Dear All

* Apologies for cross posting*

The Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) is pleased to announce the talk of Dr. Rachid Alami who is a research director and team leader at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France on Wednesday, February 9th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (London time) over Zoom.

>> Events: The CRNS talk series will cover a wide range of topics including social and cognitive robotics, computational neuroscience, computational linguistics, cognitive vision, machine learning and AI, and applications to autism. More details are available here:

 https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/robotics-neural-systems/whats-on

>> Link for the next event (No Registration is Required): 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://plymouth.zoom.us/j/98559430652?pwd=aDBpNWtZd3FZKzNVQ0FMbndxWjdWdz09&from=addon

>> Title of the talk:  Models and Decisional issues for Human-Robot Joint Action 

Abstract:

This talk will address some key decisional issues that are necessary for a cognitive and interactive robot which shares space and tasks with humans. We adopt a constructive approach based on the identification and the effective implementation of individual and collaborative skills. The system is comprehensive since it aims at dealing with a complete set of abilities articulated so that the robot controller is effectively able to conduct in a flexible and fluent manner a human-robot joint action seen as a collaborative problem solving and task achievement. These abilities include geometric reasoning and situation assessment based essentially on perspective-taking and affordances, management and exploitation of each agent (human and robot) knowledge in a separate cognitive model, human-aware task planning and interleaved execution of shared plans. We will also discuss the key issues linked to the pertinence and the acceptability by the human of the robot behaviour, and how this influence qualitatively the robot decisional, planning, control and communication processes.



>> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, 

Regards

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Dr. Amir Aly

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)

School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics 

Room B332, Portland Square, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA

University of Plymouth, UK