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Benjamin Kuipers

Office:	Taylor 2.116B
Email:	kuipers@cs.utexas.edu
Homepage:	cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/

Research Interests

My research interests are in the representation of common sense and expert knowledge, with particular emphasis on the effective use of incomplete knowledge and limited computational resources. This has led to reseach on qualitative and semi-quantitative simulation of continuous mechanisms (QSIM), reasoning with access-limited logics (Algernon), and robot and human exploration of large-scale spatial environments (TOUR and SSH).

Graduate Students

Micheal Hewett

Aniket Munakada

Juniechi Sugiura

Walker Duhon

Projects

Vulcan, The Intelligent Wheelchair: The Intelligent Wheelchair is intended for people with normal cognitive and perceptual functioning and severe mobility and communication restrictions. Vulcan's intent is to provide a spoken and non-verbal interface to an autonomous navigation system based on the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy.

Learning from Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors: How can a new robot, born into the world with no a priori knowledge of its sensors and effectors learn to interpret those sensors and effectors in a meaningful way, eventually forming a useful representation of its world?

Spatial Semantic Hierarchy : The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy is a heterogeneous representation for knowledge of large-scale space. It supports robust learning and problem-solving under a wide range of resource constraints. We explore exploration, learning and cognitive mapping withing this fromework.

Courses

CS 395T

Intelligent Robotics

Selected Publications

The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy

Qualitative and Quantitative Simulation: Bridging the Gap

Map Learning with Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors

Proving Properties of Continuous Systems: Qualitative Simulation and Temporal Logic