===== Research =====

The SocRob team is mainly driven by research on the following topics:

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  * **Perception and sensor fusion**, that is, the problem of extracting meaningful information from one or more sensors, and how to fuse together information from several sources, taking into account their associated uncertainty. We take a probabilistic approach on quantitatively representing uncertainty, as well as performing inference, on the solid theoretical framework provided by Bayesian statistics;

  * **Decision making under uncertainty**, since both perception and action affects on the real world are inherently uncertain, we take a decision-theoretic approach on the maximization of the expected utility;

  * **Human-robot interaction**, once robots operate in human-inhabited environments, robots need to interact with humans; in this context we pursue multiple communication modalities, including speech, web-based remote interface, and onboard touch interface;

  * **Manipulation and grasping**, that is, the problem of robots being capable of grasping and manipulating real world objects in human; here we are interested on topics ranging from finger design, up to motion planning;

==== Publications ====

Our latest publication can be found on the link bellow.

http://welcome.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/research/publications/