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The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002) Robot Challenge is part of an annual series of robot challenges and competitions. It is intended to promote the development of robot systems that interact intelligently with humans in natural environments. The Challenge task calls for a robot to attend the AAAI conference, which includes registering for the conference and giving a talk about itself. In this article, we review the task requirements, introduce the robots that participated at AAAI-2002 and describe the strengths and weaknesses of their performance. The purpose of the challenge is to promote the development of robot systems that interact intelligently with humans in natural environments.

The Eleventh Annual AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition was held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in August 2002. This article describes each of the events that were held: Robot Challenge, Robot Exhibition, Robot Host, and Robot Rescue. Usually those attendees with names beginning AL are encouraged to line up behind one desk, and M-Z line up behind another. However, the 2002 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence included another desk: Robots! Some robots at the 2002 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition actually registered for the conference on their own.

The main objectives of the challenge are to (1) provide a task that will demonstrate a high level of intelligence and autonomy for robots acting in a natural, peopled, dynamic environment; (2) stimulate state-of-the-art robotics research to address this task; and (3) use robot demonstrations to educate the public about the exciting and difficult challenges of robotics research. The challenge was designed as a problem that would probably need a decade to achieve adequately. When the challenge was designed, it was anticipated that no single research institution would have adequate resources to meet the challenge on its own. The challenge task is for a robot to participate in the American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference on Artificial Intelligence--the robot must find the registration booth and register, interacting with people as needed, then with a map in hand, find its way to a location in time to give a technical talk about itself. Ideally, the robot should be given no more information than any other participant arriving in a new city to attend a major technical conference.

The Twelfth Annual American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Robot Competition and Exhibition was held in Acapulco, Mexico, in conjunction with the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The events included the Robot Host and Urban Search and Rescue competitions, the AAAI Robot Challenge, and the Robot Exhibition. In the Robot Host event, the robots had to act as mobile information servers and guides to the exhibit area of the conference. In the Urban Search and Rescue competition, teams attempted to find victims in a simulated disaster area using teleoperated, semiautonomous, and autonomous robots. The AAAI Robot Challenge is a noncompetitive event where the robots attempt to attend the conference by locating the registration booth, registering for the conference, and then giving a talk to an audience.

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