A Robot Architecture for Outdoor Competitions

A Brain Inspired Architecture for an Outdoor Robot Guide

The paper describes the design of a robot architecture which allows the robot to be perceived as a social agent. The proposed architecture autonomously allocates computational resources to different activities via an evaluation of environmental stimuli and robot state based on an emotional model of attention and effort. Moreover, the robot carries out a dramatization of its own work, according ...

COMPETITIONS Robot Competitions : What Did We Learn ?

Robot Competitions Ideal Benchmarks for Robotics Research

In this paper, I argue for the use of robotic competitions as benchmarks for robotics research. By providing a common task to be solved at a specific place and a specific time, competitions avoid some of the difficulties arising when evaluating robotics research in the own lab. Competitions also bring together multiple research groups working on the same problem. This fosters the exchange of id...

A Retrospective of the AAAI Robot Competitions

by the authors at the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96). The piece begins with a short history of the competition, then discusses the technical challenges and the political and cultural issues associated with bringing it off every year. We also cover the science and engineering involved with the robot tasks and the educational and commercial aspects of the comp...

A Domestic Assistive Robot Developed Through Robot Competitions∗

Scientific robot competitions are considered a powerful drive for advancing the state-of-the-art in robotics research and development. This paper describes the research objectives and technical information of the SocRob@Home team who has been representing the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) from the Instituto Superior Técnico since 1998 in different robot competitions. This paper discu...