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3rdHand (EU FP7-ICT-STREP, 2013-2017) develops a semi-autonomous robot assistant that acts as a third hand of a human worker. It will be straightforward to instruct even by an untrained layman worker, allow for efficient knowledge transfer between tasks, and enable effective collaboration between a human worker with a robot third hand. The main contributions of this project will be the scientific principles of semi-autonomous human-robot collaboration, a new semi-autonomous robotic system that is able to (i) learn cooperative tasks from demonstration, (ii) learn from instruction, and (iii) transfer knowledge between tasks and environments.
IntellAct (EU FP7-ICT-STREP, 2011-2014) addresses the problem of understanding and exploiting the meaning (semantics) of manipulations in terms of objects, actions and their consequences for reproducing human actions with machines. This is in particular required for the interaction between humans and robots in which the robot has to understand the human action and then to transfer it to its own embodiment.
LearnBiP (EU FP7-ICT ECHORD Experiment, 2011-2012) has two main aims. First it utilizes the huge amount of data generated in industrial bin-picking for the introduction of grasp learning. Second it evaluates the potential of the SCHUNK dexterous hand SDH-2 for its application in industrial bin-picking.
SignSpeak (EU FP7-ICT-STREP, 2009-2012) focused on scientific understanding and vision-based technological development for continuous sign language recognition and translation. The aim was to increase the linguistic understanding of sign languages and to create methods for transcribing sign language into text. See an article in the Projects magazine.
PACO-PLUS (“perception, action and cognition through learning of object-action complexes”, EU FP6-IST-IP, 2006-2010) brings together an interdisciplinary research team to design and build cognitive robots capable of developing perceptual, behavioural and cognitive categories that can be used, communicated and shared with other humans and artificial agents. To demonstrate our approach we are building robot systems that will display increasingly advanced cognitive capabilities over the course of the programme. They will learn to operate in the real world and to interact and communicate with humans. To do this they must model and reflectively reason about their perceptions and actions in order to learn, act and react appropriately. We hypothesize that such understanding can only be attained by embodied agents and requires the simultaneous consideration of perception and action.
TRICTRAC (2003-2006), directed by J. Piater, aimed at the development of algorithms for real-time object tracking in one or more live video streams. It was a joint project between the Université de Liège and the Université Catholique de Louvain funded by the Walloon Region. Some results are summarized in a video.