LTU AIBO Research Group

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LTU AIBO Research Group

• Alumni Association Support Request
• Tuesday February 8, 2005

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Introductions
LTU Home of the first AIBO soccer team in
Michigan! Team Jason Lo, AJ Ureel, John Girard,
Steve Kryskalla, Jeremiah Savage, Rick
Dudley Faculty Advisor Chan-Jin Chung
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Agenda

• RoboCup and Educational Research
• About AIBO
• Support Request
• Student and University Benefits
• Demo
• QA

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RoboCup

• RoboCup is an international medium to advance
  research and education in the areas of Robotics,
  Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.
• RoboCup
• Simulation
• Small Size
• Middle Size
• Four-Legged
• Humanoid

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RoboCup

• The Challenge Utilizing the selected standard
  platform (AIBO), develop a team of fully
  autonomous robots that can effectively
  demonstrate independent decision within the
  context of a game of soccer.
• LTU Team Focus
• Computer Vision (Object Recognition)
• Artificial Intelligence (Autonomy Strategy)
• Motion
• Inter-Robot Communication

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About AIBO
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About AIBO

• Sony Proprietary OS
• Complex Object Communication

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About AIBO

• Object Recognition
• LTU Approach
• AIBO Camera Image
• LTU Median Filter
• LTU Color Recognition

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Support Request

• 2,050 for travel expenses to the American Open
  and for the Mind 2 Memory Stick.
• RoboCup American Open 2005, Atlanta May 7 - 10
• RoboCup World Championship 2005, Osaka July 11-19

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Benefits

• Educational Research
• Hands On Implementation of Robotics and Computer
  Science Theory
• Artificial Intelligence
• Robotic Vision
• Kinetics (Motion)
• Multi-Agent Collaboration
• Real-Time Decision Making
• Personal University Benefits
• Team Work
• International Exposure

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Demo

• Box Step

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QA