the denning mobile robot company of boston was the first company to offer ready-made autonomous robots that were subsequently purchased primarily by researchers .

grinnell more 's real world interface , inc. ( rwi ) and james slater 's nomadic technologies ( us ) , along with francesco mondada 's k-team ( switzerland ) , were other pioneering companies in this field , addressing the need for ready-made robots for use by robotics researchers .

rwi created the b-21 , nomadic the xr4000 , whilst the tiny khepera mobile robot emerged from the stables of the swiss k-team .

however , the high price of these machines meant that only a few graduate students and military researchers could afford them .

eventually , the low-cost pioneer robot was introduced in 1995 ( from a collaboration between rwi and activmedia robotics ) , a project that expanded research in mobile robotics due to the affordable price .

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. our research goal is to increase the capabilities , robustness and overall autonomy of mobile robot systems . my research has these main themes :
our centre focuses on the research , development and application of autonomous and intelligent robots , and systems for use in outdoor environments .
autonomous solutions , inc . ( asi ) begins work with barrick gold on first major autonomous haulage project in the united states
the aim of rtcma is to facilitate the realisation of a fully - autonomous , integrated mining operation by undertaking research in autonomous systems , orebody modelling and systems optimisation relevant to rio tinto operations .
welcome to the lincoln centre for autonomous systems research ( l - cas ) in the school of computer science at the university of lincoln .
robotics and autonomous systems will carry articles on the theoretical , computational and experimental aspects of autonomous systems , or modules of such systems .
hermes is a sarcos humanoid , a hydraulic full body humanoid robot with 44 degrees of freedom , an active vision system with two moving eyes , actuated hands , an inbuilt kinect 3d camera , and various touch and imu sensing devices . the robot is part of the usc human centered robotics lab for research in robot control , autonomous learning , and human - robot interaction .
husky is trusted by hundreds of researchers and engineers globally . numerous research papers have been published using husky as the test set - up . husky provides a proven benchmark for establishing new robot research and development efforts .
robot : the team must score in the top 40 % of all teams participating in the robot game at the event .
robotics and autonomous systems will carry articles describing fundamental developments in the field of robotics , with special emphasis on autonomous systems . an important goal of this journal is to extend the state of the art in both symbolic and sensory based robot control and learning in the context of autonomous systems .
to enhance tactical situational awareness in urban and complex terrain by enabling the autonomous operation of a collaborative ensemble of multifunctional , mobile microsystems through collaborative and multidisciplinary research .
the marine systems group at the australian centre for field robotics conducts important research in sensing , navigation , visualisation and classification of marine habitats using autonomous underwater vehicles .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that dr . milind tambe of the university of southern california is the recipient of the 2005 award . dr . tambe has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems . in particular , dr . tambe made seminal contributions to the theory , applications , and software infrastructure in the area of teamwork , which has become a flourishing research area in multi agent systems . in addition to his substantial research contributions , dr . tambe has served the autonomous agents research community , in a variety of ways most recently as the general co - chair of the third international conference on autonomous agents and multi agent systems ( aamas2004 ) .
our team of mobile robot experts can help you select and integrate payloads then configure the robot at the factory . husky is plug - and - play compatible with our wide range of robot accessories and our system integrators will deliver a fully integrated turn - key robot .
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the selection committee for the sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that dr . makoto yokoo of the ntt communication science laboratories is the recipient of the 2004 award . dr . yokoo has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems . in particular , dr . yokoo made seminal contributions to the area of distributed constrain satisfaction , which has become a flourishing research area in multi agent systems . dr . yokoo has also contributed to the areas of mechanism design in anonymous environments and secure protocols for combinatorial optimization problems . in addition to his substantial research contributions , dr . yokoo has served the autonomous agents research community , most recently as a technical program co - chair of the second international conference on autonomous agents and multi agent systems ( aamas 2003 ) and has been a leading figure in the autonomous agents community in japan and asia / pacific rim .
the goal of the project was to create a prototype platform for mobile autonomous manufacturing .
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robotics and autonomous systems , volume 88 , pages 104–115 , elsevier , february 2017 .
robotics and autonomous systems 61 ( 10 ) : 1106 - 1115 , october 2013 .
take autonomous technology further with asi’s research and development in innovative sensor fusion or rewrite the way vehicles are tested with asi autonomous durability testing . achieve higher safety , pinpoint accuracy , and vastly improved efficiency in testing . ford and other major oem’s have already begun this movement .
acm sigai , in collaboration with the international conference on autonomous agents , in 2000 has instituted an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents . the award is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field . the award is an official acm award , funded by an endowment created by acm sigai from the proceeds of previous autonomous agents conferences . prior to 2014 , it was known as the acm / sigart autonomous agents award . read more about the award at the acm awards site .
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the turtlebot robot is a small non - holonomic mobile robot , fully integrated with ros , and including a netbook and kinect for onboard computation and navigation .
no team is allowed to win two awards , unless one of the awards is for robot performance . robot performance is the only category based solely on score .
“if stanley kubrick directed ‘dr . strangelove’ again , it would be about the issue of autonomous weapons , ” said michael schrage , a research fellow at the massachusetts institute of technology sloan school of management .
robotics and autonomous systems will carry articles describing fundamental developments in the field of robotics , with special emphasis on autonomous systems . an important goal of this journal is to extend the state of the art in both symbolic and sensory based robot control and learning in the context . . .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that prof . manuela m . veloso of carnegie mellon university is the recipient of the 2009 award . prof . veloso has made significant and sustained contributions to autonomous agents and multiagent systems in the areas of planning and control learning in multi - agent systems . prof . veloso ' s research is particularly noteworthy for its focus on the effective construction of teams of robot agents where cognition , perception , and action are seamlessly integrated to address planning , execution , and learning tasks . she has made significant contributions to agents in uncertain and dynamic environments , including distributed robot localization and world modeling , strategy selection in multiagent systems in the presence of adversaries , planning by analogical reuse , and more recently , robot learning from demonstration . her research contributions have also been realized concretely in the form of teams of robot soccer playing agents that have won several international championships at the annual robocup robot soccer competitions . her impact and visibility has been consistently high over the past two decades for her technical contributions , for her impressive robot teams , and for her leadership within the research community .
in proceedings of rss 2008 workshop on interactive robot learning , zürich , june 2008 .
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computer or tablet with software to program the robot . ( laptop is recommended . )
autonomous systems are set to transform not only production and logistics , but business models and user behavior .
the selection committee for the acm / sigai autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that dr . catherine pelachaud , director of research at cnrs at telecom paristech is the recipient of the 2015 award . dr . pelachaud is honored for her sustained and substantial contributions to the area of intelligent virtual agents . her seminal work in this area helped launch the area of intelligent virtual agents , and her many subsequent publications have exerted a strong influence on virtual agent research at aamas and the intelligent virtual agents conferences . furthermore , her research on the role that bodily communication plays in face - to - face interaction has helped set the agenda of embodied agent research . in the process , it has firmly established a research area of modeling the body , its relation to the mind and its role in social interaction . overall , this work has filled critical gaps in agents research often ignored by the larger community .
the mast consortium has worked collaboratively to develop a management structure that embraces this paradigm shift through an integrated research plan that incorporates arl researchers with the consortium and cross - cutting themes to join the four research centers together as one .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that dr . michael wooldridge of the university of liverpool , uk is the recipient of the 2006 award . dr . wooldridge has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems . in particular , dr . wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi - agent systems , especially to formal theories of cooperation , teamwork and communication , computational complexity in multi - agent systems , and agent - oriented software engineering . in addition to his substantial research contributions , dr . wooldridge has served the autonomous agents research community , in a variety of ways including foundin g of the agentlink network of excellence in 1997 and most recently as the technical program co - chair of the fourth international conference on autonomous agents and multi agent systems ( aamas2005 ) .
irobot’s roomba is introduced . using a cleaning algorithm , the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner could clean a room while detecting and avoiding obstacles . rodney brooks , co - founder of irobot , previously performed research at mit’s mobile robotics lab . the research focused on using insect - like reflex behavior instead of a central “brain” to create purposeful behavior .
the dragonbot is a five degree of freedom dragon robot designed by the mit personal robotics group . the aesthetics of the robot as seen here were designed by viva la puppet .
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what happens when systems transition from merely following programs to being autonomous ? the answer : one of the most revolutionary developments in industrial history . this dossier demonstrates how siemens is moving ahead with the development of autonomous systems .
katia sycara of carnegie mellon university has been awarded the acm sigart autonomous agents research award for 2002 . dr . sycara has made significant contributions to a number of subareas of agent research , including agent architectures , middle agents , and multi - agent negotiation . she has played a major role in organizing the journal autonomous agents and multi - agent systems , and the international conferences on autonomous agents . in recognition of this award , dr . sycara gave an address at the first international conference on autonomous agents and multi - agent systems , in bologna , italy , july 17 - 19 , 2002 . the title of her presentation was
agents supporting humans and organizations in open , dynamic environments .
an overview of the trends driving the most fundamental change ever witnessed in industry : the birth of autonomous machines .
in proceedings of 14th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems ( ias ) , shanghai , china , july 2016 .
in proceedings of 13th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems ( ias ) , padova , italy , july 2014 .
in proceedings of 13th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems ( ias ) , padova , italy , july 2014 .
accepted for robocup 2017 : robot world cup xxi , lncs , springer , to appear 2018 .
a : it is not possible to win the robot performance award without doing the project . teams must participate in all 3 judged areas ( project , core values and robot design ) and the robot game to be eligible for any core awards and robot performance is a core award . this rule encourages teams to embrace the spirit of discovery and focus on all aspects of the challenge .
international journal of robotics research ( ijrr ) 37 ( 4 - 5 ) : 437 - 451 , sage publications , 2018 .
innovative optic - flow based algorithms resembling those used by insects will help the robot control its speed .
this utilitarian approach is certainly laudable but the participants were willing to go only so far . “ [ participants ] were not as confident that autonomous vehicles would be programmed that way in reality—and for a good reason : they actually wished others to cruise in utilitarian autonomous vehicles , more than they wanted to buy utilitarian autonomous vehicles themselves , ” conclude bonnefon and co .
the robotic systems lab designs machines , creates actuation principles , and builds up control technologies for autonomous operation in challenging environments .
the concepts behind honda ' s robot r & d the main concept behind honda ' s robot r & d was to create a more viable mobility that allows robots to help and live in harmony with people .
when authors co - submit and publish a method article in methodsx , it appears on sciencedirect linked to the original research article in this journal .
in addition to her substantial research contributions , prof kraus has served the autonomous agents research community in many ways . she was pc chair of the fourth international conference on multi - agent systems ( icmas2000 ) , and general co - chair of the fourth international conference on autonomous agents and multi agent systems ( aamas2005 ) . she has been an associate editor of the aamas journal since its founding , and an editor of ai journal since 2000 . sarit is also an adjunct professor of computer science at the institute for advanced computer studies , university of maryland .
the selection committee for the acm / sigai autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that dr . craig boutilier , principal research scientist at google , is the recipient of the 2018 award . over the years , dr . boutilier has made seminal contributions to research on decision - making under uncertainty , game theory , and computational social choice . he is a pioneer in applying decision - theoretic concepts in novel ways in a variety of domains including ( single - and multi - agent ) planning and reinforcement learning , preference elicitation , voting , matching , facility location , and recommender systems . his recent research continues to significantly influence the field of computational social choice through the novel computational and methodological tools he introduced and his focus on modeling realistic preferences . in addition to his reputation for outstanding research , dr . boutilier is also recognized as an exceptional teacher and mentor .
adults are strictly prohibited from directing team members or interfering with the judging process or robot rounds in any way .
e6 ( 1991 - 1993 ) autonomous control of balancing when going up and down the stairs or slopes or stepping over an obstacle .
in proceedings of 15th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems ( ias - 15 ) , baden - baden , germany , june 2018 .
in frontiers of intelligent autonomous systems , pp . 5 - 16 , studies in computational intelligence , volume 466 , springer , 2013 .
the selection committee for the acm / sigai autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that prof . michael wellman of the university of michigan is the recipient of the 2014 award . prof . wellman has had a profound and broad impact across an array of research challenges in autonomous agents and multiagent systems . prof . wellman ' s contributions range from his pioneering work that helped introduce economic paradigms in multiagent systems , to significant contributions to computational game theory and electronic commerce , including mechanism design and market - based systems . additionally , prof . wellman played an instrumental role in launching the annual trading agent competition ( tac ) , one of the oldest and most well - known research competitions in multi - agent systems .
the centibots project , funded by the defense advanced research projects agency ( darpa ) , sought to prove that up to 100 robots could survey a potentially dangerous area , build a map in real time , and seek items of interest . centibots communicated with each other to coordinate their effort . if one robot failed , another took over its task . the robots were completely autonomous , requiring no human supervision .
each challenge has three parts : the robot game , the project , and the core values . teams of up to ten children , with at least two adult coaches , participate in the challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points on a themed playing field ( robot game ) , developing a solution to a problem they have identified ( project ) , all guided by the first core values . teams may then attend an official tournament , hosted by our first lego league partners .
when authors co - submit and publish a data article in data in brief , it appears on sciencedirect linked to the original research article in this journal .
leading global mining group rio tinto and the university of sydney have celebrated the 10th anniversary of their multimillion dollar research partnership aimed at increasing innovation in mining .
the selection committee for the acm / sigai autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that prof . peter stone of the university of texas at austin is the recipient of the 2016 award . prof . stone ' s work is exceptional in both its breadth and depth in multiagent systems . some of his most influential work has been in reinforcement learning and multiagent learning as applied to robot soccer , autonomous traffic management , and trading agents . his contributions are ongoing , as evidenced by the growing influence of one of his recent innovations , the formulation of ad hoc teamwork as a new research area . in addition to the impact of his research , his teams ' successes in international competitions , including robocup and the trading agent competition , are particularly notable . prof . stone has also served the multiagent systems , ai , and robocup communities in various leadership roles .
jacob regenstein , an engineer , held a fake rifle during a test of an autonomous drone in august on cape cod , in massachusetts .
if you find the work we’re doing in autonomous robotics to be exciting , and you have a background in computer vision , autonomous path planning , flight controls , or drone cellular connectivity , we’d love to hear from you . please visit us at urltoken to submit your resume .
in proc . of the 12th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems ( ias - 12 ) , jeju island , korea , june 2012 .
the idea of creating a fully autonomous security robot that never needs to take a smoke break , and could continuously patrol without getting tired or bored , brought one of the largest electronic companies in the world to combine forces with asi and form asi security .
a robot may not injure a human being or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm .
a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second laws .
robocup 2012 , robot soccer world cup xvi , lncs 7500 , pp . 89 - 93 , springer , 2013 .
robocup 2012 , robot soccer world cup xvi , lncs 7500 , pp . 94 - 105 , springer , 2013 .
research began by envisioning the ideal robot form for use in human society . the robot would need to be able to maneuver between objects in a room and be able to go up and down stairs . for this reason it had to have two legs , just like a person . in addition , if two - legged walking technology could be established , the robot would need to be able to walk on uneven ground and be able to function in a wide range of environments . although considered extremely difficult at the time , honda set itself this ambitious goal and developed revolutionary new technology to create a two - legged walking robot .
during autonomous path planning , the robot builds a 3d roadmap of safe waypoints and collision - free edges between them . the drone picks the minimum cost ( shortest ) path to the goal on this graph but may change its path whenever obstacles come into view .
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the australian centre for field robotics ( acfr ) has been instrumental in developing breakthrough technologies , conducting world - renowned research and developing field robotics principles and systems .
our biomedical engineering research teams work across a range of application areas such as prosthetics , obstetrics , imaging and orthodontics to enable better health outcomes for our society .
in proceedings of taros 2009 : towards autonomous robotic systems , pp . 149 - 156 , univ . of ulster , uk , september 2009 .
smart sensing within the robot ' s structure will be used to detect the position and force of contact with the environment .
in : robocup 2016 : robot world cup xx , lncs 9776 , pp . 478 - 490 , springer , 2017 .
in : robocup 2016 : robot world cup xx , lncs 9776 , pp . 625 - 633 , springer , 2017 .
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video from an autonomous drone as it flew above a replica of a middle eastern village at a military testing range at camp edwards , in massachusetts .
“sispis are part of a larger picture that we define as siemens agile manufacturing systems ( siams ) and they represent the core of our autonomous systems research here in princeton , ” says dalloro , who explains that the spider - like bots are essentially fully autonomous additive manufacturing devices with legs . “we are looking at using multiple autonomous robots for collaborative additive manufacturing of structures , such as car bodies , the hulls of ships and airplane fuselages . ” additive manufacturing , also known as 3d printing , is a technology in which products or surfaces are created or refined by depositing layer after micro - layer of a selected material .
husky is a medium sized robotic development platform . its large payload capacity and power systems accommodate an extensive variety of payloads , customized to meet research needs . stereo cameras , lidar , gps , imus , manipulators and more can be added to the ugv by our integration experts . the husky’s rugged construction and high - torque drivetrain can take your research where no other robot can go . husky is fully supported in ros with community driven open source code and examples .
a robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings , except where such orders would conflict with the first law .
in : robocup 2011 : robot soccer world cup xv , lncs 7416 , pp . 51 - 62 , springer , 2012 .
in : robocup 2012 : robot soccer world cup xvi , lncs 7500 , pp . 1 - 12 , springer , 2013 .
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in proceedings of 17th ieee international symposium on robot and human interactive communication ( ro - man ) , munich , august 2008 .
the centre ' s mission is to undertake research to develop new field robotics and intelligent systems theories and methods , and apply them in industrial , social and environmental settings .
it is possible for a team to receive a 1st place core values , project , or robot design award but not advance to championship if their robot performance score is ranked below the top 75 % of teams at the event . a team may win 1st place in robot performance but not advance to championship due to not having performed well in one or more of the three judged areas .
- the three core research thrusts ( mce , spp , cnc ) address capability gaps at the level of component technologies . the jx thrust serves as a focal point to integrate and evaluate technical capabilities on platforms performing elements of mission - like scenarios , through a set of research tasks that involve collaboration between multiple centers and between the consortium and arl .
husky was the first field robotics platform to support ros from its factory settings . use husky to integrate with existing research and build upon the growing knowledge base in the thriving ros community to get started producing research results faster . husky uses an open source serial protocol and we offer api support for ros , and options for c + + and python .
in robot operating system ( ros ) , the complete reference ( volume 2 ) , pp . 487 - 524 , springer 2017 .
robocup 2013 : robot world cup xvii , lecture notes in computer science 8371 , pp . 135 - 146 , springer , 2014 .
robocup 2013 : robot world cup xvii , lecture notes in computer science 8371 , pp . 56 - 67 , springer , 2014 .
in proceedings of ieee international symposium on robot and human interactive communication ( ro - man ) , paris , france , september 2012 .
in proceedings of 5th acm / ieee international conference on human - robot interaction ( hri ) , osaka , japan , march 2010 .
the core values poster and the robot design executive summary are additional tools that may be used to help facilitate discussion in the core values and robot design judging sessions at official events . your partner will distribute the instructions to teams outlining the information to be included if your region plans to require the core values poster and / or the robot design executive summary at its events . please contact your partner for further information . the core values poster and the robot design executive summary will be used as part of the judging at world festival .
the winner of the 2001 award is tuomas sandholm , of carnegie mellon university . dr . sandholm has conducted an intensive research program in electronic markets and multi - agent systems , and has also done work in other areas of autonomous agents . the breadth and depth of his contributions over a relatively short period of time are impressive . in addition , he has been an active contributor to the autonomous agents community , contributing regularly to the aa conference since its inception . in recognition of this award , dr . sandholm presented an invited lecture at the 2001 international conference on autonomous agents . the title of his presentation was
agents in combinatorial markets .
essentially fully autonomous additive manufacturing devices with legs , spider robots being developed at siemens corporate technology in princeton could work collaboratively to manufacture a wide range of structures .
the ava is a fully - holonomic mobile robotics platform designed and manufactured by irobot . it features integrated autonomous navigation capabilities supported by an impressive set of sensors .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that prof . jonathan gratch and prof . stacy marsella from the university of southern california institute for creative technologies are the joint recipients of the 2010 award . prof . marsella and prof . gratch have made significant and sustained contributions to autonomous agents and multiagent systems in the area of virtual agents , in particular in emotion modeling and social simulation . their agent models have vastly contributed to the field of embodied conversational agents . their work balances theoretical and engineering achievements , allowing the understanding of the factors and processes underlying how emotion affects behaviors . they have also proposed a novel way to validate computational models of human emotions . their work has been applied to large projects in multiple application domains such as interactive drama and serious games . prof . marsella has served the autonomous agents research community , in a variety of ways , including chairing the virtual agent track of the ninth international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems ( aamas 2010 ) . prof . gratch is the current president of the humaine association for research on emotions and human - machine interaction as well as the founding editor of the ieee transactions on affective computing . they have won the best innovative system / application paper award at the second international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems ( aamas 2003 ) .
romo is comsumer robot by romotive . it has an animated face that works on either an iphone or ipod touch and a mobile base .
in proceedings of 18th ieee international symposium on robot and human interactive communication ( ro - man ) , toyama , japan , september 2009 .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2012 award is professor moshe tennenholtz ( technion / microsoft research israel ) . professor tennenholtz is honoured for his substantial and sustained contributions to the foundations of multi - agent systems . his contributions range from the first formal studies of social laws for multi - agent systems , through contributions to the computational theory of auctions , multi - agent learning , computational social choice theory , reputation and ranking systems , and the notion of program equilibrium . in addition , prof tennenholtz has a substantial track record of outstanding community service , including serving as an editor - in - chief of jair : the journal of ai research .
ieee robotics and automation letters ( ra - l ) , special issue on learning and control for autonomous manipulation systems : the role of dimensionality reduction , april 2018 .
we participate in a large number of collaborative research projects with other academic and industry partners , funded by epsrc , innovate uk and horizon 2020 , among others . we also collaborate closely with the university of lincoln’s research institutes in agri - food technology and health , and the national centre for food manufacturing , which are focussed on delivering real - world impact in those domains .
aiming for function in the human living space honda wants to create a partner for people , a new kind of robot that functions in society .
a user - friendly humanoid robot torso platform , developed by living creatures , details found here . additional images of this platform are found here .
defense officials say the weapons are needed for the united states to maintain its military edge over china , russia and other rivals , who are also pouring money into similar research ( as are allies , such as britain and israel ) . the pentagon’s latest budget outlined $ 18 billion to be spent over three years on technologies that included those needed for autonomous weapons .
first lego league challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers . during the into orbit season , teams will choose and solve a real - world problem in the project . they will also build , test , and program an autonomous robot using lego ® mindstorms ® technology to solve a set of missions in the robot game . throughout their experience , teams will operate under the first signature set of core values , celebrating discovery , teamwork , and gracious professionalism ® .
the selection committee for the acm sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2011 award is professor joe halpern of cornell university , ithaca , ny . professor halpern is honoured for his substantial and enormously influential contributions to the logical foundations of multi - agent systems , in particular , the computational foundations and applications of epistemic logic and reasoning under uncertainty .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that prof . yoav shoham of stanford university is the recipient of the 2008 award . prof . shoham has made significant and sustained contributions to autonomous agents and multiagent systems in the areas of logic and game theory . he has made contributions on logics of knowledge and belief and on non - monotonic logic . he has proposed techniques of belief revision and importantly for mas , a theory of belief fusion . he defined the framework for agent oriented programming that represented a programming view of those theoretical notions studied . the paper describing aop and published in 1993 is still one of the most cited papers on agents research . his research on game theory includes seminal work on combinatorial auctions and on several topics on mechanism design . he performed early work on social laws and conventions . he has proposed algorithms and test beds ( cats and gamut ) that are widely used . on the practical side , he has founded two successful companies in the ecommerce industry . overall , his research covers formal and practical aspects , and the impact of his work has been consistently very high for the last fifteen years .
the qualifier advancement policy is based on champion’s award criteria . as described above , champion’s award criteria require that the team , performs well in all three judged areas ( core values , project , and robot design ) . teams are required to be ranked in the in the top 40 % of official robot game scores to be considered for champion’s award and they must be ranked in the top 75 % of official robot game scores to be eligible to advance .
seeking step change in safety , predictability , precision and efficiency for its mining operations , rio tinto approached the university of sydney’s acfr directly to undertake a collaborative research project through the establishment of the rio tinto centre for mine automation ( rtcma ) . the centre’s work will span 12 years , from 2007 to 2019 . it is believed to be the single largest investment in robotics research anywhere in the world .
with the exception of the robot performance award , awards are determined by a deliberation process , which is formulated around discussions of team performance in each category .
the selection committee for the acm / sigai autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that prof . david parkes of harvard university is the recipient of the 2017 award . prof . parkes ' research has explored a variety of topics in multiagent systems and economics . his early work on combinatorial auctions made fundamental contributions to the theory of the field ; other pioneering early work includes an influential synthesis of mdps and mechanism design , a formalism for incentive - aligned , distributed mechanism design , and the development of market - based methods for resource allocation in sensor networks . recent research of prof . parkes has applied machine learning to produce new results and techniques for human computation , mechanism design , and social choice . he has also provided sustained service to the multiagent systems and econcs communities in key leadership roles .
the video shows the perching mechanism that allows indoor flying robots to attach to vertical surfaces . the gecko adhesive pad is optimized for maximum attachment force and is mounted on a mechanism that stays within the structure of the robot during flight and that can be deployed for perching . the perching maneuver is very simple ; the robot starts on the ground , takes off in the middle of the room , and when a perching maneuver is initiated by the pilot , the adhesive pad is deployed and the robot flies directly towards a wall . once the robot is attached to the wall , the motors are shut down to save energy .
movement speed is another social factor . if a robot is , say , two or three meters away from the nearest human , it should be able to move as fast as it needs to ; but if it is close to a person , it should move much more slowly . associated with this is the concept of robot movement “legibility . ” in other words , as human workers and robots collaborate , the robot’s movements will have to be slow enough and clear enough to allow humans to intuit what the robot will do next . “characteristics such as these are being engineered into our motion planning system , ” says huber .
dirk holz and sven behnke : approximate triangulation and region growing for efficient segmentation and smoothing of range images robotics and autonomous systems 62 ( 9 ) : 1282 - 1293 , september 2014 .
the project is run by the defense advanced research projects agency , known as darpa , which is developing the software needed for machines that could work with small units of soldiers or marines as scouts or in other roles .
all team members attending an event are required to participate in all three ( 3 ) judging sessions , and be present as a team at the robot game matches .
teams must participate in all elements of a first lego league competition including the robot game and all three judged areas in order to be eligible for any core award .
in proceedings of the 6th acm / ieee international conference on human - robot interaction ( hri ) , pp . 481 - 488 , lausanne , switzerland , march 2011 .
if a team does not exhibit core values at a tournament , they may be disqualified from winning any awards – including robot performance , no matter how well they scored .
the selection committee for the acm / sigart autonomous agents research award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2013 award is professor jeffrey s . rosenschein ( the hebrew university of jerusalem , israel ) . professor rosenschein is honoured for his pioneering work on the use of game theory in multi - agent systems . among professor rosenschein ' s many contributions in this area are techniques for automated negotiation , computational social choice , multi - agent planning , and mechanism design in computational settings . in addition , professor rosenschein has a substantial track record of community service , having been general co - chair for the aamas conference in 2003 , president of the international foundation for autonomous agents and multiagent systems ( ifaamas ) , and serving as co - editor - in - chief for the journal
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a : the robot performance award recognizes a team that scores the most points during the robot game . teams have a chance to compete in at least three 2 . 5 minute matches and only the highest score out of the three matches counts . while some events may hold elimination or alliance matches for the excitement and fun , these may not be used to determine the robot performance award . instead , any awards provided for elimination or alliance matches may only be local awards . note that scores from any alliance or elimination rounds will not be used to determine the robot performance bar ( at or better than the top 40 % ) needed to be met for qualifier advancement or champion’s award consideration .
algorithms developed by dalloro’s team allow multi - robot task planning so that two or more devices can collaborate on the additive manufacture or surface processing of a single object or area .
max schwarz and sven behnke : compliant robot behavior using servo actuator models identified by iterative learning control in proceedings of 17th robocup international symposium , eindhoven , netherlands , june 2013 .
livio dalloro , who heads the product design , modeling and simulation research group in the automation and control technology field at siemens corporate technology , sees the spiders as promising representatives of what could someday be a new species of industrial worker .
the omnibot 2000 remote - controlled programmable robot toy could move , talk and carry objects . the cassette player in its chest recorded actions to be taken and speech to be played .
unimate , the first mass - produced industrial robot , begins work at general motors . obeying step - by - step commands stored on a magnetic drum , the 4 , 000 - pound robot arm sequenced and stacked hot pieces of die - cast metal . unimate was the brainchild of joe engelberger and george devol , and originally automated the manufacture of tv picture tubes .
sri international´s shakey robot becomes the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intelligence . equipped with sensing devices and driven by a problem - solving program called strips , the robot found its way around the halls of sri by applying information about its environment to a route . shakey used a tv camera , laser range finder , and bump sensors to collect data , which it then transmitted to a dec pdp - 10 and pdp - 15 . the computer sent commands to shakey over a radio link . shakey could move at a speed of 2 meters per hour .
dirk holz and sven behnke : registration of non - uniform density 3d laser scans for mapping with micro aerial vehicles robotics and autonomous systems , vol . 74 , pp . 318 - 330 , elsevier , december 2015 .
in proceedings of workshop on how to make best use of a human supervisor for semi - autonomous humanoid operation , 14th ieee - ras international conference on humanoid robots ( humanoids ) , madrid , spain , november 2014 .
in : gearing up and accelerating cross - fertilization between academic and industrial robotics research in europe - technology transfer experiments from the echord project , vol 94 of springer tracts in advanced robotics ( star ) , pp . 133 - 153 , 2014 .
c3po and r2d2 play a critical role in 1977’s blockbuster hit movie star wars . throughout the movie c3po served as an ambassador - like robot that is knowledgeable of customs , traditions and over 6 , 000 , 000 languages . c3po ' s companion robot , r2d2 , served as a mechanic , computer interface specialist and co - pilot for the film’s main protagonist luke skywalker .
based on a japanese robot , ibm’s 7535 was controlled by an ibm pc and programmed in ibm’s aml ( “a manufacturing language” ) . it could manipulate objects weighing up to 13 pounds .
official tournaments must follow the judging and awards structure determined by first lego league . although the audience mostly sees teams playing the robot game at tournaments , teams are also being judged on :
it is widely recognised that we are on the verge of a disruptive change in the way mobility will be provided . the australian centre for field robotics is playing a key role by working on a variety of research innovations in air and land transport .
a pentagon directive says that autonomous weapons must employ “appropriate levels of human judgment . ” scientists and human rights experts say the standard is far too broad and have urged that such weapons be subject to “meaningful human control . ”
prof . jennings has undertaken a broad research agenda that continues to have a broad impact on the agent research community . his work is consistently among the most frequently cited agent researchers , both within the agent research community and in the computer science literature in general . he has developed a number of agent - based applications in a variety of domains . furthermore , the gaia methodology for agent - based software engineering , which he developed with michael wooldridge , is well recognized in the field . in addition , prof . jennings has made contributions to areas of automated negotiation and combinatorial auctions . prof . jennings has also been active in other technical areas that overlap with agent research , such as the semantic web and grid computing . prof . jennings has had good success in promoting the transfer of agent - based methods into industry . he acts as chief scientist at lost wax , and consults on a number of commercial agent projects . we believe that his efforts have helped fuel commercial interest in agent - based techniques .
our joint facilities include dedicated robotics research labs , a demonstration farm , an experimental food factory , a fleet of diverse mobile and social robots , advanced compliant robotic manipulators , a swarm of micro robots , and state - of - the - art agricultural robots .
other countries were not far behind , and it was very likely that someone would eventually try to unleash “something like a terminator , ” general selva said , invoking what seems to be a common reference in any discussion on autonomous weapons .
victor scheinman´s stanford arm robot makes a breakthrough as the first successful electrically powered , computer - controlled robot arm . by 1974 , the stanford arm could assemble a ford model t water pump , guiding itself with optical and contact sensors . the stanford arm led directly to commercial production . scheinman then designed the puma series of industrial robots for unimation , robots used for automobile assembly and other industrial tasks .
aria 2 . 8 . 0 , arnl , sonarnl and mogs 1 . 8 . 0 and all other libraries have been released for linux to support the new pioneer lx robot . reedhedges 23 august 2013
husky is an elegantly simple design built out of durable materials with very few moving parts . its high - performance , maintenance - free drivetrain and large lug - tread tires allow husky to tackle challenging real - world terrain . it will last for years of productive research .
the debate within the military is no longer about whether to build autonomous weapons but how much independence to give them . gen . paul j . selva of the air force , the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said recently that the united states was about a decade away from having the technology to build a fully independent robot that could decide on its own whom and when to kill , though it had no intention of building one .
it is hoped that these innovative features will bring us closer to mimicking the impressive flying characteristics seen in insects and to understand the mechanics and control required to create a truly useful and robust indoor flying robot .
outfitted with a mix of sensors and novel software , they might be able to work on an assembly line alongside human workers , alternately plugging cables into electronic devices , testing connections , and polishing screens , or even taking cues from human workers’ movements to transition to new or changing tasks . and all of this would be accomplished without new programming . “what we want to be able to do , ” says georg von wichert , who heads the robotics , autonomous systems and control research group at siemens corporate technology ( ct ) , “is to tell a robot what it is supposed to do , but not how to do it . in short , we want it autonomously to decide what it needs to do to perform the assignment . ”