Professor: Marek A. Perkowski, Electrical Engineering.

ROBOT DEMONSTRATION FOR PDXBOT'04 ROBO-FEST IN PORTLAND, OREGON. JUNE 6, 2004.

1. Teams of Radio-Controlled Small Wheeled and Walking Robots to play soccer. 11:00am - 11:20am.
   Tyler Nguyen will explain the robots and how they work. The students will control the robot by radio trying to play soccer. If possible, the game will be of wheeled versus walking robots, if not the teams can share players. This demonstration would be better if there would be a camera on top that would be seeing the robots and the studens would be able to control the robot by pointing to the point on screen instead by using keyboard. Think about smart use of cameras. There were also complaints that there are no sensors on robots. Think about other activities for the robots. Think how to organize robot soccer with what you have.
   
   
2. CYNTHI-A -- A Talking Mobile Robot Lady. 11:20am - 11:40am.
   Jake Biamonte and Jeff Allen will explain the robot lady with "enthusiastic PSU speech". Explain also how obstacle avoidance algorithm works. This robot is good to avoid obstacles, but it was disappointing that the speech did not work last time. A speech program is nearly ready by Stefan Gebauer. We have done in the past many times speech programs connected to Alice and Eliza. I hope that this time Jake and Jeff will be able to show a working and talking robot, it will be a hit. Also, children expect that robot reacts to sensors. You can have just one simple sensor like movement detector on the robot. Be creative.
   
   
3. Talking Head Robot Hahoe. HEAD: PAEKCHONG. BAD BUTCHER. 11:40am - 12:05pm.
   Martin Lukac will explain his robot, speech interface and scenarios. The presentation was good, but you did not interact with children. It would be nice if they would be able to program some simple behaviors. Also, adding a camera or other sensor would be good, since all children expect it. You will also have to use another head. The head from Steve Mbah will be now on top of old Mr. Frank, new Sonbi, robot. Sorry, but their poor head was not a good match to a good body. I suggest that you work with the head that is on top of old Santa Claus body (Paekchong) and work with Kyle Reid (from PARTS) to complete the robot body. He will build the body, he just expects software from you and next you synchronize head and body. This robot should be "scary", but it is what already many children told us on Friday. This robot should speak very loudly with the voice of a big strong and bad man. Your energetic movements of the head from last demo are good, but you should add more.
   
   
4. Dancing and Talking Head Robot Theatre: HEAD: SONBI. CONFUCIAN SCHOLAR. 12:05pm - 12:30pm. The full team for this project is now: Stefan, Myron, Normen, Akashdeep and Steve Mbah.
   Last time Professor Perky was renamed to Mr. Frank, but a new name is needed since you will have now the Hahoe head of Sonbi, from Steve Mbah . Steve will also work with your group. Sonbi is a Cnfusian Scholar. He is an absentminded scholar, so it is similar in personality to Prof. Perky. However, he also dances, sings, braggs and chases women, and his knowledge is pretty encyclopedic but useless. Read the script on the door of the lab. Whatever you already programmed for Mr. Frank will be good but think about the Akashdeep game and other reactive behaviors. Somebody will program his theatre behaviors next, when the speech will be ready. If you need text - look to the door for complete text. Remember that the play is interactive and actors improvise a lot arguing with the public, and often begging money from the public or chasing women for fun. This is folk culture, not high culture. Stefan Gebauer and Akashdeep Aulakh will explain the robot and how it works. It should react to facial gestures of the child, so that the child will learn how to select one of many robot's behaviors by making faces. Hopefully, it will also play the "number game" of Akashdeep. Hopefully, the program of Myron will be able to select the game as one of activities. There should be many activities selected by sensor interface. In addition to the camera, you may use microphone and movement sensor that I left with Martin for your group. We have used such movement sensors many times in the past, last time by Uland Wong. Your last demo on Friday was very impressive, but it will be even better if you will integrate it with speech and vision software.
   
   
5. Machine Learning for Scholar Sonbi. 12:30pm - 12:40pm.
   Normen Giesecke will explain the machine learning based on Multiple-Valued Logic. What the students can do? Think about activities. As we disscussed, your program should learn only by using question/answering and machine learning based on MVSIS. It should be connected to old Mr. Frank, new version called Sonbi, robot.
   
   
6. HEXOR - A PC-Controlled Walking Mobile Robot. 12:40pm - 13:10pm.
   Natalie Metzger will demonstrate the robot together with Chris Brawn and they will explain the robot and will give simple examples of programming that the students will do. The demo was a big success. It would be nice to have a camera connected and shooting images to a big screen. In general, think how we will use the big screen in all demos. Can you have speech ready?
   
   
7. Fuzzy Logic Controller Software. 13:10pm - 13:25pm.
   Chris Brawn will explain the principles of writing fuzzy logic controllers for robots and his software. What the students will do? This was a great demo and several children and their parents/teachers told me how good it was. Just think how it can be linked to the Hexor. You will need big screen and computer projector again. Ask the office earlier, because the demo is on Sunday.
   
   
8. Hidden Markov Model face emotion recognition software. 13:25pm - 13:35pm. (Parallel activities).
   Myron Machado will explain the software. Any student activity? Make faces? Your software worked well. Try to integrate, your interaction with kids was great. Try to explain them a little bit about computer vision and Hidden Markov Models in an easy way.
   
   
9. Speech recognition and synthesis. 13:35pm - 13:45pm. (Parallel activities)
   Stefan Gebauer and Normen Giesecke will explain the software. Do you plan any student activity? What can they do? Change words? As discussed above and in person. How to connect/integrate with the robot that you are building. Remember a new head. This is Hahoe robot now. We have no time to build a better head. The one from Steve is OK.
   
   
10. Visual Human Tracking Software. 13:35pm - 13:45pm. (parallel activities)
    Sam Siziliano Any student activities? What they can do creatively? Sam, any ideas? This software can be integrated with any of the software pieces used in any of our walking and stationary humanoid robots, especially with "Mr. Frank" and Hahoe Heads.
    
    
11. Dancing Lions for Hahoe Robot Theatre. 13:35pm - 13:45pm. (parallel activities)
    Alfred Ping Hang Cheung, and Randall Borck. Your demonstration will be the two lions. Add music to them, make them "dancing" and reacting to any sensor information. You should take sofware from all other groups and integrate. Ask Korean students, there are many in our department, especially ask for Chong-Ho-Lee, to give you recorded music of traditional korean dances that can be used by lions. I leave also one casette with korean traditional music by Martin.
    
    Next the group will move to the Industrial Robot Lab.
    
    
12. Industrial Robot Programming. 13:35pm - 14:00pm. The first group will leave at 13:35pm. The second group will leave at 13:45pm.
    Chris Brawn will explain the robot and will give simple examples of programming that the students will do. The demo was great. Just repeat what you have done on Monday, May 11.