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Alan C. Schultz
Director
Navy Center for Applied Research
in Artificial Intelligence
Naval Research Laboratory
Area of Specialization
Human-robot interaction, autonomous robots, machine learning, evolutionary computation.
Background and Interest
My current research projects are focused on human-robot interaction, specifically, the use of
computation cognitive models of certain human cognitive skills as reasoning components for
intelligent robots. We believe that giving the system cognitive models can enhance the humansystem interface by allowing more common ground in the form of cognitively plausible
representations and qualitative reasoning, and giving the system behaviors that are more natural
to the human can result in more natural interactions between the human and the intelligent robot.
I headed up the Navy Center for applied Research in Artificial Intelligence’s Intelligent Systems
Section prior to taking over as the Director in 2005. I was selected to teach at the first IEEE/RAS
Summer School on Human-Robot Interaction, have edited several collections in multi-robot
systems, and chaired many conferences and workshops in robotics and human-robot interaction.
In 1999 and 2000 I chaired the AAAI Mobile Robotics Competition and Exhibition. Our
research has spanned from developing a solution for simultaneous localization and mapping, to
multi-modal human-robot interfaces to cognitive modeling.
Recently, we have developed a computational cognitive model of a human’s ability to perform
visual, spatial perspective taking, and have used that model to allow robots to make human-like
decisions based on an understanding of the human partner’s perspective of the world.
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Navy Center for Applied Research in
Artificial Intelligence
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington DC 20375
Phone Number
(202) 767-2684 (O); 767-3172 (Fax)
Email
[email protected]
Web home page
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/aic/