IntCDC Constructive Conversations: "Opportunities in Collective Robotic Construction, viewpoints from the robotics field".
mpi-is 12 June 2023 - 12 June 2023 MPI-IS Stuttgart, 2P04
The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active research area. Collective robotic construction (CRC) specifically concerns embodied, autonomous, multirobot systems that modify a shared environment according to high-level user-specified goals. CRC tightly integrates architectural design, the construction process, mechanisms, and control to achieve scalability and adaptability. In this lecture, which is closely tied to the related review article in Science Robotics 2020, we will discuss research trends, open questions, and performance metrics. We will also stress the importance of appreciating the different motivations that drive research-driven versus application-driven developments in robotics as it pertains to architecture.
The University of Stuttgart has established its new Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Computer-Based Design and Construction for Architecture" (IntCDC) in 2019. With an initial funding period of seven years, a cluster of excellence is the most significant and extensive funding provided by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This is the first time that a Cluster of Excellence has been awarded for the field of architecture. The Cluster of Excellence IntCDC contributes to establishing an internationally visible research center.
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Speaker Biography:
| Kirstin Petersen and Nils Napp (Professors) | |
| Cornell University | |
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The Perceiving Systems Department is a leading Computer Vision group in Germany.
We are part of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen — the heart of Cyber Valley.
We use Machine Learning to train computers to recover human behavior in fine detail, including face and hand movement. We also recover the 3D structure of the world, its motion, and the objects in it to understand how humans interact with 3D scenes.
By capturing human motion, and modeling behavior, we contibute realistic avatars to Computer Graphics.
To have an impact beyond academia we develop applications in medicine and psychology, spin off companies, and license technology. We make most of our code and data available to the research community.