld University in research projects on human-robot interaction (cf. HUMAVIPS, SoziRob) and for education programmes, e.g. in the teutolab-robotik courses.

Number of participants is limited to 20!

Disciplines

computer science, robotics, human-robot interaction

References

• Task-oriented whole body motion for humanoid robots, Gienger, M.;   Janssen, H.;   Goerick, C.;  Honda Res. Inst. Eur. GmbH, 5th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005.
• The sensory ego-sphere: a mediating interface between sensors and cognition Richard Alan Peters II, Kimberly A. Hambuchen, Robert E. Bodenheimer, Autonomous Robots, 2009.
• Choregraphe: a graphical tool for humanoid robot programming, Pot, E.;   Monceaux, J.;   Gelin, R.;   Maisonnier, B.;  Aldebaran Robotics, Paris, France, 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009.

CV

Dr. Sebastian Wrede is head of the CoR-Lab research group on Cognitive Systems Engineering at Bielefeld University. S. Wrede received his PhD in Computer Science from Bielefeld University in 2008. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal on Software Engineering in Robotics (JOSER), of the IEEE (RAS TC-SOFT), and the euCogII NoE. He was researcher within the EU IST projects VAMPIRE and COGNIRON with responsibilities in systems engineering and is principle investigator in the newly approved EU-Projects AMARSi and HUMAVIPS.  Here, he focuses on the development of architectures for integration of multi-modal perception, learning and interaction functions in cognitive robots.

Johannes Wienke studied Cognitive Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Bielefeld University. He received his Bachelor of Science in 2008 and the Master of Science in 2010. The title of his Master's thesis is "A Spatiotemporal Working Memory for Humanoid Robots". Subsequently, he joined the CoR-Lab and the Applied Informatics Group and is associated with the European FP7 project HUMAVIPS. Inside the HUMAVIPS project, Johannes Wienke researches on the ideas of memory architectures with a focus on working memories. The research includes the functional benefits of appropriate memory models for robotic tasks and the application of memories for the system integration.

 Jochen Steil has been managing director of the Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics at Bielefeld University since 2007 and is adjunct professor for neuroinformatics at the Faculty of Technology. He heads a research group in "Cognitive Robotics and Learning" that works at  the border of machine and neural learning, cognition and human-robot interaction with the ultimate goal to enable interactive learning in human-machine cooperation.  JS is member of the steering board of the Bielefeld Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology and coordinator of the EU FP7-IP Projektes AMARSi: Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills.