Robots
are information-driven systems that can see, think, and act.
Application areas of today’s robotics systems are expanding from
traditional factory floors to more complex outdoor and daily
environments. I will describe several systems that I was involved
in developing: autonomous driving car, robot helicopter and UAV,
EyeVision for Super Bowl broadcast, medical robots, and humanoid
robot. As glamorous as they sound, the development of such
systems requires the integration of many interdisciplinary expertise
and technologies. Sprinkled with tales of the fun in developing such
robots, this talk will provide a perspective of past and present
technologies as well as speculations for future robots, including much
closer relationship between human and robots for which we must study
and model human functions.
Biographic Sketch
Takeo
Kanade is currently the U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor
of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, and
also the Director of Digital Human Research Center that he founded in
Tokyo Japan. He received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering
from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After holding a faculty position
in the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined
Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. He was the Director of the Robotics
Institute from 1992 to 2001.
Dr. Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics: computer vision,
sensors, multi-media, autonomous ground and air mobile robots, and
medical robotics. He has written more than 300 technical papers and
reports in these areas, and holds more than 20 patents. He has been the
principal investigator of more than a dozen major vision and robotics
projects at Carnegie Mellon.
Dr. Kanade has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, a Founding Fellow of the American
Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the former and
founding editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision.
He has received several awards, including the NEC Computer and
Communication Award, the Joseph Engelberger Award, the FIT Funai
Accomplishment Award, the Allen Newell Research Excellence Award, the
JARA Award, the Marr Prize Award, and Longuete-Higgins Prize..