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.
Monday, July 12th
Vinings I
8:30 Welcome - Andrea Thomaz
8:45 DARPA Perspecticves (Bob Kohout - DARPA)
9:15 NSF Perspectives (Sven Koenig - NSF)
9:45 Citizen Roboticists (Dustin Heaton- Alabama)
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15 Robot Operating System (Morgan Quigley - Stanford)
10:30 YARP (Giorgio Metta-University of Genova)
10:45 BotSense: An open-source middleware framework for uniting and enabling intelligent robotic systems (Kim Wheeler - Road Narrows)
11:00 Building large robot systems with LCM (Edwin Olson-University of Michigan)
11:15 Tekkotsu (Dave Touretzky-CMU)
11:30 CAST (Nick Hawes-University of Birmingham)
11:45 Open Discussion
Noon-1:30 Lunch
1:30 TDB (Morgan Quigley - Stanford University)
1:45 Learning by Demonstration (Sonia Chernova-Co-Chair)
1:45 Challenge Overview (Sonia Chernova)
2:00 Efficient Apprenticeship Learning with Smart Humans (Kaushik Subramanian, Michael Littman-Rutgers)
2:10 Reproducibility for Shared Experimentation and Learning from Demonstration (Sara Osentoski, Chad Jenkins-Brown University)
2:20 Increasing Biped Walk Robustness Through Playback and Corrective Demonstration (Çetin Meriçli, Manuela Veloso-CMU)
2:30 Learning by Demonstration: Spectrum Curricula (Jacob Beal, Alice Leung, Robert Laddag-BNN Technologies)
2:40 Robotics Education Introduction (Zach Dodds-HMC)
2:45 Preview PIRE challenge (Paul Oh-Drexel/Doug Blank-Bryn Mawr)
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15 PixelLaser: range-to-obstacles from image texture (Max Korbel, Michael Leece, Kenny Lei, Nicole Lesperance, Steve Matsumoto, Zach Dodds-HMC)
3:25 Calliope: Mobile Manipulation from Commodity Components (Owen Watson)
3:35 Shake Time (M Vazquez-CMU)
3:45 A Simulator for Teaching Robotics Programming using the iRobot Create (Andrew Hettlinger, Matthew R. Boutell-Rose Hullman)
3:55 The IMP: An Intelligent Mobile Projector (Keith O'Hara-Bard)
4:05 Developing a Framework for Team-based Robotics Research (Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, and Susan Epstein School: City University of New York -CUNY)
4:15 An Intensive Introductory Robotics Course Without Prerequisites (Julian Mason, Gavin Taylor-Duke)
4:25 PREOP (Monica Anderson-Alabama)
4:35 Preview Small-scale Chess Challenge (Dave Touretzky-CMU)
4:50 Wrap up
5:00 Adjourn
Tuesday, July 13th
Vinings I
10-4:30pm - Robotics Exhibit (Learning by Demonstration, Small-scale Manipulation, Mobile Manipulation)
10:00am Small Scale Manipulation - Chess Challenge Round 1
1:00pm Small Scale Manipulation - Chess Challenge Round 2
4:00pm Small Scale Manipulation - Chess Challenge Round 3
Vinings II
10-4:30pm - Robotics Education Exhibit (Learning by Demonstration, Small-scale Manipulation, Mobile Manipulation)
Wednesday, July 14th
Vinings I
10-4:30pm - Robotics Exhibit (Learning by Demonstration, Small-scale Manipulation, Mobile Manipulation)
4-5:30pm Learning By Demonstration Challenge
Vinings II
10-4:30pm - Robotics Education Exhibit (Learning by Demonstration, Small-scale Manipulation, Mobile Manipulation)
(http://web.media.mit.edu/~
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.
http://aaai-robotics.ning.
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.
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/aaairoboted/
This venue offers an accessible and flexible opportunity for undergraduate, early graduate, or pre-college student teams to design, implement, and demonstrate an autonomous robotic system. The tasks involved can span physically-embodied AI: exploration, interaction, and learning within an unknown environment. In the long run, we hope to motivate hands-on AI robotics investigation both for its own sake and in service to other academic disciplines and educational goals.
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)
Important Dates (tentative - refer to individual websites for updates)