Intelligent Systems Lab

Projects

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

Current projects

• Decentralized Planning Under Uncertainty for Cooperative Systems (FCT, 2007-2010)
• Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings (EU FP6)

Other research

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

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

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)

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

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.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
• Open-source implementation of Sony's OPEN-R Development Kit

Scientific Activities for Youngsters on Holidays

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

More information here (in Portuguese).