Video Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Mobile Robot Exhibition

    July 26-30, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin

    Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

    Exhibition Co-Chairs: Tucker Balch and Karen Haigh
    Proceedings Editors Don Allison and Tucker Balch

    Available at $25.00 from AAAI by mail, e-mail or fax. Please use this form to order.


    00:30
    The CMUnited-97 Small Robot Team
    Manuela Veloso, Peter Stone, Kwun Han and Sorin Achim
    Carnegie Mellon University
    www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer

    08:40
    Beast and Sniky the Mechanical Snake
    Laurent Chabin
    ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/laurent_chabin

    12:20
    TBMin2: Trailer Backing Mini-Robot 2
    Dean F. Hougen, Paul Rybski, Maria Gini and James Slagle
    Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Laboratory
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Minnesota
    www.cs.umn.edu/Research/airvl/minirob.html

    18:00
    The Cog Project
    Rodney Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Robert Irie, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati and Matthew Williamson
    MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
    www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cog

    22:30
    Babu and Pi: Lexicon Learning Robots
    Paul Vogt
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab
    arti.vub.ac.be/~paul

    24:40
    Lunar Rover '97: Nomad
    Mark Maimone and Reid Simmons
    The Robotics Institute
    Carnegie Mellon University
    www.ri.cmu.edu/lri

    29:35
    Kismet: an Expressive Robot
    Cynthia Breazeal and Brian Scassellati
    MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
    www.ai.mit.edu/projects/kismet

    34:10
    Xavier: an Office Delivery Robot
    Karen Zita Haigh
    Carnegie Mellon University
    www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/robocomp/xavier/www

    40:00
    MinDART: Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotic Team
    Paul Rybski, Amy Larson, Mike Lindahl and Maria Gini
    Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Laboratory
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Minnesota
    www.cs.umn.edu/Research/airvl/minirob.html

    44:45
    JavaBots: Simulation and Mobile Robot Control in Java
    Tucker Balch
    Mobile Robot Laboratory
    Georgia Tech
    www.cc.gatech.edu/~tucker/JavaBots

    50:00
    Pepe: Personal Pet Robot
    Alexander Stoytchev and Rawesak Tanawongsuwan
    Georgia Tech
    http://www.cc.gatech.edu/faculty/ashwin/projects/pepe/

    55:40
    Scenes from the Exhibition

      Realtime vision on a dog-like robot, Northwestern University
      Kludge, Northwestern University
      Office Plant #1, Carnegie Mellon University
      The Nomad Scout, Nomadic Technologies
      Results of the Robot Building Lab, KISS Institute
      ATRV teleoperated robot, RWI/ISR
      Urban Robot, ISR
      Soccer robots, University of Southern California
      MinDART foraging robots, University of Minnesota
      Bear the robot server, University of North Dakota
      Lobotomous, University of New Mexico
      Ullanta multiagent snack serving robots, University of Southern California
      Find life on Mars robot, University of Texas at Arlington
      CMTrio: a team soccer-playing dog-like robots

    1:09:00
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