Reasearch domains

The research activities in the project are grouped as follows:

• Planning: we will connect low-level manipulation skills to high level AI planning techniques. This will enable the robot to reason about how the overall task affects how it should manipulate a particular object, e.g. if the robot wants to pour liquid from a cup it should not grasp it from above.
• Learning: we will develop learning algorithms that can adapt grasping strategies so that they are more robust to changes, e.g. the robot should be able to successfully adapt its grasps for one bottle to another.
• Perception: we will develop methods for recognizing novel objects as instances of known categories and relating their parts to corresponding parts of known objects. Actions on known objects can hence be transferred to novel objects, e.g. having recognized a handle the robot could adapt an existing grasp for handles.