Marek A. Perkowski, theatre director.

PORTLAND CYBER THEATRE.

ACTIVITIES FOR PSU STUDENTS.



Advanced Logic Synthesis class teaches about several machine learning and knowledge representation/deduction mechanisms that are used in the software of our robots.

Below you will find information about existing robot theatres and technologies related to Portland Cyber Theatre. Our robots operate in three spaces: perception space, action space and conceptual space. We have separate editors and tools to uniformly edit and learn the mappings in each of these spaces. Currently the following technologies are used:

ROBOT DESIGN:
  1. Mechanical design of humanoid robots.
  2. Artistic design and make-up of robots.
  3. Artistic expression of gesture and movement. Movement Animation.


PERCEPTUAL SPACE: SENSORS AND SENSOR FUSION:
  1. Touch sensors
  2. Distance sensors
  3. Sonars.
  4. IR sensors.
  5. Other sensors.


ACTION SPACE: ROBOT MOVEMENT ANIMATION:
  1. Movement editing techniques that combine animation with probabilistic models.
  2. Immitation techniques.
  3. Methods based on movie animation.


ROBOT REASONING, EMOTIONS AND INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOR:
  1. Binary logic and predicate calculus.
  2. Multiple-Valued logic.
  3. Fuzzy logic.
  4. Probabilistic logic.
  5. Quantum logic.
  6. Higher-Order logic.
  7. Social skills.


ROBOT LEARNING:
  1. Immitation of emotions.
  2. Learning gestures from humans by immitation.
  3. Learning language and behaviors based on constructive induction.
  4. Learning based on fuzzy logic.
  5. Learning based on evolutionary algorithms: GA, GP, memetic, lamarckian.
  6. Reinforcement learning.
  7. Artificial Neural Networks and other Connectionist Models.


ROBOT VISION:
  1. Recognition of a person: "Who is this person?"
  2. Recognition of emotions: "What is the mood of this person?"
  3. Recognition of hand gestures: "What the hand movements tell me?"
  4. Recognition of body posture: "What the body posture tells me?" "What is the body characteristics of the person?"
  5. Recognition of specific items: "What is the item in the hand?", "How many fingers are up?" "How many people in the room?" "How old is this person?" "Is this a man or a woman?"


ROBOT SPEECH RECOGNITON:
  1. "Who is this speaking person?"
  2. Word spotting.
  3. Sentence recognition.
  4. Emotion recognition.


ROBOT SPEECH GENERATION:
  1. Text-to-speech with emotion.
  2. Digitized speech mixed with text-to-speech generated speech.


ROBOT-HUMAN NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOG:
  1. Dialog based on Eliza and Alice technologies.
  2. Dialog based on deduction.
  3. Dialog based on constructive induction.
  4. Dialog based on fuzzy and neural methods.
  5. Dialog based on probabilistic and reversible grammars approaches.
  6. Dialog based on analogy and abduction.


SOUND, THEATRE STAGE DESIGN, LIGHTNING AND SPECIAL EFFECTS:
  1. Stage design.
  2. Lightning design.
  3. Sound system design.
  4. Special effects system design: computer-controlled lights, pan-tilt speakers, smoke generators, smell generators.
  5. Public sensing sensors in walls.
  6. Infra-red cameras and ceiling cameras. Hidden cameras.


LINKS TO TECHNICAL MATERIAL FOR MORE ADVANCED ROBOT BUILDERS.



Please look here for more technical information about theories that we are using. You can find more in ECE 478 and ECE 479 classes, other classes taught by M. Perkowski and in the publications list. List of research subjects and links.

PUBLICATIONS OF OUR RESEARCH GROUP RELATED TO HUMANOID ROBOTS AND ROBOT THEATRE

  1. Marek Perkowski, "Oregon Cyber Theatre," Proc. of Third Symposium on Logic, Design and Learning.

  2. ``Learning in Hardware using Multiple-Valued Logic,''
    Part 1 of the article in PDF format.

    Part 2 of the article in PDF format.

  3. Stanislaw Grygiel, Martin Zwick and Marek Perkowski, ``Multi-Level Decomposition of Probabilistic Relations,'' Book of Abstracts of the 12th International WOSC Congress and the 4th International Institute for General System Studies (IIGS) workshop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p. xx, 24-26 March 2002.
    PDF format

  4. Anas Al-Rabadi, Martin Zwick and Marek Perkowski, ``A Comparison of Enhanced Reconstructability Analysis and Ashenhurst-Curtis Decomposition of Boolean Functions,'' Book of Abstracts of the 12th International WOSC Congress and the 4th International Institute for General System Studies (IIGS) workshop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p. 12, 24-26 March 2002.
    Abstract in HTML format

  5. Uland Wong, and Marek Perkowski, ``A New Approach to Robot's Imitation of Behaviors by Decomposition of Multiple-Valued Relations,'' Proceedings of Symposium on Boolean Problems. September, 2002, Freiberg, Germany.
    PDF format
  6. Paul Burkey and Marek Perkowski, ``Efficient Decomposition of Large Fuzzy Functions and Relations,'' Proceedings of International Conference on Fuzzy Information Processing. Theories and Applications, March 1 -- 4, Beijing, China, Tsinghua University Press and Springer, pp. 145-154.
    Part 1. PDF format
    Part 2. PDF format
    Part 3. PDF format
    Part 1. Word format
    Part 2. Word format
    Part 3. Word format

  7. Marek Perkowski, ``Probabilistic Robotics,'' Booklet of International Robotics Forum, April 17, 2003, KAIST, Korea.
    Slides in PDF format

  8. Michele Folgheraiter, Giuseppina Gini, Marek Perkowski, and Mikhail Pivtoraiko, ``Blackfingers: a Sophisticated Hand Prosthesis,'' Proceedings of ICORR 2003 (the 8th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics), April 22-25, 2003, KAIST, Korea, pp. 238 -- 241.
    PDF format

  9. Marek Perkowski, Tsutomu Sasao, Atsumu Iseno, Uland Wong, Mikhail Pivtoraiko, Michele Folgheraiter, Martin Lukac, David Ng, Miranda Fix and Karl Kuchs, ``Use of Machine Learning based on Constructive Induction in Dialogs with Robotic Heads,'' Proceedings of ICORR 2003 (the 8th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics), April 22-25, 2003, KAIST, Korea. pp. 326 -- 329.
    PDF format

  10. Michele Folgheraiter, Giuseppina Gini, Marek Perkowski, and Mikhail Pivtoraiko, ``Adaptive Reflex Control for an Artificial Hand,'' Proceedings of 7th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, SYROCO 2003, Holliday Inn, Wroclaw, Poland, 1-3 September, 2003.
    PDF format

  11. Quantum Breitenberg Vehicles. in preparation.



SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS.






Last Update of this List of Publications: May 31, 2004.

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