This is an invitation to the next "UHH Informatik Kolloquium"
http://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/de/home/news/kolloquium/sose14.html
SPEAKER:
Professor Dr. Jan Peters
TU Darmstadt
http://www.ias.tu-darmstadt.de/Team/JanPeters
This talk will be held in English
DATE:
MONDAY, 07.07.2014, 17:15 s.t.
PLACE:
Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal, Informatikum, B-201
http://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/de/service/location
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TOPIC: Machine Learning of Motor Skills in Robotics:
From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation
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ABSTRACT:
Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have
been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and
cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goal is to create robots
that can learn tasks triggered by visual stimuli from higher level
instruction. However, learning techniques have yet to live up to this
promise as only few methods manage to scale to high-dimensional
manipulator or humanoid robots. In this talk, we investigate a general
framework suitable for learning motor skills in robotics including both
manipulation of static and dynamic objects that are perceived using
vision. The resulting approach relies on a representation of motor skills
by parameterized motor primitive policies acting as building blocks of
movement generation, and a learned task execution module that transforms
these movements
into motor commands. We discuss task-appropriate learning approaches for
imitation learning, model learning and reinforcement learning for robots
with many degrees of freedom that perceive the manipulated objects using
robot vision. Empirical evaluations on a several robot systems illustrate
the effectiveness and applicability to learning control on an
anthropomorphic robot arm. These robot motor skills range from basic
visuo-motor skills to playing robot table tennis against a human being and
manipulation of various objects.
BIO:
Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at
the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
and at the same time a senior research scientist and group leader at the
Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where he heads the
interdepartmental Robot Learning Group. Jan Peters has received the Dick
Volz Best 2007 US PhD Thesis Runner Up Award, the Robotics: Science &
Systems - Early Career Spotlight, the INNS Young Investigator Award, and
the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society's Early Career Award.
Jan Peters has studied Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical and
Control Engineering at TU Munich and FernUni Hagen in Germany, at the
National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Southern
California (USC). He has received four Master's degrees in these
disciplines as well as a Computer Science PhD from USC. Jan Peters has
performed research in Germany at DLR, TU Munich and the Max Planck
Institute for Biological Cybernetics (in addition to the institutions
above), in Japan at the Advanced Telecommunication Research Center (ATR),
at USC and at both NUS and Siemens Advanced Engineering in Singapore.
CONTACT:
Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg
Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
Phone: +49-(0)40-42883-2409
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ML/contents/people/luxburg/
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