Robotics for Homecare: Auf dem Weg zur Entwicklung maßgeschneiderter Unterstützungssysteme
In: uDay IX - Intelligent wohnen, pp. 70-77, Pabst Science Publishers, Austria, May 2011


In the context of the PR2 Beta-Program (Personal Robot 2) of Willow Garage, the Technische Universität München (TUM) has been awarded a mobile Robot platform as a loan for two years.
The main scientific goal of TUM's project is to build CRAM (Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine) as a software toolbox for the design, implementation, and deployment of cognition-enabled autonomous robots performing everyday manipulation activities, such as the PR2. CRAM equips autonomous robots with lightweight reasoning mechanisms that can infer control decisions, such as those listed above, thereby obviating the need for pre-programmed decisions. In this way, CRAM-programmed autonomous robots become more flexible, reliable, and general-purpose than robots using control programs that lack such reasoning capabilities. The project's tasks assigned to the former Distributed Multimodal Information Processing group were successfully completed.
Project Title: | Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine (CRAM) |
Project Coordinator: | Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group KarlStr. 45, 80333 München Tel.: 089-289-17756 |
Project Volume: | 1 PR2 Roboter as a loan, - € |
Project Runtime: | 01.07.2010 – 30.06.2012 |
External Source: | WillowGarage |
Cooperation Partners: | Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group Institute for Cognitive Systems Fachgebiet Verteilte Multimodale Informationsverarbeitung CoTeSys |
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