A possible task of a team of rescue robots is not only to indicate to human rescue workers where victims are located, but also to indicate the areas that are cleared. These cleared areas are searched by the robot team to such extend, that they can guarantee that there are no victims behind the boundary of the area.
To be able to make this sort of claims, the robots need to have knowledge the natural boundaries of areas. Important concepts as doorways should be recognized and related to exploration frontiers. The assignment is to generate and use the knowledge the natural boundaries of areas.
Final article: 'Natural Boundaries'
by Merlijn van Ittersum, Xingrui-Ji, Luis Gonzalez and Laurentiu Stancu, February 1th, 2007.
Looking-at-people: intelligent surveillance systems
Wojtek Zajdel
The primary objective is to develop a probabilistic algorithm that takes the responses of
individual human body part detectors as input, groups these responses into a valid human configuration and output the image regions where a person is located.
Final article: 'Detecting humans by combining human partdetectors in an urban setting' by Sanne Korzec, Henco Visser and Marcel Goksun, February 1th, 2007.
RoboCup Junior Samples
Peter van Lith
A simulator which has been built in previous years
for the ‘Body Hopper’ project now will be used to develop a number of small demo
programs to play soccer and possibly the rescue application.
Because we would like 9 year olds to participate in these games, we need a very
simple programming language that translates commands into Java code. The existing
RoboSoccer system will form the basis for this. This Java code is then executed by the
simulator, allowing the virtual robot to be tested. Subsequently the Java program is
loaded into the `real' robot. For this project we are using a small omnidirectional
robot and a simple two wheeled robot.
Final article: 'Primitive functions for RoboCup Junior'
by Nazanin Kermani, Bart Buter and Yasin Yilmaz, February 1th, 2007.
Schedule
Three times plenair meetings will be scheduled.
- week 2: kick-off meeting (Monday 8th, 9:00-11:00), I.201
- week 3: progress meeting (Tuesday 16th, 13:30-15:00, I.201)
- week 5: deadline draft article (Monday 29th, 9:00, pdf on website)
- week 5: deadline review article (Tuesday 30th, 12:00, see form)
- week 5: deadline final article (Thursday 1th, 16:00, pdf on website)
- week 5: mini-conference (Friday 2nd, 10:00-12:00, P.014)
The other events in the schedule are obsolete.
More details will be explained at the kick-off meeting.
The mini-conference at Friday 2th February in room P.014 (Euclides) will have the following schedule:
| time |
group |
remarks |
| 10:00-10:30 |
RoboCup Junior Samples |
|
| 10:30-11:00 |
Natural Boundaries |
|
| 11:00-11:30 |
Looking at People |
|
| 11:30-12:00 |
grades |
|
