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

第16届年度AAAI移动的机器人竞赛和展览会将于2007年7月23日至25日在不列颠哥伦比亚省（加拿大）的温哥华举行，同时举行第22届人工智能国际会议（AAAI-07）。 移动的机器人计划以两种方式为研究界服务。 首先，它提供了一个展示人工智能和机器人技术最新研究的场所。 其次，机器人项目活动是一个极好的机会，让本科生和研究生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。 从规范机器人问题的新方法到新兴领域的突破性研究，移动的机器人计划为移动的机器人领域的各种项目提供了一个论坛。 近年来已经见证了移动的机器人平台的可访问性的上升，其中合理能力的平台以相对低的成本可用，并且不需要大量的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品机器人的项目，而其他人则展示了独特的建筑。 随着机器人变得越来越容易接近，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，该方案将包括两个挑战：语义机器人视觉（SRVC）和人机交互（HRI）。这是资助来自美国的学生团队前往和参与HRI挑战，这将提供一个结构化的框架，允许团队直接在七个预定义的类别中竞争，这些类别针对的是人类，机器人交互，并涉及本质上整合感知和行动的活动。 机器人可以进入六个独立的类别：对人类运动和/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;通过人类教学和随后的感知学习，对人，物体，位置或动作的识别和分类;感知，推理和动作;以及共享注意力，公共工作空间，意图检测。 第七个也是最后一个类别是整合挑战--也就是说，展示一种扩展的、多模式的互动，这种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。 本次活动的成果将通过AAAI-07会议记录中的摘要、移动的机器人研讨会记录中的研究论文以及AI杂志中的摘要文章进行传播。 一年一度的AAAI移动的机器人竞赛和展览是建立和维护机器人和人工智能社区之间重要联系的唯一主要场所。 因此，这些事件有可能对机器人教育和研究产生重大影响。 展览将确定和宣传创新的教育计划，展示如何移动的机器人技术可以作为一个激励领域在课堂和研究实验室。 组织者将作出特别努力，专门针对在该领域往往代表性不足的学生群体和机构招募参加者。

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.