Dr. Tijn van der Zant
Tijn van der
Zant, Ph.D. is Director of the
Cognitive Robotics Laboratory at
the University of Groningen, Founder and Director at
AIMLearn, and
Cofounder and Executive at
RoboCup@Home.
Tijn is a researcher working on massive parallel machine learning on
supercomputers and on developing adaptive robot brains.
The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot
technology with high relevance for future personal domestic
applications. It is the largest international annual competition for
autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set
of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and
performance in a realistic non-standardized home environment setting.
Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to:
Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in
dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under
natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors,
Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization, and System
Integration. It is colocated with the RoboCup symposium.
Tijn coauthored
Layout Analysis of Handwritten Historical Documents for
Searching the Archive of the Cabinet of the Dutch Queen.
RoboCup X: A proposal for a new league where
RoboCup goes real world,
Online robot learning using the interval estimation
algorithm,
RoboCup@Home: Scientific Competition
and Benchmarking for Domestic Service Robots,
Lightweight Management – taming the RoboCup
development process,
Identification
of motion with echo state network, and
Handwritten-Word Spotting Using Biologically Inspired
Features.
Tijn earned his BSc. and MSc. in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at
the Universiteit Utrecht.
He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence at Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen in 2009.
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