Designing Robot Competitions that Promote AI Solutions: Lessons Learned Competing and Designing
نویسندگان
چکیده
Robotics competitions are an educational tool at the middle school, high school, and university levels. The layout, rules, and reward systems of these competitions galvanize students to a specific solution space. From our experiences competing-in and designing such competitions, open-loop, low feedback strategies tend to dominate the winner's circle. If we want competitions to emphasize solutions spaces that include AI-type robot control, contest designs need to favor closed-loop, high feedback strategies. Game elements that encourage such designs are discussed.
منابع مشابه
Using Robot Competitions to Promote Intellectual Development
three international mobile robot competitions as the foundation for educational projects in undergraduate and graduate computer science courses. The three competitions—(1) AAAI Mobile Robot, (2) AUVS Unmanned Ground Robotics, and (3) IJCAI RoboCup—were used in different years for an introductory undergraduate robotics course, an advanced graduate robotics course, and an undergraduate practicum ...
متن کاملCompetitive Benchmarking: Lessons Learned from the Trading Agent Competition
stimulated by well-designed competitions that tackle intriguing and often very complex problems. Chess, poker, stock trading, real-time strategy games, robot soccer, robot rescue or planning, and autonomous vehicles are among the most well known. Adaptability, proactiveness, and interoperability are essential characteristics of these games. Many of these competitions focus on development of rat...
متن کاملAdvancing Artificial Intelligence through Minimalist Humanoid Robotics
While the robots that most quickly come to mind to the general public are those with the most elaborate features and movements, those that are most useful in advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) are very different. Minimalist robots are inexpensive and therefore more broadly available for research and educational purposes, but also force the researcher to rely on good,...
متن کاملRoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation Leagues
The RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation competitions have been held since 2000. The experience gained during these competitions has increased the maturity level of the field, which allowed deploying robots after real disasters (e.g. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster). This article provides an overview of these competitions and highlights the state of the art and the lessons
متن کاملLessons Learnt from Developing the Embodied AI Platform CAESAR for Domestic Service Robotics
In this paper we outline the development of CAESAR, a domestic service robot with which we participated in the robot competition RoboCup@Home for many years. We sketch the system components, in particular the parts relevant to the high-level reasoning system, that make CAESAR an intelligent robot. We report on the development and discuss the lessons we learnt over the years designing, developin...
متن کامل