AAAI 2010
Robotics Exhibition
   and Workshop

Welcome to the Robotics Education track within the Robotics Exhibition and Workshop, part of AAAI 2010.

Schedule and forms

• new!   travel reimbursement form (pdf)    (doc)
• Badge request form (due June 18)
• Badge request form (due June 18)
• Liability form (due June 18)
• Photo release form (due June 18)
• One starting template of the ppt slide for the program (due June 15)
• Text of Monica's email of June 7
• Student housing form (due June 4, 2010)
• Student housing information

• Tuesday, June 15     Submit ppt slide for the workshop program
• Tuesday, June 15     Submit AAAI robot workshop registration
         (that form will be linked here when avaiable)

• Location     Sixth floor, hallway outside Vinings   pdf; page 8

• Monday, July 12
      2010 AAAI robotics workshop (all day)
• Tuesday, July 13
      2010 AAAI robotics exhibition (10:30am - 4:30pm)
• Wednesday, July 14
      2010 AAAI robotics exhibition (10:30am - 4:30pm)
• Thursday, July 15
      Exhibition optional (10:30am - 4:30pm); travel day

Invited Exhibits, 2010

We're delighted to be able to invite the following exhibits to this summer's robotics education track of the AAAI Robotics Exhibition:

Title: An Intensive Introductory Robotics Course Without Prerequisites Exhibitor(s): Julian Mason and Gavin Taylor School: Duke University   Title: Calliope: Mobile manipulation from commodity components Exhibitor(s): Owen Watson and David Touretzky School: Florida A&M University and Carnegie Mellon University   Title: ShakeTime! A persuasive robotic game Exhibitor(s): Marynel Vazquez, Alexander May, Wei-Hsuan Chen School: Carnegie Mellon University   Title: The Intelligent Mobile Projector (IMP) Exhibitor(s): Anis Zaman, Curtis Carmony, and Keith J. O'Hara School: Bard College   Title: PixelLaser: Learning range from texture Exhibitor(s): Michael Leece, Steve Matsumoto, and Zach Dodds School: Harvey Mudd College   Title: An iCreate Simulator Exhibitor(s): Matt Boutell School: Rose Hulman Institute of Technology   Title: Developing a Framework for Team-based Robotics Research Exhibitor(s): Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, and Susan Epstein School: City University of New York (CUNY)   Title: Humanoid Obstacle Run Exhibitor(s): Youngbum Jun, Robert Ellenberg, Paul Oh, and collaborators School: Drexel University and collaborating institutions

Mission Statement

Robots - and the AI algorithms that control them - are quickly maturing as resources that help convey computer science, engineering, and many other curricula. This venue offers an accessible and flexible opportunity for undergraduate, early graduate, or pre-college student teams to design, implement, and demonstrate an autonomous robotic system. The tasks involved can span physically-embodied AI: exploration, intraction, and learning within an unknown environment. In the long run, we hope to motivate hands-on AI robotics investigation both for its own sake and in service to other academic disciplines and educational goals.

This site's URL: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/aaairoboted

Call for Participation

The Robotics Education track invites students and educators to submit robotics projects that will advance the state-of-the-art in robotics- and AI-education, particularly at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Examples include, but are not limited to

• platforms -- novel physical robots for teaching robotics or for using robots to teach AI in compelling, cost-effective, and efficient ways


• software -- new scaffolding that allows more students to engage with physical computation or that allows students to engage with more sophisticates facets of robotics and AI


• curriculum -- pedagogical materials that teach a facet of CS, AI, Robotics, or another field entirely through autonomous, physically-embodied artifacts.


• projects -- unusual, compelling student- or educator-designed projects that demonstrate new opportunities/areas for independent projects. Projects in which robots and AI are used in order to inform or investigate questions in different disciplines are as welcome as AI-specific ones.

Note that although the focus of an exhibit may be software, curricula, or crossdisciplinary student work, the AAAI exhibition is a robotics exhibition, and submissions should include physically instantiated systems -- perferably ones that allow for hands-on interaction by the conference attendees!

Contribute!

Teams and individuals interested in participating should submit a 1-2 page pdf proposal, by April 1, 2010, containing

1. the names and institution(s) of the team member(s);
2. a one-sentence summary of the exhibit;
3. a brief description of what will be shown, the results, along with the underlying motivation and context for the work.

This proposal should be submitted through the overarching AAAI 2010 Robot Exhibition procedure.

EAAI - Educational Advances in AI

In 2010 a new symposium highlighting Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) will run alongside AAAI. Participants in the Robotics Education track of the robot exhibition will have the opportunity to join the robotics-themed session of EAAI. By the same token, EAAI attendees will have the opportunity to take in the robotics exhibition. The EAAI call for participation is here.

Contact us

Please contact the organizer with any questons:

Zach Dodds (Harvey Mudd College) - dodds@cs.hmc.edu