Cognitive and Adaptive Robots

Cognitive and Adaptive Robots Contact: John-Jules Meyer This group studies the design of robots that function in a changing environment by using high-level cognitive abilities and/or adaptive behaviours. Students participate in the research by means of working in the RoboLab.
PEOPLE The members of the Robot group PUBLICATIONS Publications on cognitive and adaptive robots	Research topics within the group include: Cognitive robotics Robot soccer
Cognitive robotics Cognitive robotics is concerned with the design of robots that function in a changing, incompletely known and unpredictable environment by using high-level cognitive abilities. Cognitive robots are hardware versions of intelligent agents: they have knowledge, beliefs, preferences and goals, and they have informational as well as motivational attitudes, such as observing, communicating, revising beliefs, planning, and committing. Cognitive robotics involves the application of various AI disciplines, such as knowledge representation, automated reasoning, reasoning about actions, reasoning with incomplete or uncertain knowledge, learning, and planning. It also involves the use of agent programming languages for defining transitions between mental states.
Robot soccer We are also part of the Dutch AIBO team, composed by research groups from the DECIS Lab and the universities of Amsterdam, Delft, Twente and Utrecht. The main research goal is to investigate collaborative robot behaviour and to to compete in the Four-legged Robot League of RoboCup. Our group focuses on intelligent behaviour of the team of robots. This covers making the translation from a world model to a set of desirable actions, and communication between the robots. We also aim to enhance the movement techniques, making AIBOs move and kick faster and more efficiently. In the past our group also participated in the Dutch Robot soccer project, competing in the Middle Size League of the RoboCup.

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