Fakultätskolloquium am 16.02.2012 / Prof. Dillmann, Leiter Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Gäste,

Frau JunProf. Maren Bennewitz und ich möchten Sie ganz herzlich zum dritten Vortrag im Rahmen des Fakultätskolloquium im WS 2011/2012 einladen:

Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann
Leiter Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

"Observation of Human Activities – A Key-Technology for Robot Task Learning”

Datum:    Donnerstag, den 16. Februar 2012
Uhrzeit:   16.00 s.t. - 17.30 Uhr
Ort:          Technische Fakultät, Georges-Köhler-Allee 101, 79110 Freiburg
                 Gebäude 101
                 Raum 101 02 016/18 (2. OG)

Abstract
Humanoid robot systems are designed to interact with humans in terms of observation of human activities and conversation about the task to be done and how to do the task and finally how to execute it. In addition humanoids have to act goal-oriented but have also to be capable to react on disturbances or unexpected events e.g. a context change  in a competent manner. Such robot systems operate in dynamic human centered scenarios which require capabilities such as adaptivity, perception, categorisation, action and learning. Examples for such systems are humanoids that interact in a human centered environment and which cooperate with humans. The behaviour of such a robot is characterized by active observation processes, fusion of multimodal sensor data, perception, categorisation, interpretation and decision making of how to select appropriate actions and to initiate them in a superimposed control systems. Thereby learning and shaping of sensory and motoric abilities as well as the active observation and interpretation of situations and actions are of major interest.

The field of programming by demonstration has been evolved strongly as a response to the needs of generating flexible programs for humanhoid robots and is largely driven by attempts of modeling human behaviour and it´s mapping onto humanoid robots. It comprises a broad set of observation techniques processing large sets of data from high speed camera systems, laser, data-gloves and even exosceleton devices. Some systems operate with precise a-priori models other use statistical approaches to approximate human behaviour from observations. Observation is done to identify objects, motion and action in space and time, interaction with the environment and ist effects. From this observation usefull regularities, time histories, relational and situative structures and it´s interpretation in a given context can be derived. Some efficient systems have been developed which combine active sensing, computational learning techniques supported by multimodal dialogues.  

The status of the Humanoid Robot Project at KIT and its impact for service robots is outlined and the achieved results are discussed.

C.V.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann received his Ph. D. at the University of Karlsruhe in 1980. Since 1987 he has been Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Research Lab. Humanoids and Intelligence Systems  at KIT.  2002 he became director and president of the Research Center for Information Science (FZI), Karlsruhe. Since 2009 he is spokesman of the Institute of Anthropomatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technolog  and founder of the KIT – Focus Anthropomatics and Robotics.

His research interest is in the areas of humanoid robotics with special emphasis on intelligent, autonomous and interactive robot behaviour based on machine learning methods and programming by demonstration (PbD). Other research interests include machine vision for mobile systems, man-machine interaction, computer supported intervention in surgery and related simulation techniques.
Prof. Dillmann is author/co-author of more than 300 scientific publications and several books.

He is Coordinator of the German Collaborative Research Center ”Humanoid Robots”, SFB 588, Editor-in-Chief of  the journal ”Robotics and Autonomous Systems”, Elsevier, and Editor in Chief of the book series COSMOS, Springer.

Ich freue mich auf Ihr Kommen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Bernd Becker
Dekan der Technischen Fakultät