Kevin Godby » robotics

Narcissus Paper Accepted to AAAI 2006

Kevin Godby — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:47:31 +0000

Last semester, I took a course titled Developmental Robotics taught by Alexander Stoytchev. In this class, we had a final project.

Jesse and I teamed up and worked on a project we called Narcissus. Narcissus was an implementation of a self-detection algorithm for robots.

The results of our experiment were promising, so we submitted a student abstract to the AAAI 2006 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, a few months ago. We just heard back from them today, and they accepted our paper.

Our paper, “Robot Self-Recognition Using Conditional Probability–Based Contingency,” is a two-page abstract and can be read online. We received two reviews with very helpful comments. After cleaning up the paper a bit, we will submit a final version in early April. Additionally, we will be at the AAAI Conference in Boston in July. So if anyone’s around Boston and wants to meet up then, let me know!

ISEK Presentation

Kevin Godby — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:03:57 +0000

John Burnett and I presented ISEK to the HCI 575x: Computational Perception course on Wednesday. Overall, the presentation went well, and I hope to that many of the class members will take our offer to use ISEK in their class projects.

Our presentation can be downloaded from here.

Hollerbot

Kevin Godby — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:56:18 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I was stumbling through the Ames FUG mailing lists and found an interesting post by Zach Smith.

Before I got around to mentioning it to the Robotics Club, I found his Hollerbot project posted to a number of blogs.

Anyway, he’s now joined the ISU Robotics Club. We’ve shown him our VADR project (which is quite similar to what he’d like to do), and I think he’s going to help us out with improving it.

ARK Architecture

Kevin Godby — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:54:04 +0000

For our autonomous go-kart, we’ve decided to use an architecture similar to the one outlined in this paper.¹

I’ll write more about it tomorrow.

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¹ Armstrong, D., Crane, C., Novick, D., Wit, J., English, R., Adsit, P., Shahady, D. “A Modular, Scalable, Architecture For Unmanned Vehicles,” Proceedings of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Unmanned Systems 2000 Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 2000.

ISU Robotics Club

Kevin Godby — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 06:57:21 +0000

I went to the ISU Robotics Club meeting this evening. They gave a nice pitch, so I think I may join. I’ll be going to their meeting tomorrow night to see if there’s anything I can do to help with their ARK project.

Robot News Aggregator

Kevin Godby — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:57:57 +0000

Since I’ve recently been appointed the ISU Robotics Club’s webmaster, I’ve started to work on the new website. I just finished the basics of a robot news aggregator, which collects RSS feeds from various robotics-related news sites, and links it all on one page.

I still need to work on the design of the page, of course (pretty it up). I’d also like to try to do some clustering—folding all the near-same stories into one entry. That way, you don’t read the same story three times.