GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge

Simmons, Reid; Goldberg, Dani; Goode, Adam; Montemerlo, Michael; Roy, Nicholas; Sellner, Brennan; Urmson, Chris; Schultz, Alan C.; Abramson, Myriam; Adams, William; Atrash, Amin; Bugajska, Magdalena D.; Coblenz, Michael; MacMahon, Matt; Perzanowski, Dennis; Horswill, Ian; Zubek, Robert; Kortenkamp, David; Wolfe, Bryn; Milam, Tod; Maxwell, Bruce

doi:10.21236/ada434943

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“…RoCKIn@Work focuses on how robots could help European industry in the future [5], while RoCKIn@Home looks at developing domestic service robots [6]. The AAAI Robot Challenge [7] comprises of a benchmarking competition for human robot interaction that involves paper presentation by participating robots and a second benchmarking competition for search and rescue robots. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored some autonomous vehicle competitions [8] wherein the DARPA Grand Challenge [9] aims at developing and benchmarking autonomous robotic cars with a larger objective of minimizing traffic fatalities.…”

Section: Robotics Competitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

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This paper presents a robot design competition called 'IDC Robocon' as an effective tool for engineering education. The International Design Contest (IDC) Robocon competition has several benefits in creating a meaningful design experience for undergraduate engineering students and includes an international flavour as participants of the competition hail from all around the world. The problem posed to the contestants is to design, build and test mobile robots that are capable of accomplishing a task. A primary goal of the competition is to provide undergraduates with a meaningful design experience with an emphasis on mechanical design, electronic circuits and programming. It is hoped that by placing the emphasis on the design, the course will encourage more undergraduates to go into the field of engineering design. This paper presents the latest 2015 IDC Robocon (the 26th edition) in detail and discusses course of events and results in terms of the educational experience. In this competition, a simulated space problem of cleaning the debris from orbit is proposed for the latest IDC Robocon competition. Teams, comprising of students from multiple countries work together to develop robotic systems to compete with each other in collecting the foam balls and delivering them to the rotating the holder.

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Section: Robotics Competitionsmentioning

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IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

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“…Alternatively, the virtual character can be visualised on top of the robot, as a bust protruding from the robot's body, or even figuring as the robot's driver-as in some demonstrations of the MiRA system [28]. In every case, in contrast to robots with virtual characters visualised on a screen placed on top of them, such as GRACE [60] and VALERIE [25], the mixed reality characters are visible from all angles and are not subjected to diminishing visibility at greater distances.…”

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Where Robots and Virtual Agents Meet

Holz

Dragone

O’Hare

2008

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Traditionally, social interaction research has concentrated on either fully virtually embodied agents (e.g. embodied conversational agents) or fully physically embodied agents (e.g. robots). For some time, however, both areas have started augmenting their agents' capabilities for social interaction using ubiquitous and intelligent environments.We are placing different agent systems for social interaction along Milgram's Reality-Virtuality Continuumaccording to the degree they are embodied in a physical, virtual or mixed reality environment-and show systems that follow the next logical step in this progression, namely social interaction in the middle of Milgram's continuum, that is, agents richly embodied in the physical and virtual world. This paper surveys the field of social interaction research with embodied agents with a particular view towards their embodiment forms and highlights some of the advantages and issues associated with the very recent field of social interaction with mixed reality agents.

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“…Turns can be viewed as changes in orientation. These considerations led to four basic types of NIUs in our hierarchy: moves, 1 turns, positions, and orientations. The distinction is not always clear since moving can result in a change of orientation and turning in a practical setting can imply a significant shift in position.…”

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“…A number of related systems designed to operate in robotic and domestic environment have been described in the literature (e.g., [1]- [5]). In contrast to this previous work that involves sensor-derived (and thus noisy and incomplete) knowledge of the world, we consider the interpretation of relatively complex spatial language by assuming high-level knowledge of the entire map and all landmarks are available to the system.…”

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Interpretation of Spatial Language in a Map Navigation Task

Levit¹,

Roy

2007

IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern. B

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Abstract-We have developed components of an automated system that understands and follows navigational instructions. The system has prior knowledge of the geometry and landmarks of specific maps. This knowledge is exploited to infer complex paths through maps based on natural language descriptions. The approach is based on an analysis of verbal commands in terms of elementary semantic units that are composed to generate a probability distribution over possible spatial paths in a map. An integration mechanism based on dynamic programming guides this language-to-path translation process, ensuring that resulting paths satisfy continuity and smoothness criteria. In the current implementation, parsing of text into semantic units is performed manually. Composition and interpretation of semantic units into spatial paths is performed automatically. In the evaluations, we show that the system accurately predicts the speakers' intended meanings for a range of instructions. This paper provides building blocks for a complete system that, when combined with robust parsing technologies, could lead to a fully automatic spatial language interpretation system. Index Terms-Human-machine interaction, natural language processing, navigational instructions, spatial language understanding.

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GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge

Cited by 50 publications

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IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

Where Robots and Virtual Agents Meet

Interpretation of Spatial Language in a Map Navigation Task

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