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Humans and other intelligent
creatures are capable of managing in an unknown environment and performing
various tasks, dealing with unexpected event and acquiring new skills.
These behaviours are displayed in close interaction with the surrounding
world and involves intensive collection, processing, storage and retrieval
of information, based on our senses and experience. It is obvious that
if technological realizations of autonomous agents with even a fraction
of such capabilities were available, they would have a wide range of applications.
Such systems would be able to act for extended periods of time in unknown
environments while solving problems and attaining goals, improving their
performance through adaptation and learning, co-existing and cooperating
with other autonomously behaving agents. These properties would be extremely
useful in a multitude of industrial, domestic and societal applications.
Research To construct such systems there is a need for research in a number of different component techniques to provide the needed competencies, but more important, there is a need for an interdisciplinary effort that enables integration of the different techniques into fully operational systems. The Centre for Autonomous Systems is a new research centre that carries out research and provides education with respect to such systems. CAS is an immaterial centre composed of
four research groups from three out of the five schools at KTH. The participating
groups are: Computational Vision and Active Perception (CVAP),
Nada; Dept. of Signals, Sensors and Systems (S3); Dept. of Optimization
and Systems Theory (OPTSYST) and Mechatronics Group, Dept. of Machine Design
(DAMEK).
Funding & Partners The centre is sponsored by the Foundation for Strategic Research. In addition a graduate school in Autonomous Systems forms an integral part of the centre. Industrial partners are ABB, Electrolux, CelsiusTech Electronics, Permobil and WEDA Poolcleaner. |