Intelligent Systems Lab

Projects

ISLab has been involved in several financed projects, both european and national.

Current projects

• Activities Related to the Development of an Air Transfer System Prototype and Cask Transfer System Virtual Mock-up (EURATOM Fusion for Energy / ITER)
• Decentralized Planning Under Uncertainty for Cooperative Systems (FCT, 2007-2010)
• SocRob: Soccer Robots or Society of Robots (ISR internal)
• PCMMC: Perception-Driven Coordinated Multi-Robot Motion Control (FCT, 2010-2012)
• From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics (FCT, 2010-2013)
• MAIS-S: Sistema Multiagente de Vigilância Inteligente / Multiagent Intelligent Surveillance System (CMU-Portugal, 2010-2013)

Past projects

• URUS: Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings (EU FP6)
• FEMDS
• HROSS
• SocRob2004/FCT
• RESCUE
• RAPOSA
• DARE
• MS-AGENCY

Other research

Current research is being conducted by ISLab members on these core areas:

• Institutional Robotics
• Field Robotics
• Humanoid Robotics
• Formation State Estimation and Control
• Discrete Event Systems Based Robotic Task Modeling
• Planning under Uncertainty
• Cooperative Active Perception
• Cognitive Architectures

ISR Associate Laboratory

The Intelligent Systems Lab has actively participated in the research activities within theme B (Robotic Monitoring and Surveillance) of Institute for Systems and Robotics -- Associate Laboratory.

Workshops

The following workshops had ISLab members on their organizing comitees.

• Lisbon Workshop on New Challenges for Cooperative Robotics (October 2008)
• ICAPS'08 Multiagent Planning Workshop (September 2008)
• AAMAS'08 Workshop on Formal Models and Methods for Multi-Robot Systems (May 2008)
• Workshop on Cooperative Robotics at ICRA'2005 (April 2005)

ISLab workshop series

Since 2003 ISLab has been promoting one-day internal workshops where lab members present and discuss their current work with all lab members. These workshops not only allow everybody to know what everybody is doing, but also to foster practice on public presentations. Although the workshops are held on a very informal fashion, students often take this opportunity to rehearse conference and thesis defense presentations.

• 1st edition - February 23th, 2003
• 2nd edition - July 18th, 2003
• 3rd edition - February 13th, 2004
• 4th edition - November 12th, 2004
• 5th edition - January 12th, 2006
• 6th edition - October 3th, 2008
• 7th edition - October 26th, 2009

Institutional Links

The scientific community organizes itself on interest groups and associations. The leading organizations on the scientific areas of ISLab, and with which ISLab members play an active role, in various degrees, are listed here:

• http://www.aass.oru.se/Agora/EuronCoop/ — CR SIG: EURON Special Interest Group on Cooperative Robotics
• http://www.ieee.org — IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• http://www.aaai.org — AAAI: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• http://www.robocup.org — RoboCup: Robot World Cup Initiative
• http://www.spr.ua.pt — SPR: Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica
• http://www.appia.pt — APPIA: Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial

Software

Public domain software developed at ISLab, in the context of research activities.

• Multiagent decision process toolbox
• Dec-POMDP problem domains
• Matlab functions for FSA
• Open-source implementation of Sony's OPEN-R Development Kit

Educational open source software developed by ISLab staff for IST courses (mostly Python).

• Bayes filtering in 1-D, including Discrete Bayes, Kalman filter, Particle filtering (Monte-Carlo), and occupancy grid mapping (inverse sensor model): demo_bayes-1.3.py
• Solving Sudoku using plain backtrack search: sudoku.py
• Pioneer DX3 robot interface software for MATLAB: matlab_pioneer.zip

Scientific Activities for Youngsters

ISLab has a long tradition on the dissemination of science and technology to youngsters, as the researchers of tomorrow are now among them.

• Pioneer project of S&T Education through Robotics: RODITAS
• Scientific Activities for Youngsters on Holidays