Behaviour Generation for Autonomous Agents

Prof. Bernhard Nebel

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Date and time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 21^st, November, 2008

Venue: 10.08.03 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 3)

There are a number of areas in robotics, such as localization, mapping, and exploration that are very well-researched. In fact,

meanwhile there exist a number of off-the-shelf solutions. In contrast, the area of generating behaviour in complex environmenst is

much less understood. I will present some solutions we have devised for a number of different applications such as a soccer

robots, an autonomus foosball table, rescue robots, and service robots. These will be illustrated with a number of video clips including one,

where the foosball world champion plays against our foosball robot.

Bio: Bernhard Nebel received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Saarland in 1989. In 1993 he became Associate Professor at the

University of Ulm. Since 1996 he has been Professor at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and head of the research group on

foundations of AI. His research interests are in knowledge representation, planning, and robotics. He is the author of more than

120 refereed scientific papers and author and editor of 10 books and conference proceedings. His research group has become notorious for

winning international scientific competitions, e.g., in robotic soccer, robotic rescue and action planning. Among other professional

services he has been program chair of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) in 2001 and co-chair of ICAPS in 2008. See

http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel/ for more details.

Organizer: Prof. Lin Padgham