Simple Research Mission Statement

Here's a stab at summarizing a research mission. Focus is hard for me, so this seemed like a good exercise. I'd like to focus on these things:

• Everyday, general-purpose robots.


• Real-time, multi-objective, very high (10s, 100s, 1000s?) degree-of-freedom decision making in dynamic environments.


• Preference to automatic learning over hard-coded engineering. Also, parameter elimination.


• Extract research from practical application rather than hoping theory will be practical. In other words, how do I know I'm asking the right questions?

Maybe I can refer back to this or post updates (like these bullets) as needed.