AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
William D. Smart, Workshop Chair, Tucker Balch, Competition General Chair, Holly Yanco, Competition General Chair
Technical Report WS-02-18 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / vi
GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge / 1
Reid Simmons, Dani Goldberg, Adam Goode, Michael Montemerlo, Nicholas Roy, Brennan Sellner, Chris Urmson, Alan Schultz, Myriam Abramson, William Adams, Amin Atrash, Magda Bugajska, Michael Coblenz, Matt MacMahon, Dennis Perzanowski, Ian Horswill, Robert Zubek, David Kortenkamp, Bryn Wolfe, Tod Milam, and Bruce Maxwell
Kansas State University’s Autonomous Robot Borivoj: An Entry in the AAAI2002’s Robot Host Competition / 15
Vojtech Derbek, Jan Kraus, Tomas Tichy, and David Gustafson
A Modular Software Architecture for Heterogeneous Robot Tasks / 18
Julie Corder, Oliver Hsu, Andrew Stout, and Bruce A. Maxwell
Mabel: Building a Robot Designed for Human Interaction / 24
Jonathan Schmid, Thomas Kollar, Eric Meisner, Victoria Sweetser, David Feil-Seifer, Chris Brown, Ben Atwood, Jenine Turner, Diana Calarese, Scott Cragg, Habib Chaudhary, and Mike Isman
Assessment of the AAAI USAR Robotics Competition / 32
Ron Rogers
Dynamic-Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue / 33
David J. Bruemmer, Donald D. Dudenhoeffer, and Julie L. Marble
A Pragmatic Approach to Robot Rescue: The Keystone Fire Brigade / 38
Jacky Baltes and John Anderson
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: A Marsupial Team for Urban Search and Rescue / 44
Frank Dellaert, Tucker Balch, Michael Kaess, Ram Ravichandran, Fernando Alegre, Marc Berhault, Robert McGuire, Ernest Merrill, Lilia Moshkina, and Daniel Walker
Blue Swarm Sentinel and Blue Swarm 2 / 50
Asti Bhatt, Brandon Boldt, Scott Skousen, and Dan Stormont
The Scarabs RoboCup 2002 Rescue Robot Team / 53
K. Bird, J. Fonda-Bonardi, R. Fooroghi, I. Forte, D. Goodwin, J. Griffin-Roosth, V. Griffin, H. Liebowitz, M. Pettengil, N. Phillips, and M. Randall
The Mr.ArmHandOne Project: A Mazes Roamer Robot / 56
M. Cialente, A. Finzi, I. Mentuccia, F. Pirri, M. Pirrone, M. Romano, and F. Savelli
The Crystal Robot: Implementation and Demonstration / 65
Robert Fitch, Zack Butler, and Daniela Rus
Identity Emulation (IE): Bio-inspired Facial Expression Interfaces for Emotive Robots / 72
D. Hanson, G. Pioggia, S. Dinelli, F. Di Francesco, R. Francesconi, and D. De Rossi
MinDART: A Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval System / 83
Paul E. Rybski, Amy Larson, Heather Metcalf, Devon Skyllingstad, Harini Veeraraghavan, and Maria Gini
The Personal Rover / 92
Emily Falcone, Rachel Gockley, Eric Porter, and Illah Nourbakhsh
RoboCupJunior: A Vehicle for Enhancing Technical Literacy / 108
Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons
ROSEY the Robot / 119
Christopher Dac Le
I Comici Roboti: Performing the Lazzo of the Statue from the Commedia Dell'Arte / 124
Karl R. Wurst
Architecture to Enable Dynamic Reorganization of Cooperative Robotic Teams / 129
Eric Matson
Human Detection by Tartan Swarm / 136
Daniel M. Vogel, Alexander L. Gutierrez, Christopher C. Atwood, Wayne K. Chan, and Animesh S. Kejriwal
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