EAGER: Linguistic Task Transfer for Humans and Cyber Systems (Mike Stillman, Irfan Essa) NSF/RI This project, investigating formal languages as a general methodology for task transfer between distinct cyber-physical systems such as humans and robots, aims to expand the science of cyber physical systems by developing Motion Grammars that will enable task transfer between distinct […]
II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory (Stillman, Essa, Egerstadt, Christensen, Ueda) Division of Computer and Network Systems Instrumentation Grant. An anthropomorphic robot arm and a human capture system enable the autonomous performance of assembly tasks with significant uncertainty in problem specifications and environments. This line of work is investigated through sequences of manipulation actions where the guarantee of the completion […]
via Kitware – News: DARPA Awards Kitware a $13.8 Million Contract for Online Threat Detection and Forensic Analysis in Wide-Area Motion Imagery. Kitware has received a $13,883,314 contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a software system capable of automatically and interactively discovering actionable intelligence from wide area motion imagery (WAMI) of complex […]
Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS) Part of the team led by Kitware Inc to work on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS). The Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS) program is developing the capability to automatically and interactively identify potential threats as they emerge based on the […]
Award#0813831 – Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances in computational technology are rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported and distributed. Furthermore, new avenues for aggregating, visualizing, summarizing, consuming, and […]
Award#0749181 – SGER Collaborative Research: Persistent, Adaptive, Collaborative Synthespians ABSTRACT This project explores the development of methodologies for populating worlds with persistent, adaptive, collaborative, believable synthetic actors, referred to as Synthespians. These methods are extensions of adaptive models of learning and planning to accommodate the complex, dynamic environments in massive multi-player online games. The intellectual […]
Award# 0121661 – ITR/SY: The Aware Home: Sustaining the Quality of Life for an Aging Population ABSTRACT The focus of this project is on development of a domestic environment that is cognizant of the whereabouts and activities of its occupants and can support them in their everyday life. While the technology is applicable to a […]