Autonomous Intelligent Mobile Robotics Jerry Weinberg Associate Professor Computer Science What is a Robot?

What is An Intelligent Robot? An autonomous system which exists in the physical world, can sense its environment, and can act on it to achieve some goals.

Humans vs. Robots PeopleRobots BonesMechanical Structure MusclesEffectors SensesSensors Digestion/RespirationAC/DC Power BrainComputer KnowledgeProgram

Robot Body: LEGO Pieces

LEGO Mindstorm RCX 3 Output or Motor Ports (A, B, C) 3 Input or Sensor Prots (1, 2, 3) IR Transmitter/Reciever

Programming Your Bot

Autonomous Mobile Robots have to Solve Difficult Problems Where am I? –Localization Problem How do I get there? –Path Finding Problem How do I find the door? –Object Recognition Problem What are you asking me to do? –Language Understanding Problem How can I tell you the answer to your question? –Speech Generation Problem

Where are the Robots? Industrial Robots

Where are the Robots? Service Robots

Where are the Robots? Exploration

Where are the Robots? Medicine

Where are the Robots? Consumer Robots

Why Study Robotics? Integrated Systems Engineering –Mechanical Engineering –Electrical Engineering –Computer Science Continental's electronic stability system analyzes data from many sensors. When the sensors indicate a driver is losing control, the system steadies the vehicle by braking one or more wheels or by slowing down the engine.

Why Study Robotics? Real-time Systems

Why Study Robotics? Multitasking

Spectrum of Robot Control

Reactive/Behavior-Based Robot Control Ignores world models “The world is its own best model” SenseAct

Situated Activity Design Robot actions are based on the situations in which it finds itself Perception characterized by recognizing what situations it is in and choosing an appropriate action

Finite State Machine

The Game RoboCraft

Finding Inspiration Constructopedia Nature Web roboti.cs.siue.edu