Instantiating Real-World Agents
Papers from the 1993 Fall Symposium
Pete Bonasso and David Miller, Program Chairs
Technical Report FS-93-03. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Integrating Reactive & Deliberative Planning in a Household Robot
Jim Blythe and W. Scott Reilly / 6
What Good Is Your Vacuum Robot’s Intelligence?
R. Peter Bonasso / 14
Autonomous Vacuum Cleaners Must Be Bayesian
R. Wade Brittain and Bruce D'Ambrosio / 19
Beyond Intelligent Vacuum Cleaners
Don Brutzman / 23
Design of Commercial Autonomous Service Robots
V. Burhanpurkar / 26
Robovac and the Cat Will Get Along Famously
David Coombs / 34
Multiple, Cooperating, Simple Agents for the Area Coverage Problem
Jill Crisman / 37
Sweep Strategies for a Sensory-Driven, Behavior-based Vacuum Cleaning Agent
Keith L. Doty and Reid R. Harrison / 42
Vacuum-Logic
Jennifer J. Elgot-Drapkin, Sarit Kraus, Michael Miller, Madhura Nirkhe, and Donald Perlis / 51
An Architecture for a Synthetic Vacuum Cleaner
R. James Firby / 55
Design for an Autonomous Agent
Erann Gat / 64
A Fast, Cheap, and Easy Vision System for an Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner
Andrew S. Gavin / 66
Trying to KISS with the Robot Vacuum Cleaner
James Gips and Donald Green / 76
Lightweight Vision -or- How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Camera
Ian Horswill / 79
Exploring Vacuuming as a Domain of Applicability for a Reactive Planning System, or Robot with a Dustbuster
James A. Hendler and Oliver Seeliger / 81
Practical Requirements for a Domestic Vacuum-Cleaning Robot
Frank Jenkins / 85
Spatial Semantic Hierarchy Framework for Vacuuming Robots
Wan-Yik Lee / 91
Making a Clean Sweep: Behavior-Based Vacuuming
Douglas C. MacKenzie and Tucker R. Balch / 93
Cleaning Up with Second Hand Sensing
David P. Miller / 99
MICE and the Science of Vacuuming
David J. Musliner and David Kortenkamp / 101
Fido’s Adventures
Marc G. Slack / 105
Instructing Real-World Vacuumers
Bonnie Webber and Norman Badler / 109
"SOZZY": A Hormone-Driven Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner
Masaki Yamamoto / 116