AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition
Papers from the 2005 AAAI Workshop
Jeffrey Forbes, Workshop Chair; Bill Smart and Sheila Tejada, General Cochairs
Technical Report WS-05-11 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Organizing Committee / vii
Jeffrey Forbes, Bill Smart, and Sheila Tejada
Penn State Abington “Mini Grand Challenge” Robot Competition / 1
Robert Avanzato
Good Wheel Hunting: UMass Lowell’s Scavenger Hunt Robot System / 3
Robert Casey, Andrew Chanler, Munjal Desai, Brenden Keyes, Philip Thoren, Michael Baker, and Holly A. Yanco
Scavenging with a Laptop Robot / 11
Alan Davidson, Julian Mason, Susanna Ricco, Ben Tribelhorn, and Zachary Dodds
Building of a Heterogeneous Segway Soccer Team towards a Peer-to-Peer Human Robot Team / 16
Yang Gu, Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Upending the Uncanny Valley / 24
David Hanson, Andrew Olney, Ismar A. Pereira, and Marge Zielke
KSU Object Recognition / 32
Andrew King, Stephen Stair, Matthew Brubaker, Peter Samland, and David A. Gustafson
NavBot: The Navigational Search-and-Rescue Robot / 35
Matthew Marge, Nader Alrawahi, Murtaza M. Karim, Ayman Sawas, and Chris A. Williams
Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat / 40
Marek Michalowski, Didac Busquets, Carl DiSalvo, Laura Hiatt, Nicholas Melchior, Reid Simmons, and Selma Sabanovic
Socially Interactive Robots for Real Life Use / 45
F. Michaud, C. Côté, D. Létourneau, Y. Brosseau, J.-M. Valin, É. Beaudry, C. Raïevsky, A. Ponchon, P. Moisan, P. Lepage, Y. Morin, F. Gagnon, P. Giguère, A. Duquette, J.-F. Laplante, M.-A. Roux, M.-A. Legault, T. Salter, S. Caron, P. Frenette, M. Lauria, F. Kabanza, and P. Masson
From CMDash'05 to CMRoboBits: Transitioning Multi-Agent Research with AIBOs to the Classroom / 53
Paul E. Rybski and Manuela Veloso
Toward Affective Cognitive Robots for Human-Robot Interaction / 61
M. Scheutz, P. Schermerhorn, C. Middendorff, J. Kramer, Dave Anderson, and Aaron Dingler
Identifying Challenges for Aerial Robots Operating in Near-Earth Environments / 67
Keith W. Sevcik, William E. Green and Paul Y. Oh
Tekkotsu: A Framework for AIBO Cognitive Robotics / 75
David S. Touretzky and Ethan J. Tira-Thompson