UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
		 COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

			      presents

       "Information-Processing Architectures for Intelligent Robots: 
                 Designs, Tools, Examples and Experiments"

                           Dr. Nick Hawes
                    (School of Computer Science, 
                     University of Birmingham)


		       12 December 2007 (Wednesday)

			  Lecture Theatre E351
		       Hatfield, College Lane Campus
			       3 - 4 pm

	       Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available.

		    Everyone is Welcome to Attend



Abstract:

The information-processing architecture chosen for an intelligent
system dictates many aspects of both its design-time and run-time
behaviour. Understanding the space of possible designs (and the
related trade-offs) for an architecture for an intelligent robot is
therefore a major challenge for researchers interested in building
cognitive artifacts. In this talk I will present some of the recent
work done within the CoSy project (an EU FP6 Cognitive Systems
integrated project) and how it relates to this challenge. The talk
will focus on the CoSy Architecture Schema and its related software
toolkit. This toolkit has allowed us to build integrated robotic
systems for human-robot interaction scenarios, whilst using the same
systems for exploring trade-offs in architectural design space.

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