AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition
Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop
Bob Avanzato, Paul Rybski, and Jeffrey Forbes, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-15 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Introductory Computer Science with Robots / 1
Debra Burhans, R. Mark Meyer, Patricia VanVerth, David Puehn, Victoria Steck, and John Paul Wiejaczka
KSU Willie in Scavenger Hunt at AAAI '06 / 4
Aaron Chavez, Michael Marlen, Chris Meyer, Andrew King, Joseph Lutz, and David Gustafson
The WURDE Robotics Middleware and RIDE Multi-Robot Tele-Operation Interface / 10
Frederick Heckel, Tim Blakely, Michael Dixon, Chris Wilson, and William D. Smart
Claytronics Demo: A Novel Latching Mechanism for Macroscale Robots / 15
M. Emre Karagozler, Jason Campbell, Mike De Rosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Brian Kirby, and Tze Chang Nz
Spartacus, Scientific Robot Reporter / 17
F. Michaud, D. Létourneau, M. Fréchette, E. Beaudry, and F. Kabanza
Mixed-Initiative Interactions for Mobile Robot Search / 25
Curtis W. Nielsen, David J. Bruemmer, Douglas A. Few, and Miles C. Walton
CMAssist: A RoboCup@Home Team / 30
Paul E. Rybski, Kevin Yoon, Jeremy Stolarz, and Manuela Veloso
Competing in the AAAI Scavenger Hunt with a Budget Robot Built of Commodity Parts / 37
John F. Santore and Anvita Verma
A Semi-autonomous Interactive Robot / 40
B. Schelsinger, M. Mensch, C. Rindosh, J. Votta, and Y. Wang
DIARC: A Testbed for Natural Human-Robot Interaction / 45
P. Schermerhorn, J. Kramer, T. Brick, D. Anderson, A. Dingler, and M. Scheutz
Collective Construction Using Lego Robots / 53
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, and Radhika Nagpal
Project DIAS: Drexel's Integrated ATV System / 58
Keith W. Sevcik, Shreyansh Shah, Jason Collins, Andrew Moran, Robert Ellenberg, Michael Perreca, and Paul Y. Oh
Educational Robotics in Brooklyn / 63
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, M. Q. Azhar, and Valerie Andrewlevich
Educational Robots: Three Models for the Research of Learning Theories and Human-Robot Interaction / 70
Sheila Tejada, Neil Traft, Malcolm Hutson, Harold Bufford, Matthew Dooner, Joshua Hanson, Anthony Radler, and George Mauer
Roomba and Mac OS X: Cross-platform Vision and Robotics for AI / 77
Ben Tribelhorn and Zachary Dodds
Interactive Mobile Aquatic Probing System (IMAPS) / 83
William Weisnet, William Collani, and Michael Russell
A Scalable Architecture for Multi Agent Vision Based Robot Scavenging / 89
Kamil Wnuk, Brian Fulkerson, and Jeremi Sudol