The Nineteenth Edition of
Robotics Program at AAAI features the long-standing Robotics Exhibitions as well
as demonstration and
challenges in emerging areas of robotics research. The Robotics Program has a
long tradition of demonstrating innovating research in
robotics at the intersection with artificial intelligence. This year, the
AAAI-10 Robotics Program will feature an open robotics exhibition,
demonstrations for intelligent robotics challenge problems, and a workshop to
present current results and discuss future directions.
Moving forward, the theme for AAAI-10 Robotics is “Enabling Intelligence through
Middleware“. This theme aims to cultivate
challenge experiments to advance specific problems in robotics research and
education. Each challenge is intended to be an
experiment designed to motivate and evaluate an individual function of
artificial intelligence for robotics, similar to the
Semantic Robot Vision
Challenge at AAAI-07. These challenges are meant
to identify problems of interest as well as promote common metrics and
experiments that are reproducible by individual researchers.
The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (abbreviated SRVC) is a research competition that is designed to push the state of the art in image understanding and automatic acquisition of knowledge from large unstructured databases of images (such as those generally found on the web). In this competition, fully autonomous robots receive a text list of objects that they are to find. They use the web to automatically find image examples of those objects in order to learn visual models. These visual models are then used to identify the objects in the robot's cameras.
This The 2010 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be hosting the second annual exhibit and challenge on robot Learning by Demonstration (LbD). The purpose of this event is to bring together research and commercial groups to demonstrate complete platforms performing LbD tasks. Our long-term aim is to define increasingly challenging experiments for future LbD events and greater scientific understanding of the area. We welcome contributions that demonstrate physically embodied robots learning a task or skill from a human teacher.
The ICRA-2010 and AAAI-2010 Small-Scale Manipulation Challenge is designed to highlight advances in embodied intelligence using smaller than human size robots. Robotic chess requires the integration of sensing, planning and actuation and provides an opportunity for performance on a common, well-defined task.
The AAAI 2010 Student Robotics Challenge invites entries by teams or
individuals. Entries consist of one or more physical robots that will
exhibit a subset of these skills:
exploration -- safely traversing the environment
manipulation -- gathering landmarks or other tokens from the environment
modeling -- collecting and reporting information about the surroundings and/or
landmarks
These three skills certainly occupy a central place in embodied AI. However, in order to offer an event that supports existing curricula as much as possible, these tasks are also quite flexible. For example, teams are encouraged to augment the environment with landmarks of their own choosing or design. Teams are also encouraged to choose hardware, software, and algorithmic approaches that enhance and extend class projects, independent studies, and/or research into AI robotics.
This Participants in the 2010 Mobile Manipulation Challenge held in Anchorage AK will showcase their entries. High-level autonomous tasks include object retrieval and dishwasher loading. Additional information on that challenge can be found at http://www.willowgarage.com/mmc10.
This workshop focuses on how to leverage robotics knowledge and research in other communities through the use of standardized middleware. Very few existing robotics development architectures are used outside of the group developing them. In addition, algorithms and approaches developed in one architecture are rarely ported to another, creating a barrier to reusing good solutions and hampers the ability to validate results in more than one environment.
This workshop features a panel discussion led by prominent architecture research groups. The goal is to create a roadmap to common environments and tools. This workshop will also feature presentations by exhibitors in challenge areas that highlight current research.
Important Dates (tentative)