Subcommittee on  Intelligent Robotics and Systems


Chairs:
Antoni Grau-Saldes, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Gabriel Oliver from the University of Balearic Islands, Spain
 

Scope: Cognitive robotics; Cooperative and collaborative robotics; Distributed robotic architectures; Human-robot interaction; Integrated intelligence; Intelligent robot assistants; Intelligent embedded systems; Natural language grounding; Network robotics; Perception, control and manipulation for intelligent robots and systems; Planning and failure recovery; Reasoning under uncertainty; Robot learning; Robot vision; Usability studies. Education and Training in Intelligent Robots and systems.

Antoni Grau-Saldes received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1990 and 1997, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Automatic Control, UPC, giving lectures on computer vision, microprocessors, and peripheral devices at the School of Informatics of Barcelona (FIB) and the College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (EUETIB-CEIB).

Dr. Grau is the Director of the “Control Engineering and Industrial Automation” postgraduate course. He is a co-author of three books on programmable logic controllers and industrial communications. He is the author of more than 100 published papers. His research areas are computer vision, pattern recognition, robotics, factory automation, and education on sustainable development.

Dr. Grau is member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He has chaired several international conferences. He is member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE-IES).

Contact email address: a.grau@iestcfa.org