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Rice University Department of Computer Science presents Antonis Argyros Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece Overview of research activities at CVRL: From sensors and actuators to autonomous robot behaviors Abstract In this talk, we present the main results of research and development activities at the Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL) of ICS-FORTH. The general research goal at CVRL is to study the issues involved in the development of robotic systems that are able to perceive their environment and exhibit autonomous behaviors. The research in this field is both of theoretic and practical interest. The development of perceptual capabilities and autonomous robot behaviors presupposes the solution of interesting theoretic problems and facilitates the understanding of the principles that govern the corresponding capabilities of biological organisms. Additionally, it forms a basis for the development of many interesting applications. In the context of this general research goal, we study specific capabilities related to the perception of motion and 3D structure as well as the development of specific robotic behaviors based on perceptual input. Emphasis is put in the exploitation of visual information that is acquired by either conventional or panoramic cameras. Additional efforts are directed towards the exploitation of information provided by non-visual sensors and its fusion with visual information. These research and development activities have resulted in specific research prototypes such as TOURBOT, a museum tour-guide robot and DRIVER, a robotic wheelchair for people with special needs. Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 4:00 p.m. in DH 1064 Reception at 3:30p.m. in DH 3092 About Antonis Argyros Dr. Antonis Argyros is a researcher at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He received his Ph.D. from the Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Crete, Greece, in visual motion analysis. During his post-doc at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), he worked on vision-based, reactive robot navigation. In 1999 he joined the Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, where he has been involved in many RTD projects in image analysis, computer vision and robotics. His current research interests include computer vision and robotics and particularly the visual perception of motion and 3D structure, the development of robot behaviors based on visual information and alternative visual sensors. Copyright 2000 Rice University site problems: www@cs.rice.edu --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---