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Robotic and Virtual Assistive Agents for Establishing the Center on Autonomous and Interactive Systems
Autonomous and Interactive Systems at UC Merced has broad applications and focuses on the extremely important capability that intelligent systems have to achieve in order to be inserted in society: the ability to autonomously act with, and/or in cooperation with, people. The projects focus on systems that can be used to train and assist people in preparation for or during complex and difficult situations. With the word systems we target a broad class of artifacts, like mobile robots, digital virtual characters, and embedded systems, just to name a few. These systems can operate in various ways. They can be fully autonomous, remotely operated, or receive sporadic control actions from human beings. Their design can also vary considerably. They can be programmed by composing carefully engineered simple functionalities, or they can be taught high level concepts that they later on reuse and generalize in various contexts. All these topics concern the development of new methods and algorithms for achieving truly Autonomous and Interactive Systems.