AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Alan C. Schultz, Chair
Technical Report WS-00-09
50 pp., $25.00
ISBN 978-1-57735-140-5
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Traditionally, the workshop for the AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition is held the last day of the NCAI conference, after the robot competition events and exhibitions have concluded. This allows the participants to discuss their actual entries in the robot events, and to talk about the results and lessons learned. The events of the Ninth AAAI Robot Competition and exhibition, held July 30 - August 3, 2000, included the popular "Hors d'oeuvres Anyone?" and Challenge competition events, and a new competition event, "Urban Search and Rescue." The exhibition included groups that wanted to demonstrate work outside of the robot competitions. Students and faculty from University of Arkansas, Northwestern University, Universite de Sherbrooke, Swarthmore College, University of South Florida, and Kansas State University presented research related to contest events. Topics included architectural issues such as integration of high-level cognition and low-level behaviors, implementation of arbitrators for subsumption-like architectures, innovative vision approaches for face tracking and recognition, and human detection using fused sensor data. Human-robot interaction issues and interface implementations were discussed as well.