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PROFILE — Unmesh Kurup
Click to Enlarge Photo . . . Postdoctoral Researcher

Psychology Office: FMS 341
Psychology Phone: 412-268-6284
Email: unmeshk@andrew.cmu.edu

Research Interests:

I’m interested in the duality of human cognition that allows us to both respond to the environment and direct our actions towards achieving our goals. I investigate this delicate balance between external and internal constraints using cognitive architectures, particularly ACT-R, and their role in expressing what I call Expectation-Driven Cognition (EDC). EDC models this duality by allowing the agent to react to the mismatch between the world and the agent’s expectations. An agent’s expectations are either predictions about the state of the world (in which case the agent reacts to the environment) or they represent the agent’s intentions (in which case the agent tries to achieves its goals). I work closely with the Robotics Institute to allow models of EDC to be used in robotics as they perform tasks in the external world.



Publications:

Kurup, U, & Lebiere, C. (2012). What can cognitive architectures do for robotics?. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures.

Kurup, U., Lebiere, C. Stentz, A. & Hebert, M. (2012). Using Expectations to Drive Cognitive Behavior. Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Kurup, U., Lebiere, C., Stentz, A. & Hebert, M. (2012). Predicting and Classifying Pedestrian Behavior Using an Integrated Cognitive Architecture. In Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on behavior representation in modeling simulation (BRIMS). Amelia Island, FL.

Kurup, U., Lebiere, C., Stentz, A. & Hebert, M. (2012). Connecting a Cognitive Architecture to Robotic Perception. In Proceedings of the SPIE conference on Defense, Security and Sensing. Volume 8387. Baltimore, MD.

Jentsch, F., Ososky, S., Schuster, D., Fiore, S. Shumaker, R., Lebiere, C., Kurup, U., Oh, H., Stentz, A. (2012). The Importance of Shared Mental Models and Shared Situation Awareness for Transforming Robots from Tools to Teammates. In Proceedings of the SPIE conference on Defense, Security and Sensing. Volume 8387. Baltimore, MD.

Kurup, U., Lebiere, C. & Stentz, A. (2011). Integrating Perception and Cognition for AGI. In Proceedings of the fourth conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Mountaiview, CA.

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