[Allusers] "Talk" na próxima quarta-feira, dia 7, no ISR

[helder]

Na próxima quarta-feira, dia 7 de Novembro,às
14h 30 min, no anfiteatro do ISR, piso 0,
o Prof. Michael Greenspan vai apresentar uma
"talk" intitulada "Is Computational Intelligence Needed
to Play Robotic Pool?"

O resumo da talk e uma curta biografia do
Prof. Greenspan estão mais abaixo nesta
mensagem.

O Prof. Greenspan encontra-se de licença sabática
no ISR.

Estão todos convidados a assistir.

Helder Araújo

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Is Computational Intelligence Needed to Play Robotic Pool?

Since the seminal work on computational chess of Claude Shannon and Alan 
Turing,
computer gaming has had a long and respected tradition, and the success 
in 1997 of
 IBM's Deep Blue against world chess champion Gary Kasparov is regarded 
as a
turning point in the evolution of computational intelligence. To date, 
however,
no robotic system has successfully competed against a proficient human 
opponent.
 This talk will describe the development of Deep Green, a Robotic 
Intelligent
System being developed to compete against humans at the game of pool, which
currently plays 8 Ball at a better-than-amateur level. The Deep Green 
system
comprises: a ceiling mounted gantry robot; a cue end-effector; a machine
vision system; control and physical modeling algorithms; a search-tree
based strategy engine; and a full-sized pool table. The background research
and major design decisions will be reviewed, and recent results in 
automatic
play will be presented. The role that strategy plays in robotic pool 
will also
be discussed. The talk will conclude with a description of the future 
research
 problems that will be addressed to advance the system to perform at a 
competitive level.


Biography:

Michael Greenspan is an Associate Professor with the Department of 
Electrical
and Computer Engineering and the School of Computing at Queen's University,
Kingston, Canada. His research interests include pose determination, object
recognition, and tracking (especially using range data), and robotic gaming
systems. Michael was the recipient of the Canadian Image Processing and 
Pattern
Recognition 2003 Young Investigators Award, and the Premier's Research
Excellence Award. He is currently on sabbatical with the Institute of 
Systems
and Robotics at the University of Coimbra.



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