RACE

Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG    more  Organization address address: Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, Haus A city: Hamburg postcode: 22527 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tim Cognome: Scharfenberg Email: send email Telefono: +49 40 42883 2203 Fax: +49 40 42883 2206
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	3˙959˙142 €
EC contributo	2˙997˙298 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2011-7
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-12-01   -   2014-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG  Organization address address: Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, Haus A city: Hamburg postcode: 22527 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tim Cognome: Scharfenberg Email: send email Telefono: +49 40 42883 2203 Fax: +49 40 42883 2206	DE (Hamburg)	coordinator	0.00
2	HAMBURGER INFORMATIK TECHNOLOGIE-CENTER HITEC EV  Organization address address: VOGT KOLLN STRASSE city: HAMBURG postcode: 22527 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Lothar Cognome: Hotz Email: send email Telefono: 4940430000000 Fax: 4940430000000	DE (HAMBURG)	participant	0.00
3	OREBRO UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: FAKULTETSGATAN city: OEREBRO postcode: 70182 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Silvia Cognome: Coradeschi Email: send email Telefono: +46 19 303298 Fax: +46 19 303463	SE (OEREBRO)	participant	0.00
4	UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO  Organization address address: CAMPO UNIVERSITARIO DE SANTIAGO city: AVEIRO postcode: 3810-193 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Fernando Cognome: Ferreira Batista Email: send email Telefono: +351 234 370200	PT (AVEIRO)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITAET OSNABRUECK  Organization address address: NEUER GRABEN/SCHLOSS city: OSNABRUECK postcode: 49069 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Renate Cognome: Sokolowski Email: send email Telefono: 495420000000 Fax: 495420000000	DE (OSNABRUECK)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS  Organization address address: Woodhouse Lane city: LEEDS postcode: LS2 9JT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Hamilton Email: send email Telefono: +44 113 343 4090 Fax: +44 113 343 4058	UK (LEEDS)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The overall aim of this project is to develop an artificial cognitive system, embodied by a service robot, able to build a high-level understanding of the world it inhabits by storing and exploiting appropriate memories of its experiences. Experiences will be recorded internally at multiple levels: high-level descriptions in terms of goals, tasks and behaviours, connected to constituting subtasks, and finally to sensory and actuator skills at the lowest level. In this way, experiences provide a detailed account of how the robot has achieved past goals or how it has failed, and what sensory events have accompanied the activities.nnRobot competence is obtained by abstracting and generalising from experiences, extending task planning and execution beyond preconceived situations. Activities successfully carried out by the robot for specific objects at specific locations may be generalised to activity concepts applicable to a larger variety of objects at variable locations. Conceptualisations may also result in commonsense insights, e.g. about object behaviour on tilted surfaces.nnnThe project aims to produce the following key results:n(i) tRobots capable of storing experiences in their memory in terms of multi-level representations connecting actuator and sensory experiences with meaningful high-level structures,n(ii)tMethods for learning and generalising from experiences obtained from behaviour in realistically scaled real-world environments,n(iii)tRobots demonstrating superior robustness and effectiveness in new situations and unknown environments using experience-based planning and behaviour adaptation.nnnTo achieve these ambitious goals, a consortium has been formed of research groups with long-standing expertise in high-level cognitive models, planning, learning, spatio-temporal knowledge representation, and robot sensing, navigation, and grasping. The consortium will establish a common conceptual framework for representing robot experiences, planning and learning. Results will be integrated and evaluated in an operational mobile platform with grasping facilities. We will demonstrate how a robot can evolve its understanding of the world as a result of novel experiences; and show how such understanding allows a robot to better cope with new situations and perform at a level of robustness and effectiveness not previously achievable.