Sixth Annual Mobile Robot Competition

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WELCOME

Welcome to the home page for the Sixth Annual Mobile Robot Competition, which will take place as part of AAAI-97, the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, along with the AAAI-97 Robot Exhibition. If you've been here before, take a look at What's New in our web to save some time.

This competition has been held in conjunction with the AAAI annual conference since 1992, attracting entries from a variety of educational and research organizations. Each year, multiple events have been staged to allow different types of indoor mobile robots to demonstrate their capabilities. For information on last year's competition, see the Fifth Annual Mobile Robot Competition web site.

Other robot-related sites:

Results of Competition (order of finish)

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What's New

8/3/97

• Results

6/24/97

• Email in archives has some event specifics (colors of objects, etc.), and will continue to get updates up to late July. These future updates won't generally be noted here in the "What's New" section anymore, so subscribe and check your email!
• Picture of the University of Minnesota entry.
• Rules committee changes for Home Vacuum event.

6/5/97

• Archives contain lots of email regarding Life on Mars rules, opportunities for exposure at invited talk and exhibition area. (If you're not getting all this email, you must not be subscribed.)
• Threaded topics in archives

5/22/97

• Clarification of Home Vacuum rules -- the kitchen is only used by Find the Remote.

5/19/97

• Some new pictures of equipment in participants page
• New layout for Home Vacuum and Find the Remote events

5/10/97

• Update to Life on Mars

5/2/97

• Hors D'ouevres event rules finalized (Life on Mars and Home Vacuum events are already finalized)
• Messages in archives regarding equipment requests, updated list of participants

3/10/97

• Preliminary rules for Hors D'ouevres event
• More new participants, email in archives

2/14/97

• Links to the AAAI-97 Robot Exhibition
• Updated rules for Event 1 (Life on Mars)
• Six new participants
• Messages in archives, topics including items above, donor robots, scholarships, and proceedings

2/3/97

• Updated rules for Event 2 (Find the Remote) and Event 3 (Home Vacuum)
• Email archive update, including original text of new rules (above), DARPA scholarship assitance, and warnings about when these pages and the AAAI97 mailing list may be down

12/6-9/96

• Rules committee chairs named. Also listed in archives.
• Opportunity posted to participate in another exhibition (Autonomous Agents '97).
• Apple, Custom Robotics, and Georgia Tech are the latest participants to provide information.

11/14/96

• All four events to be held. See Update on Competition in archives.

11/8/96

• Feedback on rules in email archives, as well as exhibition information.
• We have our first response from a likely participant (University of Waterloo), with a nice picture.

10/21-25/96

• Added instructions to subscribe to mailing list.
• Added intent-to-compete form for interested participants.
  NOTE: Interested parties should subscribe AND submit their intent-to-compete form!
• Added draft rules for events.

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Competition contact info:

Robot Competition Co-chairs:

Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory (email arkin@cc.gatech.edu )
Jim Firby, University of Chicago, Artificial Intelligence Lab (email firby@cs.uchicago.edu)

Robot Exhibition Chair:

Holly Yanco, MIT, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (email holly@ai.mit.edu)

Fundraising Chair:

Robin Murphy, Colorado School of Mines, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (email rmurphy@mines.edu)

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