Project: Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine (CRAM)

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.

Relevant Publications

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L. Roalter, T. Linner, M. Kranz, A. Möller, T. Bock
Robotics for Homecare: Auf dem Weg zur Entwicklung maßgeschneiderter Unterstützungssysteme
In: uDay IX - Intelligent wohnen, pp. 70-77, Pabst Science Publishers, Austria, May 2011
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T. Linner, M. Kranz, L. Roalter, T. Bock
Robotic and Ubiquitous Technologies for Welfare Habitat
In: Journal of Habitat Engineering 2011, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 101-110, March 2011
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M. Kranz, A. Möller, L. Roalter
Robots, Objects, Humans: Towards Seamless Interaction in Intelligent Environments
In: 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS 2011), pp. 163-172, Algarve, Portugal, March 2011
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T. Linner, M. Kranz, L. Roalter, T. Bock
Compacted and Industrially Customizable Ambient Intelligent Service Units: Typology, Examples and Performance
In: 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2010), pp. 295-300, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2010.
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M. Kranz, T. Linner, B. Ellmann, A. Bittner, L. Roalter
Robotic Service Cores for Ambient Assisted Living
In: 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2010), pp. 1-8, München, Germany, March 2010
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P. Holleis, M. Kranz, A. Winter, A. Schmidt
Playing with the Real World
In: Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-12, April 2006
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Project Outline: Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine (CRAM)

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