RobotCub

Research

RobotCub

The RobotCub project is a research initiative in embodied cognition that will create and exploit a 54 degree-of-freedom humanoid robot.

This humanoid - iCub - is currently being designed and the final platform will be made freely available to the scientific community through the GNU public license (GPL). This project encapsulates a research agenda in cognitive systems that is based on the co-developmental learning through embodied physical interaction: exploration, manipulation, imitation, and communication. This agenda borrows heavily from experience in developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The robot's cognitive architecture, a distributed and platform independent software framework, will also be available under the GPL .

People:
Harold Martinez
Rolf Pfeifer

Available student projects:

pdf Build a real time tracking system (Msc. Thesis/ Phd. Internship)

pdf Build a real time stereo algorithm (Msc. Thesis/ Phd. Internship)

Links:
More information on the iCub robot: http://www.robotcub.org
pictures: http://www.robotcub.org/index.php/robotcub/platform/images
YARP library: http://eris.liralab.it/yarp

Requirements:
-Good background in theory and design of control systems.
-Basic experience in programming in c or c++.
-Some basic Linux knowledge is usefull.
-Final report in english.
Contact: Jonas Ruesch, ruesch at ifi.uzh.ch

More generally, for students interested in this research topic, as described in the abstract above, and would like to arrange for various types of research projects (semester thesis, bachelor thesis, master thesis, diploma thesis, SIROP project, laboratory practice, etc), please contact Harold Martinez, martinez at ifi.uzh.ch.