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The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn. The group, headed by Professor Armin B. Cremers, studies the design of intelligent robotic and software agents. It has been founded in January 1994 by Prof. Armin B. Cremers, Prof. Joachim Buhmann and Prof. Sebastian Thrun and was originally called the RHINO-Project. The next generation of intelligent robotic and software agents will be characterized by being more general than the current generation --- in at least three respects. First, they will be able to successfully carry out multiple, diverse, and possibly interfering tasks in changing and partly unknown environments. Second, they will be able to improve their performance by autonomously adapting their control software for the kinds of tasks they are given and the environments they are to operate in. Third, they will be able to robustly perceive a substantially larger part of their environment. We believe that these aspects of generality cannot be achieved without the robots being capable of planning their intended course of action based on foresight and without them being able to autonomously learn better control routines from experience. To achieve more generality in these respects, the group conducts research in: |