NIFTi

Natural human-robot cooperation in dynamic environments

Coordinatore	DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH    more  Organization address address: Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Walter Cognome: OLTHOFF Email: send email Telefono: +49?631?20575?500 Fax: +49?631?20575?502
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	8˙578˙321 €
EC contributo	6˙610˙986 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-4
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-01-01   -   2013-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH	DE	coordinator	0.00
2	BLUEBOTICS SA  Organization address address: PARC SCIENTIFIQUE DE L EPFL city: LAUSANNE contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Nicola Cognome: Tomatis Email: send email Telefono: +41 21 693 83 14 Fax: +41 21 693 83 15	CH (LAUSANNE)	participant	0.00
3	CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE  Organization address address: ZIKOVA city: PRAHA contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Igor Cognome: Mraz Email: send email Telefono: +420224352 014 Fax: 420224000000	CZ (PRAHA)	participant	0.00
4	EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH  Organization address address: Raemistrasse city: ZUERICH contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Roland Cognome: Siegwart Email: send email Telefono: +41 44 632 23 58 Fax: +41 86 079 214 49 27	CH (ZUERICH)	participant	0.00
5	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V  Organization address address: Hansastrasse city: MUENCHEN contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Elke Cognome: Rupp Email: send email Telefono: 498912000000 Fax: 49891200000000	DE (MUENCHEN)	participant	0.00
6	MINISTERO DELL'INTERNO  Organization address address: Piazza del Viminale city: ROME contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Marco Cognome: Frezza Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 46538396 Fax: +39 06 46525286	IT (ROME)	participant	0.00
7	NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO  Organization address address: Schoemakerstraat city: DELFT contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Ger Cognome: Luijten Email: send email Telefono: +31(0)3463 56415 Fax: +31 (0)346 353 977	NL (DELFT)	participant	0.00
8	STADT DORTMUND  Organization address address: Hoher Wall city: DORTMUND contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Andrew Cognome: Kunter Email: send email Telefono: +49 - 231 - 47 77 65 12 Fax: +49 - 231 - 47 77 65 80	DE (DORTMUND)	participant	0.00
9	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro city: ROMA contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Luigia Cognome: Carlucci Aiello Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 77274134 Fax: +39 06 77274131	IT (ROMA)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

NIFTi puts the human factor into cognitive architectures. NIFTi investigates how natural behavior in human-robot cooperation can arise. NIFTi operationalizes natural cooperation as balancing operational and cooperation demands in a cognitive architecture (CA), to minimize human cognitive task load and optimize joint work flow.

NIFTi designs CAs by closely coupling cognitive user models to how the architecture understands the environment, how it performs actions, how it communicates. The architecture acquires maps which combine perceptual- and conceptual information. These maps capture where what is in the environment, and project this to how acting is affected. The CA combines projections with cognitive user models and plans to predict why changes in human behavior (due to attention, task load) may occur. The CA uses these predictions to anticipate how it should adapt acting and communication to align with the human. The CA bases planning and execution in a cognitive control model. Control uses attention, characteristics of agent morphology, and skill acquisition, to guide autonomous action execution in a cooperative context. The CA achieves balance by actively interconnecting content across modules. Content in modules is not isolated. In the NIFTi CA design, controllers interconnect content across modules, percolating content changes throughout the CA. Changes guide processing in a module; interconnectivity ensures behavior changes coherently system-wide. Controllers are learnt off- and online, using reinforcement learning and statistical (relational) learning.

Adapting to a human thus permeates the entire architecture. NIFTi focuses on cooperation in the USAR domain, to restrict what actions, forms of communication, and user aspects need to be taken into account. USAR end users join NIFTi to yearly evaluate its approach in real settings, using an integrated CA on a new robot with adaptive active/passive locomotion to jointly explore a disaster area.