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2019-10-10 | IIS guest Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems,
Tübingen, gives an invited colloquium Control What You Can – Intrinsically Motivated
Hierarchical RL at IIS Colloquium. [Abstract]I will present present a hierarchical reinforcement learning agent that is intrinsically motivated to learn how to control its observation space in the fastest possible manner by optimizing learning progress. The agent mimicks to some extend the development process how a baby learns. Our agent learns what can be controlled, how to allocate time and attention, and the relations between objects in the environment. In a nutshell, our work combines several task-level planning ideas (e.g., backtracking search on task graph, probabilistic road-maps, allocation of search efforts, etc.), in the form of structured prior, with deep RL control and relational reasoning to learn from scratch. |
2019-10-10 | IIS guest Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems,
Tübingen, gives an invited colloquium Self-Organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robot
Development at IFI Lunchtime Seminar. [Abstract]I am studying the question how robots can autonomously develop skills. Considering children, it seems natural that they have their own agenda. They explore their environment in a playful way, without the necessity for somebody to tell them what to do next. With robots the situation is different. There are many methods to let robots learn to do something, but it is always about learning to do a specific task from a supervision signal. Unfortunately, these methods do not scale well to systems with many degrees of freedom, except a good prestructuring is available. The hypothesis is that if the robots first learn to use their bodies and interact with the environment in a playful way they can acquire many small skills with which they can later solve complicated tasks much quicker. In the talk I will present my steps into this direction. Starting from some general information theoretic consideration we provide robots with an own drive to do something and explore their behavioral capabilities. Technically, this is achieved by considering the sensorimotor loop as a dynamical system, whose parameters are adapted online according to a gradient ascent on an approximated information quantity. I'll show examples of simulated and real robots behaving in a self-determined way and present future directions. |
2019-07-17 | Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk From Intuitive Skill Transfer to Large-Scale Robotic Knowledge Bases at DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck. |
2019-07-15 | David Peer contributes a talk Vector Routing in Capsule Networks at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. |
2019-07-15 | Sayantan Auddy contributes a talk Progress, Compress and Expand - A framework for lifelong learning of robotics tasks at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. |
2019-07-15 | Justus Piater contributes a talk Towards Open-Ended Robot Learning at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. |
2019-07-15 | Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk Learning Structured Robotic Tasks via Human Imitation at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. |
2019-07-12 | Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: Sport und Roboter gehen Hand in Hand (in Liechtensteiner Vaterland). |
2019-07-04 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Introduction to Prototyping autonomous Robots using the Robot Operating System (ROS) at Institut für Informatik, Universität Innsbruck. |
2019-06-27 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Selbst lernende Roboter der Zukunft at GMAR Robotics Talks Reloaded, Vienna. |
2019-06-27 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik - Ein Überblick und Reality Check at Campustag NMS Götzis, Institut für Informatik, Universität Innsbruck. |
2019-06-13 | Simon Haller gives an invited talk Coding Literacy – Konzepte und Anwendungen in der Schule und im Alltag at Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische Herausforderung, Universität Innsbruck. |
2019-06-13 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen Gesellschaft at Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische Herausforderung, Universität Innsbruck. |
2019-05-24 | Philipp Zech and Erwan Renaudo co-organize the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics . |
2019-05-09 | Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk Action representations in robotics: A taxonomy and systematic classification at IFI Lunchtime Seminar, Universität Innsbruck. |
2019-05-02 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Digitalization: Promises and Challenges at Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung, Universität Innsbruck. |
2019-04-26 – 2019-04-27 | Birgit Juen, Cornelia Vidovic, Manuela Resch, Justus Piater, and Simon Haller co-organize the RoboCup Junior Austrian Open 2019. |
2019-04-26 | Justus Piater appears in the media: TV interview on educational and societal aspects of robot technology by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German). |
2019-03-28 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Coding und Robotik - Makerspaces mit Einplatinencomputern at eFuture-Day, Grillhof Vill. |
2019-03-26 | Justus Piater contributes a talk Selbst lernende Roboter der Zukunft at GMAR Robotics Talk: Robotik in Fertigung, Montage und Forschung, INNIO Jenbacher. |
2019-03-26 | Justus Piater co-organizes the GMAR Robotics Talk: Robotik in Fertigung, Montage und Forschung. |
2019-02-20 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Künstliche Intelligenz in der Robotik at Smart City Finale 2019, HTL Dornbirn. |
2019-01-10 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk High-Level, Skill-Based Robot Programming Using Autonomous Playing and Autonomous Testing at Taste Digitalization – CAMPUS:digi:TOUR (4), ICT, Universität Innsbruck. |
2018-10-05 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Perception of Abstract Concepts at Unconventional Sensing and Processing for Robotic Visual Perception, Madrid, Spain. |
2018-09-21 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Concept Learning For Robot Intelligence at Conference
on Quantum Machine Learning Plus, Innsbruck, Austria. [Abstract]Current robot learning, and machine learning in general, requires carefully-engineered setups (environments, objective functions, training data, etc.) for learning to succeed. Perception and action spaces are specially crafted to meet the requirements of the learning objective, which is specified in advance. How can we construct robot learning systems that can learn in an open-ended fashion, acquire skills not foreseen by its designers, and scale up to virtually unlimited levels of complexity? I argue that a key to achieving this lies in the robot's ability to learn abstract concepts that can be reused as a basis for future learning, both in autonomous exploration and for teaching by humans. |
2018-07-17 | Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein . |
2018-07-03 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen? at Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck. |
2018-06-30 | Philipp Zech, Barry Ridge, and Emre Ugur co-organize the 1st International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics. |
2018-06-30 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Objects, Parts, Functions, Affordances, Actions, and Tasks at 1st
International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in
Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [Abstract]Human-made objects are constructed with functional parts. These are closely related to affordances; e.g., a handle is a part whose function is to be grasped and that affords grasping. It is these affordances that robots need to detect to perform tasks flexibly using unknown objects. Since affordances are often associated with parts, it makes sense for the segmentation of unknown objects into parts for affordance detection to be driven by known affordances. Then, the suitability of an object for a given task is often characterized by the combination of the actions its various parts afford. For example, to drive a nail into the wall you would like an object that possesses a part that affords pounding and another that affords grasping. I will discuss methods that allow robots to learn to segment objects in terms of their affordances, and to learn the suitability of objects for specific tasks as a function of their combination of affordances. |
2018-06-12 | Justus Piater, Simon Haller, and Olaf Köhler appear in the media: Music Globe und Cubeat . |
2018-06-12 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Robotics im Klassenzimmer at InDay Teachers 2018, Universität Innsbruck. |
2018-04-24 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Intelligente Roboter – Freund, Feind oder Hirngespinst? at Popular science talk within the WissensDurst series, Innsbruck, Austria. |
2018-04-11 | Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on AI – Wird der Mensch ersetzbar?, organized by the Faculty of Law and the European Law Students’ Association Austria in Innsbruck, Austria. |
2018-04-10 | Philipp Zech, Justus Piater, and Cornelia Vidovic appear in the media: Roboter bauen? Ist ja kinderleicht . |
2018-04-05 | Justus Piater contributes a talk High-Level, Skill-Based Robot Programming Using Autonomous Playing and Autonomous Testing at RSS Area Chair Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. |
2018-03-23 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Was sind Roboter? Wie verstehen Roboter? Wie baut man einen einfachen Roboter? at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck. |
2018-02-09 | Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz teach a tutorial Digitale Selbstverteidigung: Security und Privacy im Internet at Safer Internet Tag, Jugenzentrum Tivoli. |
2017-12-13 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Build your own Mini Robot at AK Informatiklehrer, Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-12-01 | Justus Piater appears in the media: Frage der Tradition. Interview about Open Access publishing by Zukunft Forschung, the science and research magazine of the University of Innsbruck. |
2017-11-24 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Scale Up Machine Learning, And Cognition Will Emerge. Will It? at EUCognition Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland. |
2017-11-15 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Digitale Kompetenzen entwickeln mit Micro:Bits, Calliope Mini und Co at Programm EduMediaLab 2017, Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-11-09 | Simon Haller and Philipp Zech teach a tutorial Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen? at VWA- und Diplomarbeitentag, Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-10-05 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Open-Ended Robot Learning: First Steps and Next Challenges at The Third International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning (IMOL 2017), Rome, Italy. |
2017-09-24 | Justus Piater co-organizes the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Human in-the-loop robotic manipulation: on the influence of the human role. |
2017-09-15 | Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on Die Maschine denkt – die Maschine lenkt: Wie gefährlich ist Künstliche Intelligenz? in Graz, Austria. |
2017-08-28 | Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms at Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2017 (Programm), Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-08-25 | Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial Ö1 Children’s University Alpbach – Science and Technology for Kids: Workshop for the construction of hydraulic robot arms at European Forum Alpbach 2017 / Technology Symposium, Forum Alpbach. |
2017-07-27 | Justus Piater contributes a talk Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen at Sommertechnikum MINT, Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-07-19 | Justus Piater teaches a tutorial Learning to Grasp Using More or Less Vision at Summer School on Soft Manipulation, Lake Chiemsee, Germany. |
2017-06-09 | Simon Haller, Erwan Renaudo, and Philipp Zech present a show 1. Tiroler Pop-, Rock- und Tanz-Märchen für Erwachsene - "König Laurins Rosengarten" - Open Air at Tiroler Märchenfestival, Vögelsberg. |
2017-05-23 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial A quick glance at BBC Micro:Bit and Calliope Mini at “inday teachers”, Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-05-15 | Justus Piater contributes a talk Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding at Lorentz Workshop on Perspectives on Developmental Robotics, Leiden, Netherlands. |
2017-04-21 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Maschinelles Lernen – Eine Einführung mit Blick auf Digitale Geisteswissenschaften at Workshop über Digitale Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Innsbruck. |
2017-03-23 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Progress in Robot Learning – Is Modeling Crucial for Success? at Systems Engineering - Progress in Robot Modeling - Why Modeling is Crucial for Success, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
2017-03-17 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Programming the BBC Micro:Bit at Slides and Code, AGI, Innsbruck, Angerzellgasse 15 . |
2017-02-05 | Simon Haller appears in the media: Die liebste Himbeere der Bastler. TT Magazin Interview.. |
2016-12-09 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk From Machine Learning to Agency at EUCognition Meeting, Vienna, Austria. |
2016-11-26 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Roboter für Menschen – Menschen für Roboter at Uni im Dorf 2016, Ausservillgraten. |
2016-11-26 | Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms at Uni im Dorf 2016, Ausservillgraten. |
2016-11-08 | Simon Haller teaches a tutorial Prototyping (autonomous) Robots using Python and ROS at Slides and Code, Innsbruck, Adamgasse 22. |
2016-11-06 | Senka Krivic appears in the media: Webportal article (ITgirls.ba) following interview (in Bosnian). |
2016-10-14 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Bootstrapping Complex Skills by Building on Experience at Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities, at IROS, Daejeon, Korea. |
2016-10-04 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk From Machine Learning to Agency at NII Shonan Meeting on Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots, Shonan Village Center, Japan. |
2016-09-26 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk From Machine Learning to Agency at “Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises“, Gottingen, Germany. |
2016-09-22 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk From Machine Learning to Agency at Conference on Agency and (Quantum) Physics, Konstanz, Germany. |
2016-08-12 | Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial Das Innenleben eines Computers at Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2016 (Programm), Universität Innsbruck. |
2016-08-03 | Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial Das Innenleben eines Computers at Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2016 (Programm), University of Innsbruck. |
2016-05-01 | Justus Piater appears in the media: Wie Robin gelernt hat, einen Turm zu bauen. Newspaper article (Der Standard) following interview and demonstration. |
2016-05-01 | Justus Piater appears in the media: Wie Roboter die Zukunft der Arbeit verändern.. |
2016-05-01 | Simon Haller appears in the media: Lebensretter und Rampensäue, 6020 Interview.. |
2016-04-21 | Justus Piater, Emre Ugur, and Simon Hangl appear in the media: TV report on child-like robot learning by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German). |
2016-04-21 | Justus Piater and Emre Ugur appear in the media: Web report on child-like robot learning by ORF (in German). |
2016-04-21 | Justus Piater, Emre Ugur, and Simon Hangl appear in the media: Radio report on child-like robot learning by ORF Ö1 Wissen Aktuell (in German). |
2016-04-16 | Philipp Zech appears in the media: Print Article (News). |
2016-04-05 | Simon Haller appears in the media: Die Zukunft der Roboter, TT Interview.. |
2016-04-02 – 2016-04-03 | Simon Haller, Sebastian Stabinger, Cornelia Vidovic, and Justus Piater co-organize the RoboCupJunior Austrian Open 2016. |
2016-03-02 | Simon Haller gives an invited talk Tips and Tricks for Rapid Prototyping using ROS at Robotics Seminar at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey. |
2016-02-29 – 2016-03-04 | Justus Piater co-organizes the Winter School on Interactive Mobile Manipulation. |
2016-02-21 | Emre Ugur gives an invited talk Closing the loop: From continuous exploration to symbolic planning at 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics, Osaka, Japan. |
2016-02-12 – 2016-02-17 | Safoura Rezapour contributes a talk Learning Compositional Object Representation with Functionality at AAAI-16 Robotics Fellowship Session, PHoenix, AZ, USA. |
2016-02-04 | Justus Piater appears in the media: Interview about potential for exploitation of ICT research by the Technology Transfer Center of Western Austria (WTZ West). |
2016-02-03 | Justus Piater appears in the media: Newspaper article (Tiroler Tageszeitung) following interview and robot demonstrations. |
2016-01-22 | Justus Piater teaches a tutorial Grasping and Manipulation at GMAR Winter School on Robotics, Graz, Austria. |
2016-01-21 | Philipp Zech contributes a talk Grasp Affordance Density Learning at GMAR Winter School on Robotics, Graz, Austria. |
2016-01-21 | Simon Haller contributes a talk Integrating Perception Neuron motion capturing into ROS at GMAR Winter School on Robotics, Graz, Austria. |
2016-01-21 | Senka Krivic contributes a talk Push Manipulation Skill at GMAR Winter School on Robotics, Graz, Austria. |
2016 | Emre Ugur edits a guest edition Computational Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. |
2015-12-17 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Distributions of Diverse Features For Single and Multiple-View Robot Vision at 1st International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose, at ICCV, Santiago, Chile. |
2015-12-03 – 2015-12-05 | Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez and George Azzopardi co-organize the The First International Workshop on Computational Models of the Visual Cortex: Hierarchies, Layers, Sparsity, Saliency and Attention. |
2015-10-04 – 2015-10-09 | Justus Piater, Jan Peters, Robert Platt, and Siddhartha Srinivasa co-organize the Dagstuhl Seminar 15411 on Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty. |
2015-09-28 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Stacked learning for bootstrapping symbols from sensorimotor experience at Workshop on Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots, at IROS, Hamburg, Germany. |
2015-09-28 | Emre Ugur, Lorenzo Jamone, Angelo Cangelosi, Tamim Asfour, and Jose Santos-Victor co-organize the Workshop on Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots. |
2015-08-04 | Simon Hangl contributes a talk Reactive, Task-specific Object Manipulation by Metric Reinforcement Learning at 2nd Human Brain Project School on Future Computing, Obergurgl, Austria. |
2015-07-31 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Stacked learning of affordances at Workshop on Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills, at ICAR, Istanbul, Turkey. |
2015-07-31 | Emre Ugur, Lorenzo Jamone, Yukie Nagai, and Erhan Oztop co-organize the Workshop on Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills. |
2015-07-16 | Emre Ugur gives an invited talk Bootstrapping Concept Learning: From Simple to Complex Affordances to Symbolic Planning at Workshop on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics, at RSS, Rome, Italy. |
2015-07-16 | Justus Piater and Tamim Asfour co-organize the Workshop on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics. |
2015-06-03 – 2015-06-05 | Safoura Rezapour contributes a talk CPS: 3D Compositional Part Segmentation through Grasping at 12th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
2015-05-30 | Justus Piater gives an invited talk Robot vision in times of flight: RGB-D = red-green-blue is dead? at Workshop on Robotic Hands, Grasping, and Manipulation, at ICRA, Seattle, USA. |
2015-05-04 | Sebastian Stabinger appears in the media: Robotertechnik für Blinde: Interview with 20er about master project. |
2015-02-06 | Sebastian Stabinger appears in the media: Eine Kamera als Sehhilfe: Audio interview with ipoint about master project. |