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| Illah R. Nourbakhsh is
an Assistant Professor of Robotics in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie
Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from
Stanford University in 1996. He is co-founder of the Toy Robots Initiative
at The Robotics Institute. His current research projects include electric
wheelchair sensing devices, robot learning, theoretical robot architecture,
believable robot personality, visual navigation and robot locomotion.
His past research has included protein structure prediction under
the GENOME project, software reuse, interleaving planning and execution
and planning and scheduling algorithms. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
he was a member of the New Millenium Rapid Prototyping Team for the
design of autonomous spacecraft. He is a founder and chief scientist
of Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc. |
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Robotics
Artificial Intelligence Meets the Real World
Monday May 10 –
Friday May 14, 2004
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center
(OCCE)
University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus
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This course presents an overview of the challenges and progress
that has been achieved in the field of Mobile Robotics, most
specifically Human-Interactive Social Robotics. The history
of mobile robot cognition and design will be covered, followed
by the sensors and actuators available for today's roboticists
as well as technologies of the future. Robotic vision, range-based
sensing, closed loop motor control, chassis kinematics, terrainability,
long-term reliability and human-robot interaction are all topics
that will be covered. Specific modern applications, including
the Robocup robotic soccer matches and the USAR disaster recovery
projects will be studied as focal areas of mobile robotics research
throughout the
university community.
Due to Mobile Robotic's interdisciplinary nature, as a fusion
of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer
science, and cognitive psychology, no one depth area of knowledge
is required as a prerequisite to this course. Instead, basic
mechanism and computational intuition will be developed and
used throughout the seminar.
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The Seminar Reading List:
These books and articles supplied by OSLEP.
* Mobile Robotics, Illah Nourbakhsh,
MIT Press, March 2004
* Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence,
by Hans Moravec
* Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
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