Annual Report 2002 - Örebro universitet

46 AASS – Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems
2.2.3 Staff
Alessandro Saffiotti, PhD, is a professor of Computer Science at the Center for Applied
Autonomous Sensors Systems of Örebro University, Sweden, where he heads the Mobile
Robotics Lab. He has previously been a researcher with the University of Pisa (Italy), SRI
International (USA), and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). His research interests
encompass autonomous robotics, soft computing, and non-standard logics for common-sense
reasoning. He has published more than 70 research papers in international journals and
conferences and co-edited the book ``Fuzzy logic techniques for autonomous vehicle
navigation'' (Springer, 2001). He was a chair of the 1999, 2001 and 2003 IJCAI workshops
on ``Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics'', of the AAAI 2001 fall symposium on
``Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data'', and of the 2002 IROS workshop on ``Cooperative
Robotics''. In 2002 he co-organized the First European Summer School on cooperative
robotics. He is the leader of Team Sweden, a national effort in robot soccer comprising about
15 people from four universities. He is a member of IEEE, AAAI, and IAS.
Silvia Coradeschi is an assistant professor at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor
Systems at Örebro University. She has received a master degree in Philosophy at the
university of Florence, a master degree in Computer Science at the university of Pisa, and a
PhD in Computer science at Linköping University. She is a member of the board of trustees
of the RoboCup Federation and was general chair of the Third Robot World Cup Soccer
Games and Conferences (RoboCup-99). She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the
Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) and member
of the board of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. She is
director of the undergraduate studies for the Computer Engineering Division at Örebro
University and she is vice-head of the Technology Department. She has published 18
conference/journal papers and her main research interest is in establishing the connection
(anchoring) between the symbols used to perform abstract reasoning and the physical entities,
which these symbols refer to. She also works in multi-agent systems and cooperative robotics.
Lars Karlsson is an assistant professor at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor
Systems at Örebro University. He received a MSc. degree in Computer Science at Linköping
University in 1993, and a PhD in 1999. He was a co-chair of the Third Robot World Cup
Soccer Games and Conferences (RoboCup-99). He is the coordinator for the MSc program in
Computer Engineering at Örebro University, and he is the director for graduate education in
AASS. He has 18 conference/journal publications and his research interests include planning
under uncertainty, reasoning about actions and integration between reasoning and
action/perception in autonomous systems.
Pär Buschka was born in Gothenburg, Sweden on April 22, 1966. He received the MSc
degree in computer science and engineering in 1996 from Chalmers University of Technology
in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Since autumn 1999 he has been a graduate student at the Center for Applied Autonomous
Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden. His current research interests include
mobile robot localization and navigation using hybrid maps.
Ola Pettersson was born in Falkenberg, Sweden on March 7, 1972. He received the
BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1994, and the MSc degree in electrical engineering in
1995 (specialization in photonics and image analysis), both from Halmstad University,