{"id":1300,"date":"2018-05-08T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/?page_id=1300"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:13:46","slug":"intelligent-robots-and-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/intelligent-robots-and-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Robots and Systems (ISRg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/irsgroup.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\">Intelligent Robots and Systems (ISRg)<\/a>\u00a0approaches complex robotics engineering systems from a holistic standpoint, rather than focusing on their subsystems. These\u00a0contributions led to 8 PhD theses awarded in 2013-17(2 jointly awarded with EPFL, one within the MITPortugal\u00a0program).<\/p>\n<p>Cooperation (among agents\/robots) and collaboration (among robots\/humans) arise naturally as the group current major research\u00a0topic overall.\u00a0Our distinctive feature is to bring together people with a common background on systems theory, but different approaches to\u00a0intelligent systems, coming from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>artificial\u00a0intelligence: probabilistic planning, machine learning, social and cognitive systems and architectures;<\/li>\n<li>systems\u00a0and control: modeling, analysis and synthesis methods, discrete-event\u00a0systems and estimation theory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The IRSg research is driven by the use of formal approaches in challenging, real-life\u00a0problems and applications. Some of the\u00a0challenges came from scientific robot competitions, such as RoboCup or the European Robotics League, where the IRSg is a major\u00a0player, and won 1st prize awards (RoCKIn 2015).<\/p>\n<p>We plan to continue exploring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the application of our research to networked and collaborative robot systems in domestic and hospital environments;<\/li>\n<li>remote handling systems in inaccessible environments, and field robots (quadcopters, land robots), notably designing and developing since 1996 the large vehicles that will provide the automatic transport of contaminated materials in the ITERInternational Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. In 2016, we integrated an industrial consortium, led by Airbus Safran Launchers, that won the bid for a Call on this topic, launched by the European Union&#8217;s Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development Fusion Energy (F4E).<\/li>\n<li>novel theoretical results in supervision and modeling of asynchronous event-driven\u00a0POMDPs, information-reward\u00a0POMDPs,\u00a0scalable multi-robot\u00a0cooperative perception, and general models of diverse imaging sensors (e.g cameras, laser or acoustic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligent Robots and Systems (ISRg)\u00a0approaches complex robotics engineering systems from a holistic standpoint, rather than focusing on their subsystems. These\u00a0contributions led to 8 PhD theses awarded in 2013-17(2 jointly awarded<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link button\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/intelligent-robots-and-systems\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~larsys.daemon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}