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****************** ROBOTICS INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES ******************

The 15th Gate: The Mobot Awards Ceremony and Wrap-Up

Illah Nourbakhsh
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

7500 Wean Hall
Talk 3:30 pm
Refreshments 3:15 pm

Abstract

This year, the Mobot Races will end with the traditional 15th Gate
offering of Mobot experiences and awards presentation. High-scoring
Mobot entrants will be asked to describe their robots, video clips of
the competition will be shown, and awards will be distributed.


Speaker Biography

An autonomous robotic agent consists of a real physical artifact that
includes perception, action, and reasoning capabilities. The robot
needs to be able to perceive features of the world and to navigate
towards the achievement of its goals. Building an autonomous robotic
agent is a challenging task of great interest to the advance of the
scientific areas of robotics and artificial intelligence.

The Mobot competition is designed to allow the participants to explore
some of the main technical aspects involved in building an autonomous
robotic agent. Concretely, in the Mobot competition, the robot needs to
follow a white line on the ground outdoors along a specific path. This
task includes a set of technical difficulties, including the mechanical
construction of the robot to allow for outdoors navigation on non-flat
terrain; the development of robot sensors to robustly detect the
relevant features of the task, in particular the white line; and
reasoning rules that allow the robot to select the appropriate actions.
Participants in the competition successfully acquire on-hands research
experience in this full range of scientific challenges.


Speaker Appointments

For appointments, please contact the speaker, Illah Nourbakhsh at
illah@ri.cmu.edu.

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