Project R3-[Q-Shape]


Reasoning about Paths, Shapes, and Configuration


Principal Investigators

Prof. Christian Freksa, Ph.D.
Dr. Diedrich Wolter

Research Assistants

Dr. Frank Dylla
Lutz Frommberger
Jae Hee Lee

Student Assistants

Hassib Abdulsamad

Xiaohua Du

Contact

qshape@informatik.uni-bremen.de

Project Site

http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/project/r3/

Summary

R3-[Q-Shape] pursues the development of techniques to efficiently and robustly solve complex spatial tasks and aim at advancing formal techniques to real-world problems. In particular, we investigate techniques of qualitative spatial representation and reasoning to obtain an adequate level of abstraction and effective means for a task at hand. Three ways to achieve abstractions are fostered: aspectualization, coarsening, and conceptual classification. We address navigation and recognition tasks by designing suitable underlying representations and neighborhood- and constraint-based reasoning methods.

See the Q-Shape project site for more information.

Subject Areas

Cognitive Science
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Robot Navigation and Mapping