IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Ottawa Chapter

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Date	Wednesday March 17, 2010
Time	14:00-16:00
Location	Room 5084, SITE Building, University of Ottawa
Title	Development of a Robotic Platform for Human Robot Interaction
Speaker	Genci Capi , Associate Professor
	University of Toyoma, Japan
	Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering
Abstract Robots are, or soon will be, used in such critical domains as search and rescue, military battle, mine and bomb detection, scientific exploration, law enforcement, and hospital care. Such robots must coordinate their behaviors with the requirements and expectations of human team members; they are more than mere tools but rather quasi-team members whose tasks have to be integrated with those of humans. In the Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Toyama we are working on Human-Robot Interaction and in this talk I will present the research work on: 1. Gesture recognition for human robot interaction. 2. Human robot interaction using natural language. 3. Intelligent robot navigation using the visual information. 4. Robot Map Building.
Speaker Bio Genci Capi is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Toyama, and the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. His current research interests are in the areas of intelligent and autonomous robots, brain-machine interface and multi-robots system. He is the recipient of several awards such as the Highly Commended Award from the Literati Awards for Excellence. Dr. Capi is member of the editorial board of several journals and organizer of many conferences in the field of intelligent robots. He has authored more than 100 articles in high-impact journals and conferences proceedings.