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Dear Students, here are your web-pages, I hope all will be completed before Tuesday. Read about interests and skills of your collegues and discuss projects with them. In about two weeks we will start working in projects. Most of your homeworks will be re-used in projects.

The homeworks will fall to groups:
  1. robot control and walking robots.
  2. Computer Vision
  3. Natural language
  4. robot manipulation
  5. robot learning.
All good ideas and pieces of Lisp code will be next used in one of projects. We have used this strategy successfully in the past, so the students have higher motivation to work on homeworks.



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  1. Ken McCormack, who takes this class remotely from OCATE

    May be he is a right student to work on PeopleBot, because of his knowledge of sensors and interest in AI/intelligent control?

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  2. Jason Popovits, the guy who builds also a voice recognition/voice synthesis system for a robot in a Capstone project He studied psychology and has a general interest in Machine Learning.

    Perhaps should have a project in human/robot interaction and communication.

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  3. Matt Maple: the guy whose nose was catched by OWI robot. Has an interest in LISP, programming, obstacle avoidance/problem-solving.

    Perhaps should have a project in obstacle avoidance/planning/navigation for mobile robot.

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  4. Bjorn Chambless. Neural Nets, Data Mining, Reconstructability Analysis, Entropy, Artificial Life.

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  5. Andie Al-Rabadi. Logic Synthesis, Functional Approaches to learning, spectral methods, image processing.

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  6. Niwat Waropas. Walking robots, Rhino and robot programming, PC interfacing. Learning robots. Automatic learning of hexapod gaits (Genetic Algorithm? Genetic Programming? Neural Nets? Is it a good match with Bjorn interests?

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  7. "Joey Mumm" Interested in humanoid robots and halloween robots.

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  8. Jamie Hudson, interest in nanotechnology and group behaviors of robots.

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  9. Kimberly Janik janik@cs.pdx.edu
  10. Her Home Page She is interested in Puppet Theatre.

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  11. Abbas, Mohamed He is interested in multimedia and speech processing.

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    It seems to me that we can build two robots that will walk in FAB building like C3PO and R2D2, arguing with one another. One will be wheeled People-Bot with human head and hands. Another will be Hexapod Centaur. Every sub-project should be both mechanical/electrical design and (mostly) software.

    CENTAUR HEXAPOD WALKING ROBOT.
    1. Niwat Waropas: leader and walking. Supervise HS students on torso design and other mechanical help.
    2. Bjorn Chambless: design of head, speech processing and learning.
    3. Marianne Grant: design of hands.
    4. Mohamed Abbas: Hands and their control. (hands can be next reproduced for PEOPLEBOT).


    PEOPLEBOT MOBILE ROBOT ON WHEELS.
    1. Matt Maple: navigation in FAB building, planning. (navigation will be used by both groups)
    2. Ken McCormack: Navigation, obstacle avoidance, path planning.
      Matt, Ken and Jason should strongly collaborate from the very begining to develop the communication and planning for both robots. See the M.S. theses of Kevin Stanton, Cecilia Espinoza and Dieudonne Mayi.
    3. Joey Mumm: design of the head. (much experience will be used by both groups)
    4. Jason Popovits: speech and communication of CH with PB.
      RESOURCES:
    1. Activemedia Company, producer or PEOPLEBOT.

      We have the cheapest model for $ 6,000.

      Go to all links for more information.

      We have also radio control for it.

      In addition, we will use the same internet camera ($70 in Frey Electronics) as we use for small cart and walking robots. Two cameras will be build into eyes of the head, and there will be the third camera looking back or the "fish eye" camera (the so-called OMNI-directional view).


    ROBOT THEATRE WITH TALKING HEADS SHOWING EMOTIONS.
    1. Kimberly Janik. Small robots and talking heads will be completely autonomous, reacting to sensors and connected to a computer. They should perform some simple scenario and interact with public. Re-use skeleton, Molly and possibley the waver-handling robot as a marionette-operator.


    UNIVERSAL KIT OF MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS TO BUILD ANIMAL ROBOTS.
    1. Jamie Hudson. Should be able to reproduce all kinds of crawling, walking, swimming etc. animal movements and use principles of situated automata.


    SOCIETY OF ROBOTS
    1. Andie Al-Rabadi: Computer simulation of various group behaviors of robots; Genetic Algorithm, Genetic Programming, learning, epidemiology algorithms, etc. Design of a general-purpose graphics tool-kit.


    No more "groups of one" will be created, because of high priority of big robots for the laboratory. You can change the task with another person withing the CH and PB groups, but no more people should leave CH or PB groups, please. Work of Kim can be useful to head designs, and work of Jamie to hands designs. Andie's work can be useful to behavior of robots in the FAB building.