designing intelligent robot
29 Design of Low-Cost Equipment for Cognitive Robot Research
MARK I DEVICE A minimal:robot,Icnown as Freddy, has been constructed with the aim of connecting a usable device on-line to the Department's lc L 4130, under the Multi-Pop time-sharing system, and discovering the snags. (See figure 1). Freddy Mark 1 and his world Various technical problems arise when such a device runs free. It is much easier to anchor it and allow it to push its world about. Our present world is a three-foot diameter sandwich of hardboard and polystyrene which is light and rigid. Provided that the weights of robot and slab are chosen correctly, a wide range of movements is possible.
Reports of the AAAI 2012 Spring Symposia
Alani, Harith (The Open University) | An, Bo (University of Southern California) | Jain, Manish (University of Southern California) | Kido, Takashi (Rikengenesis) | Konidaris, George (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Lawless, William (Paine College) | Martin, David (Apple Computer) | Pantofaru, Caroline (Willow Garage, Inc.) | Sofge, Donald (Naval Research Laboratory) | Takadama, Keiki (University of Electro-Communications) | Tambe, Milind (University of Southern California) | Vitvar, Tomas (Czech Technical University)
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science, was pleased to present the 2012 Spring Symposium Series, held Monday through Wednesday, March 26–28, 2012 at Stanford University, Stanford, California USA. The six symposia held were AI, The Fundamental Social Aggregation Challenge (cochaired by W. F. Lawless, Don Sofge, Mark Klein, and Laurent Chaudron); Designing Intelligent Robots (cochaired by George Konidaris, Byron Boots, Stephen Hart, Todd Hester, Sarah Osentoski, and David Wingate); Game Theory for Security, Sustainability, and Health (cochaired by Bo An and Manish Jain); Intelligent Web Services Meet Social Computing (cochaired by Tomas Vitvar, Harith Alani, and David Martin); Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness (cochaired by Takashi Kido and Keiki Takadama); and Wisdom of the Crowd (cochaired by Caroline Pantofaru, Sonia Chernova, and Alex Sorokin). The papers of the six symposia were published in the AAAI technical report series.
Designing Intelligent Robots for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue
Kruijff, Geert-Jan M. (DFKI GmbH) | Colas, Francis (ETH Zurich) | Svoboda, Tomas (Czech Technical University) | Diggelen, Jurriaan van (TNO) | Balmer, Patrick (BlueBotics) | Pirri, Fiora (University La Sapienza) | Worst, Rainer (Fraunhofer IAIS)
The paper describes ongoing integrated research on designing intelligent robots that can assist humans in making a situation assessment during Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) missions. These robots (rover, microcopter) are deployed during the early phases of an emergency response. The aim is to explore those areas of the disaster hotzone which are too dangerous or too difficult for a human to enter at that point. This requires the robots to be "intelligent" in the sense of being capable of various degrees of autonomy in acting and perceiving in the environment. At the same time, their intelligence needs to go beyond mere task-work. Robots and humans are interdependent. Human operators are dependent on these robots to provide information for a situation assessment. And robots are dependent on humans to help them operate (shared control) and perceive (shared assessment) in what are typically highly dynamic, largely unknown environments. Robots and humans need to form a team. The paper describes how various insights from robotics and Artificial Intelligence are combined, to develop new approaches for modeling human robot teaming. These approaches range from new forms of modeling situation awareness (to model distributed acting in dynamic space), human robot interaction (to model communication in teams), flexible planning (to model team coordination and joint action), and cognitive system design (to integrate different forms of functionality in a single system).
Robotologic
A robot, in order to act intelligently, must be able to reason from facts which its sensors detect to conclusions which govern its actions. This reasoning process is so central to human intelligence that it seems immediately relevant to the problems of robot design to consider its properties, how it might be analysed and imitated.
Design of low-cost equipment for cognitive robot research
A minimal:robot,Icnown as Freddy, has been constructed with the aim of connecting a usable device online to the Department's lc L 4130, under the Multi-Pop time-sharing system, and discovering the snags. (See figure 1). Various technical problems arise when such a device runs free. It is much easier to anchor it and allow it to push its world about. Our present world is a three-foot diameter sandwich of hardboard and polystyrene which is light and rigid.
Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence
A computer program capable of acting intelligently in the world must have a general representation of the world in terms of which its inputs are interpreted. Designing such a program requires commitments about what knowledge is and how it is obtained. Thus, some of the major traditional problems of philosophy arise in artificial intelligence. More specifically, we want a computer program that decides what to do by inferring in a formal language that a certain strategy will achieve its assigned goal. This requires formalizing concepts of causality, ability, and knowledge. Such formalisms are also considered in philosophical logic. The first part of the paper begins with a philosophical point of view that seems to arise naturally once we take seriously the idea of actually making an intelligent machine.