ACAT

Learning and Execution of Action Categories

Coordinatore	GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS    more  Organization address address: von Sieboldstr. 4 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Nadja Cognome: Daghbouche Email: send email Telefono: 49551399795 Fax: 4955140000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	4˙147˙047 €
EC contributo	3˙150˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2011-9
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-03-01   -   2016-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS	DE	coordinator	0.00
2	AALBORG UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: FREDRIK BAJERS VEJ city: AALBORG contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Tina Cognome: Thorbjørnsen Email: send email Telefono: +45 9940 8939 Fax: +45 9815 9757	DK (AALBORG)	participant	0.00
3	INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN  Organization address address: Jamova city: LJUBLJANA contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Jadran Cognome: Lenarcic Email: send email Telefono: +386 14773513 Fax: +386 14773906	SI (LJUBLJANA)	participant	0.00
4	SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: CAMPUSVEJ city: ODENSE M contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Vibeke Cognome: Nielsen Email: send email Telefono: +45 6550 3575 Fax: +45 6615 7697	DK (ODENSE M)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITAET BREMEN  Organization address address: Bibliothekstrasse city: BREMEN contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Michael Cognome: Lawo Email: send email Telefono: +49 42121864000 Fax: 4942120000000	DE (BREMEN)	participant	0.00
6	VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS  Organization address address: K. DONELAICIO G. 58 city: KAUNAS contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Daiva Cognome: Vitkute Adzgauskiene Email: send email Telefono: +370 37327900 Fax: 37037203858	LT (KAUNAS)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

ACAT focuses on the problem how artificial systems (robots) can understand and utilize information made for humans. For example, a statement like: 'Put the nut on the bolt and tighten', which one might find in any assembly instruction sheet, is easily understood by us, but not by any robot. Too much background information is missing: Which tool to use? How to hold the tool? How to operate it? And much more. To make this understandable for a machine, ACAT introduces the concept of an 'action category'. Action categories are extracted from large bodies of human sources (text, images) and will fill in the missing background information. An action category, thus, includes the general computer code to perform the action (e.g. by a robot hand). But, as actions are always situation dependent, it also includes all situation specific information (e.g. how to shape the hand, how to generate the correct pose relative to a manipulated object). This is called action-specific background information. Action categories are obtained by combining linguistic analysis with action-simulation and robot self-exploration. They are assembled in an action-specific knowledge base. The ACAT project will develop a system that uses this knowledge base to compile and execute plans as sequences of individual actions. The execution of these plans by a robot serves as a test-bed for the success of the stored action categories. Repeated execution, error analysis, and correction lead to a life-long update process of the action-category knowledge base. The ultimate purpose of ACAT is to equip the robot – on an ongoing basis – with abstract, functional knowledge, normally made for humans, about relations between actions and objects leading to a system which can act meaningfully. For testing, ACAT uses 'instruction sheets' (manuals), made for human workers, and translates these into a robot-executable format. This way the robot will be able to partially take over human tasks without time-consuming programming procedures improving the efficiency of industrial processes. Thus, similar to computer science, where the development of the first compilers had led to a major step forward, the main impact of this project is that ACAT develops a robot-compiler, which translates human understandable information into a robot-executable program.