1. Homework 1 Intelligent Robotics 1, ECE 478/578 Deadline, October 15 This Homework is Group Project Will be incorporated into your final project

2. 1.Create Powerpoint presentation with effects, figures, pictures, videos, etc A)about Copernicus – for those in Copernicus group B)About Frankenstein Monster and PSU – for those in Monster Group and in stage design group. C)With Quantum Debate paly – for those in Quantum Debate Play robots (Einstein, Newton, Marie Curie, Cat and Bohr). 2.This slides can be done as in my PPT slides but must have better effects and be more theatrical. Record your voice – we need more male voices. 3.Add questions and answers in Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Indian, etc. (we have Latin and German already). 4.Use Kinect-based control of PPT slides software from my class and/or from internet. 5.This presentation is some form of a State Machine. This machine can be deterministic, probabilistic of fuzzy. Or mixed. It can have several machine communicating with one another. 6.The program can be written in any language of your choice, it should use PPT, and possible VBA if it would help. 7.One way is to adapt the software to transform gestures to PPT commands.

3. Simplified State Machines of robot plays M1. State Machine of Copernicus M2. State Machine of Regular Linear play Initial slide with questions Slide with answer to question 1 Slide with answer to second question Answer to last question Clear button Question button Slide with behavior 1 Slide with behavior 2 Slide with behavior 3 Slide with last behavior This is model of simple question answering This is model of simple linear play like in standard theatre and Great Quantum Debate play Combined M1 and M2. Answer to a question is a Regular Linear play Initial slide with questions Slide with answer to question 1 Slide with answer to second question Answer to last question Question button This is model of simple question answering Slide with behavior 1 Slide with behavior 2 Slide with behavior 3 Slide with last behavior Other combinations are of course possible

4. Simplified State Machines of robot plays M1. State Machine of Copernicus M2. State Machine of Regular Linear play Initial slide with questions Slide with answer to question 1 Slide with answer to second question Answer to last question Clear button Question button Slide with behavior 1 Slide with behavior 2 Slide with behavior 3 Slide with last behavior This is model of simple question answering This is model of simple linear play like in standard theatre and Great Quantum Debate play Combined M1 and M2. Answer to a question is a Regular Linear play Initial slide with questions Slide with answer to question 1 Slide with answer to second question Answer to last question Question button This is model of simple question answering Slide with behavior 1 Slide with behavior 2 Slide with behavior 3 Slide with last behavior Other combinations are of course possible

5. Simplified State Machine of interactive robot play M3. State Machine with interaction (similar to one explained in class for Paradise Lost) Decision for input variable B Behavior $r Slide with behavior 1 Slide with behavior 2 Slide with behavior 3 Decision Node Question A Behavior 1 Slide with behavior 2 Slide with behavior 3 Slide with behavior 4 Slide with last behavior Positive answer Negative answer This is equivalent to Finite State Machine or general Flowchart Positive answer Negative answer The decision variables are inputs, for instance from sensors or from “pressing PPT buttons”

6. Software for this project Kinect processing software (exist) Kinect Human gestures Convert to PPT instruction (exist) Pressing PPT button PPT slide effects sounds Fuzzy logic, Boolean Logic, Probabilistic logic Feedback loop Memory, fuzzy of boolean Action of the robot (signals to motors) Physical inputs of the robot (from sensors of human controls, or gestures from Kinect) Part in pink is new. It can be written in any language, perhaps the easiest is to use the same language in which Kinect Processing and conversion was written (color grey) First stage of homework second stage of homework Third stage of the homework

7. Remarks 1.There are many people working on the same part of homework (like all people from Copernicus team) 2.The homeworks for all students (Copernicus team, quantum debate teams and Monster team) in the class are quite similar. 3.Software for Kinect exists and can be also found in internet. 4.Partial credit will be given for partial solutions. 5.Creativity will be rewarded. 6.Ask me questions if not clear.