About This Course

The lecture deals with current techniques for the implementation of technical cognitive systems, i.e. intelligent computer systems that have sensors and actuators. Such systems are mainly used in areas such as service robotics, autonomous space probes, intelligent living and working environments and driver assistance systems.

The following topics are covered:

• Sensors, actuators and physical infrastructures of technical cognitive systems (including smart sensors, sensor networks)
• Computational models for controlling technical cognitive systems: dynamic system model, rational agent model, the computational model of technical cognitive systems
• Fundamentals of probabilistic state estimation: Bayes filters, Kalman filters, particle filters, mechanisms for data association, learning of sensor and action models, hidden Markov models, expectation maximization
• Applications of probabilistic state estimation: self-localization, environment mapping, object tracking
• Programming methods for technical cognitive systems: concurrent reactive control mechanisms; knowledge and plan-based control techniques