Talk of Prof. Kei Okada on 14.08.2009

Prof. Kei Okada from the University of Tokyo (JSK Laboratory) will give a talk about "Integrated humanoid robot system for daily assistive tasks".
The talk will take place at 14:00o'clock on Friday, 14th of August 2009 in Garching (Mathematics/Computer Science building), in room 02.09.023 (chair Prof. Radig, Prof. Beetz PhD).

Abstract
I will talk about our effort to develop humanoid system that integrate manipulation, vision and planning. The uniqueness of our system is the developmental approach that we have been keeping fundamental software environment more than 10-20 years; The system evaluated on real humanoid in real environments and a subsequent  version of the system is build upon the verified previous system, and each function and software is tested on different type of robot includeing HRP2 humanoid, Toyota wheel-based humanoid and Panasonic kitchen arm robots.

In addition to overview of our robotic system software, I will present our current research activities that the system capable of recognize failure and plan recovery actions with task-relevant knowledge that integrate motion planning, visual recognition and high-level task planning.

Short CV
Kei Okada received the BE in Computer Science from Kyoto University in 1997. He received the MS and the PhD in Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1999 and 2002 respectively. From 2002 to 2006, he jointed the Professional Programme for Strategic Software Project in The University Tokyo.  He was appointed as a Lecturer in the Creative Informatics at the University of Tokyo in 2006 and a Professor in the Department of Mechano-Informatics in 2009. His research interests include humanoids robots, real-time 3D computer vision, and recognition-action integrated system.