A Software Infrastructure for Robotic Skill Learning and Cognition

Abstract:

The current trend shows that, everywhere in the world, research is aiming at making robots more interactive (with humans but also with other robots or ``cognitive agents'') and, at the same time, equip them with more mobile and redundant manipulation and process capabilities. One of the consequences is that none of the existing software infrastructures (in automation and industrial robotics, but also in academic research) is yet flexible and complete enough to support the wide variety of requirements: functional, configurability, multi-vendor, interconnected to knowledge bases, etc. This presentation gives an overview of ongoing work in this  direction, the major challenges, and the expected trends.