EYESHOTS

The goal of EYESHOTS is to investigate the interplay existing between vision and motion control, and to study how to exploit this interaction to achieve a knowledge of the surrounding environment that allows a robot to act properly. Robot perception can be flexibly integrated with its own actions and the understanding of planned actions of humans in a shared workspace. The research relies upon the assumption that a complete and operative cognition of visual space can be achieved only through active exploration of it: the natural effectors of this cognition are the eyes and the arms.

Crucial but yet unsolved addressed issues are object recognition, dynamic shifts of attention, 3D space perception including eye and arm movements including action selection in unstructured environments. The project proposes a flexible solution based on the concept of visual fragments, which avoids a central representation of the environment and rather uses specialized components that interact with each other and tune themselves on the task at hand.

In addition to a high standard in engineering solutions the development and application of novel learning rules enables the system to acquire the necessary information directly from the environment.

Official project page

http://www.eyeshots.it

Funding

European Commission (FP7-ICT, grant no. 217077).

Duration

Start date: 1 Mar 2008,

Ending by: 28 Feb 2011.