team description:
The MetroBots team was founded in 2002 as a collaboration between
faculty at City University of New York, Rutgers University, and
Columbia University to produce a RoboCup
4-legged league team. Since July 2005, MetroBots only consists of
faculty and students from City University of New York.
We are using Sony AIBO
robots to experiment with embodied agents, various forms of
machine learning (including evolutionary computation and reinforcement
learning) probabilistic planning, agent architectures and multi-agent
coordination and communication issues.
team members:
- Prof Simon Parsons,
Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Prof Elizabeth Sklar,
Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Rachel Adler, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
- Aleksandr Barkan, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Marvin Charles, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Kervon Gibson, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Joel Kammet, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
- Marek Marcinkiewicz, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
- Tuna Ozgelen, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
activities
2007
We qualified for the international RoboCup at the Georgia Institute of Technology held in July.
2006
In 2006 we took a break from competing at RoboCup but had a couple of papers in the RoboCup Symposium.
The MetroBots AIBOs were used in teaching Prof Parsons course CIS 32.5: Introduction to Robotics at
Brooklyn College.
2005
In Spring 2005 we partcipated in the RoboCup American Open at the Georgia Institute of Technology and placed fourth.
The MetroBots AIBOs were again used as the basis of class projects in
Prof Parsons' course CSC 84010: Introduction to Robotics
at the CUNY Graduate
Center.
2004
We participated in the RoboCup American Open
at the University of New Orleans in Spring of 2004 and in
RoboCup 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal in July (during the European Championship).
The MetroBots AIBOs were also used as the basis of class projects in
Prof Parsons' course CSC 84010: Introduction to Robotics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
2003
We took part in both the
RoboCup American Open
at CMU in Spring of 2003 and
RoboCup 2003 in Padua Italy in July of that year.
The MetroBots AIBOs were also used as the basis of class projects in
Prof Parsons' course CSC 84020: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems at the CUNY Graduate Center.
publications:
You can download:
and a short review of different approaches to
localization that we wrote while revising our Localization code in
2004-2005.
Some RoboCup-related publications are also available:
- Ozgelen, A. T., Sklar, E. and Parsons, S. Automatic acquisition of
robot motion and sensor models, Proceedings of
the International RoboCup Symposium, Bremen Germany, 2006.
- Marcinkiewicz, M., Kunin, M., Parsons, S., Sklar, E., and Raphan,
T. Towards a methodology for stabilizing the gaze of a quadrupedal
robot, Proceedings of the International RoboCup
Symposium, Bremen Germany, 2006.
- Frias-Martinez, V., Sklar, E., and Parsons, S. Exploring auction mechanisms for
role assignment in teams of autonomous robots,
Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium, 2004.
- Frias-Martinez, V., Marcinkiewicz, M., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Using multiagent coordination
techniques in the RoboCup four-legged league, Proceedings of the
AAAI Spring Symposium on Bridging the Multiagent and Multirobot
Research Gap, Stanford, 2004.
- Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. Teaching
AI using LEGO mindstorms, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium
on Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Education, Stanford, 2004.
- Sklar, E., Parsons, S., and Stone, P. RoboCup in Higher Education: A
Preliminary Report, Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium,
Padua, 2003.
software:
You can download the source code from the MetroBots teams that
participated in RoboCup in:
and the code used as a
starting point by Parsons' students in the Introduction to Robotics
course in Fall 2004.
views of and from aibo's world:
Last modified: Mon Mar 1 21:14:32 EST 2003