Zsolt Kira
GVU Center, TSRB
85 Fifth Street NW
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0760
Phone: 404-894-9311
Email: zkira at gatech.edu
Office: TSRB 238, TSRB S27
Research Statement
I am interested in robots that learn, adapt, and communicate with one another .
Learning and adaptation refers to the fact that in order to make robots that are useful in many situations and tasks (as opposed to a really niche robot), they must learn how to perform tasks and adapt to changing situations when they arise. Although there have been many methods involving hand-coding of contingencies, I believe robots should learn these through interaction with the world.
Cooperation: Learning is hard! We don't want to have to teach each robot individually, or for each robot to spend a long time gathering experience. We also don't want brittle hand-coded robots. Solution: Allow the robots to communicate and share knowledge that they have learned.
Thesis Project
Heterogeneous Knowledge Sharing
This project is what I am most excited about!
Heterogeneous teams of robots, where each robot has a
different set of perceptual capabilities, that can bridge their
differences and share learned knowledge.
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Other Active Projects
Old Projects
Visual SLAM
We investigated use of Visual SLAM in an outdoor environment, in addition to sharing of the resulting topological map among heterogeneous robots. Project webpage is here.
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Teleoperation
During Fall 2002, Jung Hoon (another graduate student) and I implemented a user interface for teleoperation. It displays hardware information (e.g. battery) as well as communications quality (ping time) and several other features. This work was part of the FCSC project.
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