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Spring 2005 Colloquium Series
Rodney
A. Brooks
Human-Robot Interaction
Wednesday, May 18,
2005
Building 3 Auditorium - 3:30 PM
(Refreshments at 3:00 PM)
Dr. Rodney A. Brooks, will talk about Human-Robot Interaction.
Navigation is working well for robots and there are many applications
for robots as navigation machines. Future progress in robotics for unstructured
environments requires advances in four areas: object environments, and
intuitive person-robot interaction. While discussing all four issues
we will concentrate on person-robot interaction the most.
Rodney Brooks received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in pure mathematics from
the Flinders University of South Australia in 1974 and 1977 respectively,
and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981.
He was a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and at the
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology before joining the Computer Science faculty of Stanford in
1983. Since 1984 he has been on the faculty at MIT and is now the Fujitsu
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Department, and the Director of the Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Dr. Brooks is concerned with both the engineering of intelligent systems
to operate in unstructured environments, and with understanding human
intelligence. He has worked in almost all aspects of robotics and computer
vision for the last 30 years. His early work was in model-based computer
vision combining top down and bottom up approaches, and then in model-based
robotics, including kinematics, path planning, and reasoning about uncertainty.
He then started working on mobile robots and developed the subsumption
architecture, a biologically inspired approach to programming robots
for real-time performance in uncertain environments. This developed
into the behavior-based approach for mobile robots which has become
the dominant method for building the low level control systems of wheeled,
tracked, and legged mobile robots. This approach incorporates many different
sensing methodologies (including vision), distributed control systems,
and various actuation schemes. He also did early work on micro-machines
and holds patents on small piezo-electric motors, and millimeter sized
silicon robots. Over the past ten years, Dr. Brooks has extended the
behavior based approach to try to capture all of human intelligence
in research projects including humanoid robots.
Dr. Brooks has also done extensive work in the field of computer language
technology. He was heavily involved in the evolution of Common Lisp
and worked on the first proto implementation of Common Lisp (at the
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory) and then was the principal author of
the first pure Common Lisp compiler (at Lucid Inc). He is co-founder
and Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corporation, which provides both
military robots to the US, and has produced the first mass market home
robot.
Dr. Brooks is a Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He won the Computers and Thought Award at the 1991 IJCAI (International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). He has been the Cray Lecturer
at the University of Minnesota, the Mellon Lecturer at Dartmouth College,
the Forsythe Lecturer at Stanford University, and the Hyland Lecturer
at Hughes. He has been a visiting researcher at Cornell University,
the Free University of Brussels, NEC Research Laboratory in Princeton,
and the Electro Technical Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. He was co-founding
editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision and is a member
of the editorial boards of many journals.
IS&T Colloquium Committee Host: Cynthia Cheung,
Cynthia.Y.Cheung@nasa.gov
Sign language interpreter upon request: 301-286-8313
Request future announcements: kjeter@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov
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