Knowledge representation for a trash collecting robot: results from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium
The attendees of the Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Autonomous Systems Symposium1 applied their collective intelligence in an attempt to solve one of the universe's great challenges: how do you autonomously collect garbage from an airport facility? The attendees divided into three pre-selected, cross-disciplinary groups that were headed by Stephen Balakirsky (NIST), Elena Messina (NIST), and Scott Smith (Boeing). The teams were given limited direction and 3h to develop a solution to the problem. Results from the groups were briefed the following morning at a plenary session.
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