ARC Research Network for Enabling Human Communication. The Human Communication Network promotes interdisciplinary research in speech, language, and sound by and between humans and machines. The network connects leading and emerging researchers across disciplines, exploits previously unrecognised intersections, supports interdisciplinary graduate training and exchanges, provides database storage infrastructure, and consults with industry and government to set, not follow, research agendas. By ge ....ARC Research Network for Enabling Human Communication. The Human Communication Network promotes interdisciplinary research in speech, language, and sound by and between humans and machines. The network connects leading and emerging researchers across disciplines, exploits previously unrecognised intersections, supports interdisciplinary graduate training and exchanges, provides database storage infrastructure, and consults with industry and government to set, not follow, research agendas. By generating an explosion of new approaches and knowledge, the network will build Australia's reputation as a leader in communication science and technology via advances in automatic speech recognition, distress call monitoring, hearing prostheses, web interfaces, and data retrieval and data mining systems.Read moreRead less
Talking with Robots: Evolving Grounded Language for Embodied Agents. The coming personal robot revolution will be built on robots that have real-world intelligence, with an ability to understand and communicate about the world in the way we humans do. This project extends a previous ARC project, which developed robot-friendly languages for naming places in the world. This new project will develop the robots' abilities and language to understand a comprehensive range of real world objects, places ....Talking with Robots: Evolving Grounded Language for Embodied Agents. The coming personal robot revolution will be built on robots that have real-world intelligence, with an ability to understand and communicate about the world in the way we humans do. This project extends a previous ARC project, which developed robot-friendly languages for naming places in the world. This new project will develop the robots' abilities and language to understand a comprehensive range of real world objects, places, actions, attributes and relationships. This project represents a major advance for Australia in the new and fast growing personal robot industry.Read moreRead less
Enhancing Intelligent Robot Navigation with the Evolution of a Robot-Friendly Language. Personal robots are set to become as popular as personal computers. The key ingredient that has been missing is intelligence - not the kind of intelligence that plays chess, but the kind that allows robots to understand the world in the way that we humans do. This project represents a major advance in that kind of intelligence, giving robots the ability to understand the world and the ability to communicate a ....Enhancing Intelligent Robot Navigation with the Evolution of a Robot-Friendly Language. Personal robots are set to become as popular as personal computers. The key ingredient that has been missing is intelligence - not the kind of intelligence that plays chess, but the kind that allows robots to understand the world in the way that we humans do. This project represents a major advance in that kind of intelligence, giving robots the ability to understand the world and the ability to communicate about their experiences. Armed with this new technology, Australia will have a competitive edge in the new and fast growing personal robot industry.Read moreRead less
Robot Navigation From Nature: Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping Based On Hippocampal Models. This project will create a new method of robot control that allows a robot to learn a map of any area and then navigate using that map. The new method is based on ideas from recent models of rodent brains.
The resulting improvements in robot navigation offer immediate benefits to the emerging service robot industry. In addition, the act of reproducing a high-level brain function in a robot will inc ....Robot Navigation From Nature: Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping Based On Hippocampal Models. This project will create a new method of robot control that allows a robot to learn a map of any area and then navigate using that map. The new method is based on ideas from recent models of rodent brains.
The resulting improvements in robot navigation offer immediate benefits to the emerging service robot industry. In addition, the act of reproducing a high-level brain function in a robot will increase the understanding of memory and learning in mammals, including humans. Consequently, the outcomes of this research will benefit both robot designers and brain researchers.
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Thinking Systems: Navigating Through Real and Conceptual Spaces. The project will provide fundamental insights into physical and conceptual spaces and develop applications in robotics and information systems. The project brings together national and international researchers to study how humans and other animals navigate: how trajectories through space are used to build maps, the neural bases of these mapping processes and how to use maps to achieve goals. The project will develop a new generati ....Thinking Systems: Navigating Through Real and Conceptual Spaces. The project will provide fundamental insights into physical and conceptual spaces and develop applications in robotics and information systems. The project brings together national and international researchers to study how humans and other animals navigate: how trajectories through space are used to build maps, the neural bases of these mapping processes and how to use maps to achieve goals. The project will develop a new generation of robots that can learn about the physical spaces they work in, and create concept-mapping systems that can map and navigate information spaces. Also, it will provide new insights into the mechanisms regulating human cognition and mental dysfunctions.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354513
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$20,000.00
Summary
The Computational Processing of Human Language. Language is what makes us distinctly human; consequently, language attracts interest from many fields of research, particularly linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Moreover, language is the primary medium for the storage and dissemination of knowledge, a fact that has drawn many computer scientists to attempt to process, analyse and understand language. This network will bridge the many disciplines that are concerned with language, ex ....The Computational Processing of Human Language. Language is what makes us distinctly human; consequently, language attracts interest from many fields of research, particularly linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Moreover, language is the primary medium for the storage and dissemination of knowledge, a fact that has drawn many computer scientists to attempt to process, analyse and understand language. This network will bridge the many disciplines that are concerned with language, explore new ways in which computational models inform our understanding of human languages, and exploit new opportunities for applying theories of language in the development of human language technologies.Read moreRead less