AAAI-07 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition to be held on July 23-25, 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)

第16届AAAI年度移动机器人大赛和展览会将于2007年7月23-25日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行，同时举行第22届国际人工智能会议(AAAI-07)。移动机器人项目以两种方式服务于研究界。首先，它为展示人工智能和机器人领域的最新研究提供了一个场所。其次，机器人项目活动为本科生和研究生提供了一个极好的机会，让他们接触到人工智能的最新研究，并让他们在研究生涯的早期建立有价值的联系。从解决典型机器人问题的新方法到新兴领域的开创性研究，移动机器人项目为移动机器人领域的各种项目提供了一个论坛。近年来，移动机器人平台的可及性越来越高，功能合理的平台以相对较低的成本提供，并且不需要大量努力来构建硬件或软件架构。一些参与者展示了一系列使用商用机器人的项目，而另一些参与者则展示了独特的建筑。随着机器人变得更容易接触到，机器人程序能够展示来自广泛贡献者的工作。在过去的两年里，该活动越来越多地促进了鼓励人机交互以及在自然人类环境中适应和学习的研究项目。这一趋势将在2007年继续下去，该计划将包括两个挑战：语义机器人视觉(SRVC)和人-机器人交互(HRI)。这是一项资金，用于支持来自美国的学生团队前往HRI挑战并参与HRI挑战，该挑战将提供一个结构化的框架，允许团队在七个预定义类别中直接竞争，这些类别旨在实现人与机器人的交互，并涉及本质上整合了感知和行动的活动。机器人可以进入六个不同的类别：对人类动作和/或手势的识别和反应；情感识别和适当的情感表达；自然语言理解和动作执行；通过人类教学以及随后对人、对象、位置或动作的识别和分类进行感知学习；感知、推理和动作；以及共享注意力、共同工作空间和意图检测。第七个也是最后一个类别是整合挑战--即展示了一种扩展的多模式互动，至少结合了上述六个类别中的三个。评委将评估所采用的人工智能技术及其复杂程度。此次活动的结果将通过AAAI-07会议记录中的摘要、移动机器人研讨会记录中的研究论文和AI杂志上的摘要文章来传播。广泛的影响：一年一度的AAAI移动机器人竞赛和展览是唯一在机器人和AI社区之间建立和维护重要联系的主要场所。因此，这些事件有可能对机器人学教育和研究产生重大影响。展品将确定和宣传创新的教育项目，展示移动机器人如何在课堂和研究实验室中用作激励领域。主办方将特别努力为活动招募参与者，特别是针对学生群体和经常在外地任职人数不足的机构。

The 16th Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition will be held July 23-25, 2007, in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07). The mobile robot program serves the research community in two ways. First, it provides a venue for demonstrations of the latest research in AI and robotics. Second, robot program activities serve as a terrific opportunity for exposing undergraduate and graduate students to the latest research in AI and for allowing them to make valuable connections early in their research careers. From new approaches to canonical robotics problems to groundbreaking research in emerging areas, the mobile robot program provides a forum for a diverse range of projects in mobile robotics. Recent years have witnessed a rise in the accessibility of mobile robot platforms with reasonably capable platforms being available for relatively low cost and not requiring a substantial effort to build hardware or software architectures. Some participants exhibit a range of projects using commodity robots, while others showcased unique construction. As robots become more accessible, the robot program is able to showcase work from a wide range of contributors. For the past two years, the event has increasingly promoted research projects that encourage human-machine interaction as well as adaptation and learning in natural human settings. This trend is one that will continue in 2007, where the program will include two challenges: Semantic Robot Vision (SRVC) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).This is funding to support travel to and participation by student teams from the United States in the HRI challenge, which will provide a structured framework that allows teams to compete directly in seven predefined categories that are aimed at human-robot interaction and involve activities that intrinsically integrate perception and action. There are six separate categories that the robots can enter: recognition of and reaction to human motions and/or gesture; emotion recognition and appropriate emotion expression; natural language understanding and action execution; perceptual learning through human teaching and subsequent, recognition and categorization of people, objects, locations or actions; perception, reasoning, and action; and shared attention, common workspace, intent detection. The seventh and final category is the integration challenge - that is, a demonstration of an extended, multimodal interaction that combines at least three of the above six categories. Judges will evaluate the AI techniques employed and their level of sophistication. The results of the event will be disseminated through abstracts in the AAAI-07 conference proceedings, through research papers in the proceedings of the mobile robot workshop, and via a summary article in AI Magazine.Broader Impacts: The annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition is the only major venue that establishes and maintains the vital connection between the robotics and AI communities. Thus, these events have the potential to significantly impact robotics education and research. Exhibits will identify and publicize innovative educational programs that show how mobile robotics can be used as a motivating domain in the classroom and the research lab. The organizers will make special efforts to recruit participants for the event that specifically target student populations and institutions that are often under-represented in the field.