Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ECSE and Cognitive Science Departments, and Center for Automation Technologies and Systems

Aibo Independent Study Fall 2005

CATS Greeting Dogs

Supervised by Professors John T. Wen and Bram Van Heuveln

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9/12 Each group gets a cabinet key, an Aibo programming memory stick, and assigned an Aibo

9/19 (John out of town) at least demonstrate the use of the Tekkotsu monitor, commication between laptop and Teekkotsu, and reading of sensors (video, joint angles, touch sensor, IR, microphone) FIFO schedule, LAIKA schedule, Selma’s comments

9/26 demonstrate a simple behavior (motion based on sensor input) FIFO LAIKA

10/3 FIFO LAIKA FIFO video: walking towards color target

10/10 FIFO LAIKA

10/17 meeting FIFO LAIKA

10/24 midterm presentation FIFO LAIKA

10/31 FIFO LAIKA

Figure 1 FIFO State diagram

11/7 FIFO LAIKA

11/14 FIFO LAIKA LAIKA videos: no feedback, with wall as feedback, seek wall and follow the wall

11/21 FIFO LAIKA

11/28 FIFO LAIKA

12/5 FIFO LAIKA

12/9 final demo + presentation + report

Team 1: FIFO

(Gabe Malloy CSE Senior, Elizabeth DeLouise CSE/PSYC/M&M Sophomore, Matt Wilson CSE/M&M Sophomore, Trevor Housten CS/PSYC/M&M Freshman)

Team 2: LAIKA

(Manoj Mathew MANE Sophomore, Jimmy Zhang CSE/CS Junior, Erin Spencer CS/PSYC/M&M Junior)

Related Links:

Spring 2005 independent study

SUNY Albany Aibo robot course (Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski with TA Rob Salkin)

2004

2005

Master student: Christopher Colasuonno

Sony AIBO OPEN-R SDK
Tekkotsu (CMU)
AIBO Soccer (CMU)

Robocup 2005

U Penn Robocup team