IofT 1910 W Fall 2006Week 1

What we will do today

Start by looking at various types of robots

Look at new applications for robots Explore where the future will take us

and think about how we can be a part of the future

Rangers and scouts in action

Movies available from distrob.cs.umn.edu

Another agent with state: the Scout

Locate a dark spot Go to the dark spot

(videos not available on the posted version)

Locate Goal behavior

Locate darkest/lightest area Rotate 360º to determine best pixel mean

Guarded motion Do small motions with visual feedback Detect motion with frame difference

Drive to Goal behavior

Locate darkest patch on horizon Feature tracking

behavior Servo robot to patch Stop robot when

“floor” “ceiling” Timeout occurs

Artificial HorizonDarkest Region

An example of an Agent with State: MinDART

Obstacle Avoidance

Purposeful Search

Random Search

Obstacle Avoidance

Target Alignment

Pick Up Target

Detect Other Targets

Obstacle Avoidance

Homing

TargetFound

TargetGrabbed

TargetDropped

GRAB TARGET

SEARCH FOR TARGETS

TAKE TARGET HOME

MinDART demo

or … there are more ways to lose than we might think…

(video not available on the posted version)

Some strange-looking robots

Different configurations of Polybots (from USC)

(videos not on the posted version. Go to USC to find them)

New applications: Robots for demining

Robot from BelgiumRobot from CMU

New applications: Robots for nursing homes

A support system to assist people in remembering to take their medications and do other daily activities

Interface done via a robot

What’s next? Humanoids?

Asimov, from Honda

Where will the future take us?

QRIO, from Sony

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Will humansserve robots?

Where will the future take us? intelligent homes that adapt to the users

and assist them? robots to harvest food? to keep us

company? devices to travel inside our body to

diagnose problems and deliver medical treatments?

programs to manage our investments? to plan our entertainments? to understand our emotions and react accordingly?