Abstract: Why is our understanding of sensorimotor control behind our understanding of perception? I will talk about structural differences between perception and control, and how these differences can be mitigated to help advance sensorimotor control systems. Judicious use of simulation can play an important role and I will describe some simulation tools that we have built and deployed. Much of the talk will focus on autonomous driving as a compelling application domain for the study of coupled perception and control.

Bio: Vladlen Koltun is a Senior Principal Researcher and the director of the Intelligent Systems Lab at Intel. His lab conducts high-impact basic research on intelligent systems. Vladlen received a PhD in 2002 for new results in theoretical computational geometry, spent three years at UC Berkeley as a postdoc in the theory group, and joined the Stanford Computer Science faculty in 2005 as a theoretician. He joined Intel in 2015 to establish a new lab devoted to basic research.

Host: Kris Kitani

For Appointments: Stephanie Matvey (smatvey@cs.cmu.edu)