Silvia Coradeschi

News Two new projects starting: EU project Giraff+ and a new VR project "Long Term Symbol Anchoring for Dynamic and Realistic Environments" We have organized a Workshop on Social Robotics Telepresence at the HRI conference in Lausanne. We have started the Vinnova financed project Assessment of Food Quality : An Embedded Approach in cooperation with Sastra University in India. We have started our AAL-EU project ExCITE on Enabling Social Interaction Through Embodiment. Marco Trincavelli business idea based on our MEDNOSE project has recieved Venture Cup Öst prize for "Best business idea" in Stockholm. Of 200 proposals just 10 got the prize of 10.000Kr in a ceremony in Stockholm. Our MEDNOSE project has been nominated to Årets Innovationspris på Örebrogalan . MEDNOSE on the News!

Area of research

My main current research interests are in:

• Mobile robotics.
• Human Robot Interaction
• Integrating (anchoring) symbolic/apriori knowledge with sensory data.
• Environmental monitoring.
• Intelligent systems for medical applications.
• Intelligent homes for elderly autonomous living

The applications I have been working with (in the past) are: Autonomous helicopters for traffic surveillance in WITAS; Air-combat simulation in collaboration with Saab Military Aircraft; Agents for the simulation league of the Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup).

Projects

I lead the following projects:

• Assessment of Food Quality : An Embedded Approach in cooperation with Sastra University in India. Vinnova, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
• Giraff+ - Combing social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living European Commission FP7
• ExCITE - Enabling SoCial Interaction Through Embodiment European Commission FP7 AAL programme
• Long Term Symbol Anchoring for Dynamic and Realistic Environments Vetenskapsrådet, Swedish Research Council
• MULTISENS: Continuous Monitoring and Automatized Localization of Soil Pollutants RobotDalen, Swedish Robot Valley on funds from Vinnova and the EU
• REMOTE- Robotic tElepresence fOr disTributed CarE NovaMedTech, on funds from the EU

I participate to the following projects:

• GIRAFFE- Tests and evaluation of telepresence in health care RobotDalen, Swedish Robot Valley on funds from Vinnova and the EU
• MEDNOSE - Electronic Noses for Medical Applications and Diagnosis of ENT Bacteria NovaMedTech, on funds from the EU
• Ängen: a Physical Testbed Apartment for Prototyping Distributed Care Technologies NovaMedTech on funds from the EU

Managment and sevices to the scientific community

• I am associate member of the RoboCup Federation trustee committee.
• I was general chair of Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup-99 held in Stockholm, July 27 - August 6, 1999. Team descriptions at: "RoboCup-99 team descriptions" (follow the link "participants").
• I am organizing the Scandinavian RoboCup Committee . The Scandinavian RoboCup Committee has the aim to promote the RoboCup initiative in Scandinavia through organizing local events and putting in contact groups of research in Scandinavia that share the interest in RoboCup.
• I am member of the editorial board of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine.
• I was general chair of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI06).
• I was vice-president of European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI).
• I am head (akademichef) of the Academy of Science and Technology.

Teaching

• Knowledge Representation, graduate course.
• Artificial Intelligence (I am not teaching it this year) A basic course in Artificial Intelligence.
• AI Programming (I am not teaching it this year) An Artificial Intelligence Programming course using RoboCup. The course participants will create a number of agents, form a football team, and participate to a tournament.

PhD student I supervise and supervised

• Amy Loutfi
• Kevin Le Blanc
• Marco Trincavelli
• Marios Daoutis
• Annica Kristoffersson
• Martin Längkvist
• Mevludin Memedi, Dalarna University
• Jonas Ullberg
• Andreas Persson
• Marjan Alirezaie
• Erik Johansson (industridoktorand)
• Wagner Orique de Morais
• Tina Erlandsson (Saab AB, Linköping)

Publications

Human Robot Interaction

• Social robotic telepresence

  Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi, Annica Kristoffersson, Gabriella Cortellessa, Kerstin Severinson Eklundh
  HRI '11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction, 2011
• A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, K. Severinson-Eklundh An Exploratory Study of Health Professionals' Attitudes about Robotic Telepresence Technology In Journal of Technology of Human Services, Vol 29:263-283, 2011.
• A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi and K. Severinson Eklundh Towards Evaluation of Social Robotic Telepresence based on Measures of Social and Spatial Presence 1st Workshop on Social Robotic Telepresence held at HRI 2011, March 2011.
• S. Coradeschi, A. Kristoffersson, A. Loutfi, S. von Rump, A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, J. Gonzalez Towards a Methodology for Longitudinal Evaluation of Social Robotic Telepresence for Elderly 1st Workshop on Social Robotic Telepresence held at HRI 2011, March 2011.
• A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, K. Severinson Eklundh, A.Loutfi Robotic telepresence - a healthcare professionals' perspective Conference Report 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI International 2011) Künstliche Intelligenz, Vol 25(4):361-362,2011
• A. Cesta, S. Coradeschi, G. Cortellessa, J. Gonzalez, L. Tiberio, S. von Rump Enabling Social Interaction Through Embodiment in ExCITE. In ForItAAL. Second Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living, Trento, Italy, Oct 2010.
• A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, M. Lindén, A. Loutfi Robotic telepresence - a healthcare professionals' perspective In proceedings from Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, Umeå, Sweden, Oct 2010.
• A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi User-Centered Evaluation of Robotic Telepresence for an Elderly Population Accepted for 2nd International Workshop on Designing robotic artefacts with user- and experience-centred perspectives held at Nordi-Chi 2010, Oct 2010.
• S. Coradeschi (editor), "Human-Inspired Robots", Trends and Controversies, IEEE Intelligent Systems, July 2006 pp. 74-85.

Anchoring

• M. Daoutis, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi. "Grounding Commonsense Knowledge in Intelligent Systems". International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), to appear.
• M. Daoutis, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi. "Cooperative Knowledge Based Perceptual Anchoring". Int. Journal on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 1(4), 2009.
• M. Daoutis, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi. "Integrating Common Sense in Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems". Proc of the 5th Int Conf on Intelligent Environments (IE09) pp. 212-219. Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
• S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, “A review of Past and Future Trends in Perceptual Anchoring". In P.Fritzche, editor, Tools in Artificial Intelligence, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, 2008.
• L. Karlsson, A. Bouguerra, M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi, A. Saffiotti, "To secure an anchor - a recovery planning approach to ambiguity in perceptual anchoring", AI-Communication Journal, 21(1):1-14, 2008.
• J. Melchert, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Perceptual Anchoring”, the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), October 2007, Patras.
• J. Melchert, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, “Spatial Relations for Perceptual Anchoring" Proc. of the AISB Annual Convention. Newcastle, 2007.
• S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti, "Symbiotic Robotic Systems: Humans, Robots, and Smart Environments". IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 21, Num. 3, 2006.
• M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi, L. Karlsson, and A. Saffiotti, "Recovery Planning for Ambiguous Cases in Perceptual Anchoring". In Proc. of the 20th AAAI Conf. Pittsburgh, 2005.
• C. Galindo, A. Saffiotti, S. Coradeschi, P. Buschka, J.A. Fernandez-Madrigal, and J. Gonzalez, "Multi-Hierarchical Semantic Maps for Mobile Robotics". In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS05), Alberta, Canada, 2005.
• A. Chella and S. Coradeschi and M. Frixione and A. Saffiotti, "Perceptual Anchoring via Conceptual Spaces". In Proc. of the AAAI04 Workhsop on Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data, 2004.
• M. Broxvall and S. Coradeschi and L. Karlsson and A. Saffiotti, "Have another look: On Failures and Recovery Planning in Perceptual Anchoring". In Proc. of the 4th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob-2004), 2004.
• S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti. "An Introduction to the Anchoring Problem". Robotics and Autonomous Systems 43(2-3), 2003. Special issue on perceptual anchoring.
• S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti. "Perceptual Anchoring with Indefinite Descriptions". Proc. of the First Joint SAIS-SSLS Workshop.
• S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti. "Perceptual Anchoring: a key concept for plan execution in embedded systems". In: M Beetz et al. (eds) Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents, LNAI 2466 (Springer, DE, 2002) pp. 89-105.
• S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti. "Perceptual anchoring of symbols for action". In Proc. of of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), Seattle, August 2001.
• S. Coradeschi, D. Driankov, L. Karlsson, and A. Saffiotti. "Fuzzy Anchoring". In Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Melbourne, December 2001.
• Coradeschi S. and Saffiotti A. "Anchoring symbols to sensor data: preliminary report" in Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), Austin, 2000, pages 129-135.
• Coradeschi S. and Saffiotti A. "Anchoring symbolic object description to sensor data. Problem statement.", in "Linköping electronic articles in computer and information science" Vol. 4(1999):nr 9.
• Andersson T., Coradeschi S. and Saffiotti A. "Fuzzy matching of visual cues in an unmanned airborne vehicle.", in "Linköping electronic articles in computer and information science" Vol. 4(1999):nr 8.
• Coradeschi S. and Saffiotti A. "Anchoring symbols to vision data by fuzzy logic", in Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, A. Hunter and S. Parsons editors, LNAI, pages 104-115. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1999.

Artificial olfaction

• Marco Trincavelli, Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi, Bo Soederquist and Per Thunberg, Direct Identification of Bacteria in Blood Culture Samples using an Electronic Nose. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57: 12, 2010, pp. 2884 - 2890.
• M. Trincavelli, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, "Classification of Odours for Mobile Robots Using an Ensemble of Linear Classifiers". Proc. AIP, The American Institute of Physics, Volume 1137, pages 475- 478, 2009.
• M. Trincavelli, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, "Odour classification system for continuous monitoring application". Sens. Actuactors B: Chem. 139(2):265-273, 2009.
• M. Trincavelli, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi, "Classification of Odours for Mobile Robots Using an Ensemble of Linear Classifiers". Proc of the ISOEN Int Symp on Olfaction and Electronic Nose, pp. 475-478, 2009.
• M. Trincavelli, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi. "Online Classification of Gases for Environmental Exploration". Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009.
• M. Trincavelli, S. Coradeschi., A. Loutfi, "Classification of odours with mobile robots based on transient response"". Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2008.
• M. Trincavelli, M. Reggente, S. Coradeschi., H. Ishida, A. Loutfi, A. Lilienthal, "Towards Environmental Monitoring with Mobile Robots". Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2008.
• A. Loutfi and S. Coradeschi, "Odour Recognition for Intelligent Systems". IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23, (1). pages 41- 48, 2008.
• A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi, M. Daoutis, J. Melchert, "Using Knowledge Representation for Perceptual Anchoring in a Robotic System" Int. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 17, (5). pages 925- 944, 2008.
• A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi, A.J. Lilienthal, J. Gonzalez, "Gas Distribution Mapping of Multiple Odour Sources using a Mobile Robot" Robotica, 27, (2). pages 311- 319 2008.
• M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi and A. Saffiotti. "An Ecological Approach to Odour Recognition in Intelligent Environments". Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Orlando, FL, 2006.
• A. Loutfi and S. Coradeschi, "Smell, think and act: A cognitive robot discriminating odours" Autonomous Robots, Volume 20, Number 3, 2006.
• Loutfi A., M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi, and L. Karlsson, "Object Recognition: A new Application for Smelling Robots". In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 52 (4) :272- 289, 2005.
• A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti, "Maintaining Coherent Perceptual Information Using Anchoring". In Proc. of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI05),Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
• A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi, L. Karlsson, M. Broxvall, "Putting Olfaction into Action". In IJCAI-05 Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
• A. Loutfi and S. Coradeschi. "Improving Odour Analysis Through Human Robot Interaction". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005), Barcelona, April 18 - 22, 2005.
• A. Loutfi and S. Coradeschi, "Forming Odour Categories using an Electronic Nose". In Proc. of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI04), Valencia, Spain. 2004.
• A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi, L. Karlsson, M. Broxvall. "Putting Olfaction into Action: Using an Electronic Nose on an Multi-Sensing Mobile Robot". In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS04. Sendai, Japan. 2004.
• Loutfi A., Coradeschi S., and Wide P. "An Introductory concept to 'Human Like' Odor Descriptions by Grounding Linguistic Symbols". In Proc. of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, 21-23 May 2002.
• Loutfi A. and Coradeschi S. "Relying on an Electronic Nose for Odor Localization". In Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, 19-20 May 2002.
• A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi. "Symbolically describing the sensory perceptions from an artificial nose". In STarting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium, STAIRS. Lyon France. 2002.
• A. Loutfi, S.Coradeschi, T. Duckett, P.Wide. "Odor Source Identification by Grounding Linguistic descriptions in an artificial nose". In Proc. SPIE Conference on Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications V. volume 4385 pages 273-282. Orlando, Florida, 2001.

Multi-agent and RoboCup

• Coradeschi S., Karlsson L., Stone P., Kraetzschmar G., Balch T., and Asada M. "Overview of RoboCup-99". In AI Magazine Volume 21, No. 3, Fall 2000.
• Veloso M., Kitano H., Pagello E., Kraetzschmar G., Stone P., Balch T., Asada M., Coradeschi S., Karlsson L., and Fujita M. "Overview of RoboCup-99". In "RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III" Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 1-34, 2000.
• Coradeschi S., Balch T., Kraetzschmar G., Stone P. (editors) "RoboCup-99 team descriptions" (follow the link "participants"). In "Linköping electronic articles in computer and information science" Vol. 4(1999):nr 6 and 7.
• Coradeschi S. and Vidal T. "Highly reactive decision making: a game with Time" in Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'99), Stockholm, pages 1002-1007, August 1999.
• Coradeschi S., Karlsson L. and Nordberg K. "Integration of vision and decision-making in an autonomous airborne vehicle for traffic surveillance", in H. I. Christiansen, editor, Computer Vision Systems, volume 1542 of LNCS, pages 216-230, Berlin, Germany, 1999. Springer.
• Scerri P., Coradeschi S., and Torne A. "A User Oriented System for Developing Behavior Based Agents" in "RoboCup-98: The Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences" Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 173-186, 1999.
• Coradeschi S. and Malec J. "How to make a challenging AI course enjoyable using the RoboCup soccer simulation system", in "RoboCup-98: The Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences" Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), pages 120-124, 1999, and (in Japanese) in the Journal of Robotic Society of Japan, special issue in Robotics and Education, Vol. 16, No. 4, May 1998 Abstract
• Coradeschi S. and Vidal T. "Accounting for temporal evolutions in highly reactive decision-making" in L. Khatib and R. Morris, editors, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME98), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, pages 3-10, 1998.
• Ikonen P., Coradeschi S., Malec J. "Delayed reward in reinforcement learning: an experiment in multi-agent control", presented at Vi Krajowa Konferencja Robotyki, 1998, Poland.
• Coradeschi S. and Karlsson L. "A Behavior-based Approach to Reactivity and Coordination: a Preliminary Report", in "Intelligent Agents" Vol IV Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). 1998 Abstract
• Coradeschi S. and Karlsson L. "A Role-Based Decision-Mechanism for Teams of Reactive and Coordinating Agents", in "RoboCup-97: The First Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences" Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 1998. Abstract. A poster version of this paper has also been presented at IJCAI'97.
• Kitano H., Tambe M., Stone P., Veloso M., Coradeschi S., Osawa E., Matsubara H., Noda I., Asada M. "RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97" in Proceedings of the fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'97), Nagoya, Japan.
• Coradeschi S. and Karlsson L. "A Decision-Mechanism for Reactive and Cooperating Soccer-Playing Agents", in "Linköping electronic articles in computer and information science". Presented at "RoboCup Workshop: Soccer as a problem for Multi-Agent Systems" in the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-96), 9-13 December 96, Kyoto, Japan. Abstract
• Coradeschi S., Karlsson L. and Törne A. "Intelligent Agent for Aircraft Combat Simulation", in Proceedings of the 6th Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation Conference, 23-25 July 96, Orlando, Florida, USA. Extended Abstract
• Coradeschi S. "Reasoning with Misperception in the Features and Fluents Framework", in Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), 12-16 August 96, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract

Silvia Coradeschi, e-mail: silvia.coradeschi + @ + oru.se work phone +46 (19) 30 32 98, fax: +46 (19) 30 34 63 Academy of Science and Technology Örebro University, S-701 82 Örebro, Sweden