| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L20023/01 |
| Title: |
COGNITIVE ROBOTICS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Shanahan, Professor M |
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Unknown (Data Transfer) |
| Organisation: |
Queen Mary University of London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1997 |
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31 March 1998 |
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105,435
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The project aims to exploit recent advances in Common Sense Reasoning in order to close the gap that currently exists between the theory of Knowledge Representation and the practice of Robotics. This will lay the foundations for the development of general purpose, programmable robotic platforms which will be usable for a variety of industrial, office, and domestic tasks. All aspects of the work will be tested on real as well as simulated robots. A formalism for reasoning about space, shape, action and continuous change will form the basis of the project. This will combine an existing Event Calculus formalism with a framework for qualitative spatial reasoning. Using this formalism, theories can be constructed which describe a robot's interaction with its world. Given such a theory, sensor data assimilation can be considered as an abductive task, for which provably correct algorithms can be constructed. Initial experiments will involve a map-building task for a single robot. A logic programming approach to implementation will be adopted. The next stage of the project will develop logic-based control techniques which can exploit abductively constructed maps. The final stage of the project will involve extending these techniques for more than one robot.
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