I got the rejection email from AAMAS last week for my paper on task abandonment for my bounty hunting system. However, I sort of was expecting this as it needs some more theoretical basis. So, I have to work on that. In the mean time there is still IROS! That is in Korea :). The… Continue reading Starting on IROS 2016 paper
Category: Robots
Amazing last week or so
So, I thought I’d write about the past few days as they were quite exciting, eventful, and since I’m forgetful I don’t want to forget. I’ll begin of course at the beginning. Which probably isn’t really the beginning but oh well. The excitement started 12/12/15. I went home to hanover that Friday (12/11) and had… Continue reading Amazing last week or so
Autonomous Vehicles
So, I’ve been thinking rather small lately. Especially with that autonomous mixer idea, I mean pathetic, am I right :p. I really want to go back to the reason I wanted to get into AI and multiagent systems which is making autonomous vehicles! So, I’m sure everyone knows that car manufacturers and even Google and Baidu… Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles
Natural Language LfD & RL
So, I’m working with Ermo on applying reinforcement learning to text based games. So, I was wondering if eventually if our method works if we could do text based learning from demonstration with reinforcement learning? Basically instead of the user pressing buttons they would describe what they wanted the system to do using english sentences.… Continue reading Natural Language LfD & RL
Bounty Hunting and Cloud Robotics
Cloud robotics needs very stringent QoS guarantees and in certain cases is highly reliant on location to satisfy some of the requirements. So, I was thinking a while back that maybe a bounty hunting based cloud robotics system could work like: The robot registers with the bounty hunting service the bondsman (highly distributed might have… Continue reading Bounty Hunting and Cloud Robotics
Directed Reading
I’m planning my directed reading class this coming semester. So, basically I have/get to come up with an entire semester’s worth of material. I might be able to make a class out of it by the time I’m done 🙂 haha. My subjects are focusing on the areas I want to explore with the bounty hunting… Continue reading Directed Reading
Gamification of Gate Creation :)
David just connected a wii-remote to one of the darwins and is using the gyro info from the remote to adjust the hip pitch and roll to keep the robot from falling on the astroturf! Basically doing LFD. The plan is to create a function that will appropriately set the hip pitch/roll based off of… Continue reading Gamification of Gate Creation 🙂
Vagrant
Might want to checkout Vagrant (a tool that lets you define, and re-use system environments). https://www.vagrantup.com/ Especially for the robots…
Tom Bihn Robot Soccer Jerseys
Today was eventful. Sean, my professor, comes in this morning and tells us this story about how he had discovered that the company that makes his backpack had been hacked. He notified the company and told them about it and the company gave him a $250 gift certificate. Which was nice for him because he… Continue reading Tom Bihn Robot Soccer Jerseys
Satellites and houses
This is cool. He discusses the concept of contracting and subcontracting for building houses and puts it into the perspective of sattelites and task allocation. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/339034/1.hasCoversheetVersion/jvdhorst_thesis.pdf