Enabling Intelligence through Middleware
Papers from the 2010 AAAI Robot Workshop
Andrea Thomaz and Monica Anderson, Robotics Event Cochairs
Ayanna Howard, Workshop Chair
Technical Report WS-10-09 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Organizers
Ayanna Howard
Spectrum Curricula: Design and Initial Results
Jacob Beal, Alice Leung, Robert Laddaga
Interactive Learning by Demonstration with the Simon Robot
Crystal Chao, Michael Gielniak, Jae Wook Yoo, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz
Using Commodity Parts to Build a Low-Cost Autonomous Robot
James Davis, Jerrad Funderburk, Daniel Gay, Revarr Johnson, Robert Phares, Daniel Thompson, Andrew McKenzie, Monica Delaine Anderson
Lego Mindstorms Programming via PREOP
James Davis, Monica Delaine Anderson
YARP, a Thin Middleware for (Humanoid) Robots
Paul Fitzpatrick, Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta
CAST: Middleware for Memory-Based Architectures
Nick Hawes, Marc Hanheide
Enabling Citizen Roboticists
Dustin West Heaton, Jeffrey C. Carver, Monica Anderson
PixelLaser: Learning Range via Texture
Michael Leece, Nicole Lesperance, Steve Matsumoto, Max Korbel, Kenny Lei, Zachary Dodds
An Intensive Introductory Robotics Course Without Prerequisites
Julian Mason, Gavin Taylor
Increasing Biped Walk Robustness Through Playback and Corrective Demonstration
Cetin Mericli, Manuela Veloso
Brown ROS Package: Reproducibility for Shared Experimentation and Learning from Demonstration
Sarah Osentoski, Graylin Jay, Christopher Crick, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Low-Cost Manipulation Powered by ROS
Morgan Quigley, Alan Asbeck, Andrew Ng
Developing a Framework for Team-Based Robotics Research
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Susan Epstein, Arif T. Ozgelen, George Rabanca, Sam Anzaroot, Joel Gonzalez, Jesse Lopez, Mitch Lustig, Linda Ma, Mark Manashirov, J. Pablo Munoz, S. Bruno Salazar, Miriam Schwartz
The IMP: An Intelligent Mobile Projector
Aaron Strauss, Anis Zaman, Keith J. O'Hara
Efficient Apprenticeship Learning with Smart Humans
Kaushik Subramanian, Michael L. Littman
Calliope: Mobile Manipulation From Commodity Components
David S. Touretzky, Owen Watson, Clement S. Allen, Ray Russell
ShakeTime! A Persuasive Robotic Game
Marynel Vázquez, Alexander May, Wei-Hsuan Chen
BotSense: An Open-Source Middleware Framework for Unifying and Enabling Intelligent Robotic Systems
Kim Wheeler, Jerry Weinberg, Robin D. Knight, William Yu, Collin Horvat, Jason Tennyson, Casey Kuhns, Aaron Parker, Jeff Croxell
Golem Chesster: Autonomous Manipulation for Human-Robot Chess
Hyun-Soo Yi, Tobias Kunz, Pushkar Kolhe, Evan Seguin, Mike Stilman