Iman Awaad is supervised as a doctoral student in computer science at H-BRS and ensures that robots overcome barriers. “Robots are supposed to make life easier for us in the household – difficult when the domestic environment is constantly changing. Imagine you want a glass of milk brought to you. If there are no glasses because they’re all in the dishwasher, the robot encounters insurmountable barriers. My goal is to make robots more creative in their task implementation. Like humans, they should be able to adapt to changing conditions. It’s difficult to impart knowledge to robots. You try to model a complex world with the very simple representations used in automated planning. With so-called Semantic Web technology, I want to make the environment more readable for robots. I can program a substitute decision mechanism, for instance. Then, incomplete information no longer throws the robot off track. Instead the robot can independently work out an alternative solution. If there are no more glasses in the cupboard, it will take a cup.”
"diffusion: create clarity | overcome barriers | be heard", annual report of H-BRS 2019
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