| When: | Monday, May 10th @ 10am for Invited Guests and 1pm for the Public |
| Where: | ILS conference room (SS262) |
| What: | Join us for presentations by special guests from UAlbany and CMU and stay to see the Sony AIBO talk, navigate, and play ball during students' experimental research project demonstrations! |
The emergence of commercial-off-the shelf robotic devices capable of performing non-trivial functions, such as speech, vision and motion (e.g. from SONY), offers a tremendous opportunity to embed research on intelligent systems into such autonomous robotic devices. For example, the SONY's Aibo is a mass produced robot that can walk, talk and listen, but while these capabilities are impressive, today's robots still can't effectively communicate with people.
This course is offered to involve interested graduate and undergraduate students in the process of kicking off robotics research at SUNY Albany. This is a hands-on seminar where we will be developing demonstrations for 3 different applications involving SONY Aibo robotic dogs. Several Aibos plus SONY computers will be available. We will be using open source SDK for programming. The culmination will be RoboShow Symposium at SUNY Albany in early May 2004.
The course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students in computer science. Very strong programming skills, motivation and drive, as well as interest in robotics are required. Some background in Artificial Intelligence may be helpful. Graduate students may consider taking CSI-535 Introduction to AI in parallel to this seminar.
Project 1: An Interactive Robotic Companion. We will develop a robotic system to supplement the life of a person, such as an elderly, by providing a companion that reminds of appointments, medication, answers questions.
Project 2: Automatic Map Building. In this project we will create a robot that can explore and map its environment, e.g., part of the building.
Project 3: Collaborative robots. We will develop a limited demonstration of team-working robots playing a ball, in preparation for a possible RoboCup entry.
| Feb 13 | Prof. Yang -- Collaboration |
| Feb 20 | Group meeting |
| Feb 27 | Presentation - Sensors (Min) |
| Mar 5 | Presentation - Vision (Russ/Rob) |
| Mar 12 | Presentation - Localization (Brian/Ryan) |
| Mar 19 | Presentation - Planning (Michelle) |
| Mar 26 | Midterm review (graded) |
| Apr 2 | Presentation - Multi-agent (Chris/Adam) |
| Apr 9 | Class Cancelled - Spring Break |
| Apr 16 | Presentation - Wireless (Chris/Shawn) |
| Apr 23 | Prep |
| Apr 28 | Draft of Final Reports Due to Coordinators |
| Apr 29 | Prep for Final Review |
| Apr 30 | Final Review |
| May 5 | Final Reports Due to Coordinators |
| May 7-9 | Prep for RoboShow |
| May 10 | *RoboShow* |
RoboShow Schedule
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Introduction |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | 3 Student presentations |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Project Demonstrations |
| 12.00 - 1.00 | Lunch Break |
| 1.00 - 2.00 | Scott Lenser (CMU) |
| 2.00 - 3.00 | Public Demo |
| 3.00 - 4.00 | Huahai Yang (UAlbany/ILS member) "Agent-assisted collaborative navigation and its impact on human spatial knowledge acquisition" |
Project 1
Description (ppt)
Prof. Andy Haas & Nobu Shimizu
Brian King
Shawn Turner -- st2750@albany.edu
Ryan N
Michael Groves
Project 2
Description (ppt)
Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski & Min Wu
MingYuan Duan
Yue Li
Zhouxuan Teng
XiaoYu Zheng
Project 3
Description (ppt)
Prof. Huahai Yang & Rob Salkin
Chris Nawrot
Russell Goldstein
Adam Salvatori