Robot Competitions & Research

Today: Competitions and ResearchMonday: IME/CS QuizWednesday:

–Project Trouble Shooting Day –Discussion of Presentations

John-Hopkins Robotic Surgery CompetitionThe challenge is to carry out a simulated surgery. Students have to design, build, and program a robot to find a tumor in the body and place a needle into it.

Robot Competitions: fun & research

• Some competitions are fun, awards, and accolades

• Some competitions help push the boundaries of research

IEEE Region 5 Competition

• IEEE Sponsored competition

• Team of ECE and CS students

• Objective changes each year

Beyond Botball

• KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)

• Objective changes every yearhttp://www.botball.org/current-season/beyond_botball.php

AAAI Competitions

• American Association of Artificial Intelligence

• Changes as challenges are met

AAAI USAR Competition”RoboCup Rescue

http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/USAR/

AAAI Scavenger Hunt

Robots search the conference hotel area for a checklist of given objects such as people or information located at specific locations or at a specific time.

This task will require robots to navigate and map a dynamic area with moving objects/people in order to acquire objects to satisfy the checklist.

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dodds/aaai06/

Larger Events• DARPA Grand Challenge

– 1/3 of all military vehicles will be autonomous by 2010.

• AAAI Grand Challenge– Robot Conference Presenter

• RoboCup: World Robot Soccer