Autonomous Robotic Systems: Some Instances

Post date: Nov 30, 2009 9:59:15 AM

Dr. Prahlad VadakkepatNational University of Singapore14 August 2007 :: 2 – 4 pmAbstract: Autonomous robotic systems have several advantages when dealing with complex real-world situations that demand intelligent automation spread over an area. Multi-robot teams are particularly interesting because they can easily accomplish several tasks that are difficult, if not impossible, to be tackled through a single robot.The talk will cover two instances of autonomous robotic systems: Robotic Soccer and Humanoid. The robotic soccer system is a test bed for cooperative robotic research. The talk will outline a fuzzy based behaviour architecture for a team of soccer robots. The second part of the talk will focus on the development of an autonomous humanoid robot.Biography: Prahlad Vadakkepat received his M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in 1989 and 1996 respectively. He was with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) from 1996 to 1998 as a post doctoral fellow. He is now an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in humanoid robotics, distributed robotic systems, evolutionary robotics, Neuro-fuzzy controllers and intelligent control techniques.

Vadakkepat is the founder secretary of the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association [www.fira.net] and currently the FIRA General Secretary. He was appointed as the Technical Activity Coordinator of IEEE Region 10 from 2001 to 2002. He is the Associate editor to the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics since 2003.

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