INVERSE

The vision of INVERSE is to endow robots with the cognitive capabilities needed to synthesise, monitor and execute inverse plans from direct tasks defined in terms of human-understandable instructions and procedures. INVERSE’s approach to synthesise reusable and robust plans implies an enhanced ability of the robot

• to understand its surroundings, including human intentions and needs, in order to determine what action the robot has to perform and how the environment is expected to change as a result;
• to represent robot knowledge in a flexible structure, specifically designed to facilitate execution monitoring, recovery from failures and task inversion;
• to adapt robot knowledge to different domains in order to synthesise effective solutions for direct and inverse tasks and to robustly react to the intrinsic variability of non-repetitive tasks.