Lab Cognitive Robotics (MA-INF 4304)

Prof. Dr. Behnke, Marius Beul, Dirk Holz

The lab will take place in a three-week block August 25th -- September 12th, 2014.

The first, organizational meeting will be on Wednesday, July 16th, 15:00 in room I.42, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144.

Cognitive robotics is an active research area at the border between artificial intelligence and robotics. 
It investigates and tries to implement in technical systems mental functions, which are associated with intelligence.
This covers the perception of the environment, action planning, and learning. In this lab course, the students will implement algorithms for the control of our cognitive robots. 

In this semester, the students will work on the tasks of the European Robotics Challenges.
These consist of three challenges, which are inspiered by industrial applications:

• Challenge 1: Reconfigurable Interactive Manufacturing Cell: Tasks
  
    
   
  
• Challenge 2: Shop Floor Logistics and Manipulation: Tasks  
   
      
   
• Challenge 3: Plant Servicing and Inspection: Tasks
   
   

- The students will work in small groups.

- The lab is a good preparation for writing a thesis in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group.

- Active participants will have the opportunity to join our EuRoC teams.

Prerequisites

- Good programming skills in C/C++ or some other object-oriented programming language.

- Knowledge in robotics, artificial intelligence, or machine learning is helpful.