Registration information contest: Hors D'ouevres exhibitor: CARL project univ: Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal realname: Luís Seabra Lopes email: lsl@det.ua.pt phone: 351-234-370374 fax: 351-234-381128, usmail: Depart. Electronica e Telecomunicações Universidade de Aveiro P-3810 Aveiro Portugal robot: Carl website: www.ieeta.pt/carl photo: www.ieeta.pt/carl abstract: The project is concerned with the integration of Communication, Action, Reasoning and Learning in robotics. Particular emphasis on human-robot interaction. Registration information contest: Exhibition, Hors D'oeuvres exhibitor: Jonathan Hurst, Brian Kirby, Anthony Rowe univ: Carnegie Mellon University realname: Jonathan Hurst email: jhurst@andrew.cmu.edu phone: (412) 421-3541 fax: , usmail: 1811 Wightman Street Pittsburgh, PA 15217 robot: Jim2, Flying Ginsu website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~rc99/jim2/index.html photo: abstract: Jim2 is a double-frame walking robot built to compete in the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Walking Machine Decathlon. It uses two independent frames to allow the main mass of the robot to move in a continuous motion. This gait conserves momentum, allowing Jim2 to walk very fast and conserve battery power. The Flying Ginsu is a Robotic Hovercraft. It uses two optical mice to track its rotational and linear velocity, and electric fans to apply forces. Feedback from the mice allow the craft to resist disturbances such as gusts of wind and hills. additional sensing, such as sonar or computer vision, will be used to sense world coordinates. Registration information contest: Hors D'oeuvres exhibitor: Robot Partners group from the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence univ: University of British Columbia realname: Pantelis Elinas email: elinas@cs.ubc.ca phone: 604-822-6625 fax: 604-822-5485, usmail: Department of Computer Science 201-2366 Main Mall Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z4 robot: Eric website: www.cs.ubc.ca/~elinas/aaai_main.htm photo: www.cs.ubc.ca/~elinas/aaai_main.htm abstract: Our entry is an RWI B14 mobile robot equipped with a number of sensors. These sensors include sonar, infrared, bump, audio and vision. The audio sensors are three wireless microphones of which two are used for computing the direction of sound sources and one is used for input to a speech recognition engine. There are two vision sensors: Triclops, a trinocular stereo system and a color pan-tilt camera. The robot is connected to a LAN over an 11Mbps wireless Ethernet and has a DoubleTalk speech synthesis card. The serving tray will be mounted on top of the robot. The robot is driven by a behavior-based software architecture. Processing of sensor data is distributed over 3 computers connected over a LAN. The onboard computer, with an Intel PIII 700MHz processor, runs the localization, mapping, path following and artificial intelligence modules under Linux. The other two computers are an AMD 600MHz Athlon running Linux and an AMD 300MHz K6-2 Laptop running Windows98. They are dedicated to sound localization and speech recognition (using IBM’s ViaVoice software.) Vision-based localization using SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) landmarks complements robot odometry. Stereo data from the Triclops is used to build an occupancy grid map of the environment for navigation. Obstacle detection is based on stereo vision as well as sonar and infrared sensors. People are located by the sound localization module and by looking for skin tones using the color camera. Human-robot interaction is achieved via the speech recognition and speech synthesis modules. Registration information contest: hors d'oeuvres exhibitor: ksu team 2 univ: kansas state university realname: david gustafson email: dag@cis.ksu.edu phone: 785 532 6350 fax: 785 532 7353, usmail: David Gustafson Kansas State University Computing and Information Sciences 234 Nichols Hall Manhattan, KS 66506 Registration information contest: hors d'oeuvres exhibitor: univ: Seattle Robotics Society realname: Ron A Nucci email: r.nucci@worldnet.att.net phone: fax: usmail: Registration information contest: hors d'oeuvres exhibitor: Mario univ: Swarthmore realname: Bruce A. Maxwell email: maxwell@swarthmore.edu phone: fax: usmail: