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Cognitive Robotics on the Factory Floor

Dr. Erez Karpas – MIT

Abstract:

Current manufacturing robots are typically preprogrammed to perform one fixed task efficiently. This requires a long, expensive, setup in order to integrate into an assembly line, and means making changes in the assembly process is difficult as well. Cognitive robots, which are endowed with the ability to reason, allow for faster setup through high level programming, and added flexibility in the assembly process. In this talk, I will present recent work on how cognitive robots can work with a human, responding to the human's actions intelligently, and on how they can deal with novel situations by coming up with a new course of action through replanning.

Bio:

Erez Karpas is a post-doctoral fellow at the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research interests include autonomous systems, automated planning, heuristic search, and machine learning. He received his Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2012, and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Ben-Gurion University.

ההרצאה תתקיים ביום שלישי 10/2/15, בשעה 14:00 בחדר 206, בנין וולפסון הנדסה, הפקולטה להנדסה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב