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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Ross Knepper
DESCRIPTION:Title: Title: Algorithms for Multirobot and Human-robot
	 Interaction\nSpeaker: Ross Knepper\nAbstract: When building distributed
	 approaches for multirobot systems\, designers typically take control of
	 most aspects of the system (communication methodologies\, protocols\,
	 algorithms).  In contrast\, when designing multirobot systems to work
	 together with humans\, we are forced to adopt the standards implicitly
	 defined by human social norms.  In this talk\, I illustrate how to build
	 human-inspired distributed multirobot algorithms through the example of
	 pedestrian social navigation.\n\nSocial navigation requires a robot to
	 exhibit many strengths\, from perceiving the intentions of others
	 through social signals to acting clearly to convey intent. It is made
	 more difficult by the presence of many individual people with their own
	 agendas as well as by the fact that all communication and coordination
	 occurs implicitly through social signaling (chiefly gross body motion\,
	 eye gaze\, and body language).  Furthermore\, much of the information
	 people glean about one another's intentions is derived from the social
	 context.  For example\, office workers are more likely to be heading
	 towards the cafeteria if it is lunchtime and towards the exit if it is
	 time to go home.\n\nIn addition to exploring some of the mathematical
	 tools that allow us to tease apart the problem of social navigation\, I
	 also briefly touch on several other new projects that have potential
	 openings in my lab.  These topics include persistent autonomy (how to
	 make robots act with self-sufficiency for long periods of time)\, and
	 collaborative assembly (how can groups of people and robots work
	 together to build structures).
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2017-10-03
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20171003T160000Z
DTEND:20171003T170000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T235043Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
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