Projects

We are partners in several projects and also manage a thematic programme for PASCAL2. In the past at MPI, we have also been part of PASCAL2 Pump Priming Project with Koby Crammer (Technion).

GeRT Project

The GeRT project is an EU STREP project. GeRT stands for “Generalizing Robot manipulation Tasks”. Its' goal is to enable a robot to autonomously generalize its manipulation skills from known objects to previously unmanipulated objects in order to achieve everyday manipulation tasks. To achieve this aim, GeRT employs a set of demonstration programs for the same abstract task with different objects and varying scene arrangements. These programs are coded by hand and executed on the robotic system. The results from these example programs form the base for generalizing the planning operators and for learning pre and post conditions of operations. We are part of WP3 and WP4 as well as leader for WP5.

CompLACS

The CompLACS project is also an EU STREP project which can be described as follows: Cognitive architectures capable of operating autonomously in complex environments will require a constant interaction with this environment (e.g. with multiple users, in the case of web agents) and a high degree of modularity (e.g. user profiling module interacting with text generation modules, or recommendation systems, for example). Understanding the behavior of complex adaptive systems, where multiple parts are both driven by data and co-adapting, is a key question for the design of real world intelligent cognitive systems, that is "Composing learning systems for Artificial Cognitive Systems" or CompLACS. The project aims to develop key enabling machine learning technologies necessary for building artificial cognitive systems as well as developing a principled method of breaking down cognitive system design into well-specified components that can be matched against specified sub-systems together with guarantees on the behaviour of the resulting composition.