Center for Autonomous Systems
The Center for Autonomous Systems (CAS), established August 1st of 1996, is an interdisciplinary research facility located at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan’s (KTH) Computer Science and Communication department. Here, research of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, which includes mobile robot systems for manufacturing and domestic applications, is performed.
This center connects three KTH schools - the CSC, the EES, and the SCI. This facility’s research has spanned among various robotics, computer vision, and machine learning and control.
Among current projects the center has underway is the EU FP7 TOMSY, where the goal is to make it possible for a generational leap in the methods and abilities of motion synthesis algorithms. This is accomplished by learning and utilizing fitting topological presentations and testing them on challenging domains of flexible multi-object control and close-contact robot manipulation and computer animation.
Another is the EU FP7 eSMCs by Danica Kragic. It defies the usual perception-then-action control strategy by adopting a more aggressive theoretical perspective that turns this idea the other way around and stresses the constitutive role of action for perception.
The center is basically made up of three member groups - the Computational Vision and Active Perception (CVAP) located at the CSC, the Automatic Control at EES, and the Optimization and Systems Theory (OptSyt) located at the SCI.
