Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

The PLAYBOT Project

1995

Conference Paper

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The paper overviews the PLAYBOT project, a long-term, large-scale research program whose goal is to provide a directable robot which may enable physically disabled children to access and manipulate toys. This domain is the first test domain but there is nothing inherent in the design of PLAYBOT that prohibits its extension to other tasks. The research is guided by several important goals: vision is the primary sensor; vision is task directed; the robot must be able to visually search its environment; object and event recognition are basic capabilities; environments must be natural and dynamic; users and environments are assumed to be unpredictable; task direction and reactivity must be smoothly integrated; and safety is of high importance. The emphasis of the research has been on vision for the robot; this is the most challenging research aspect and the major bottleneck to the development of intelligent robots. Since the control framework is behavior-based, the visual capabilities of PLAYBOT are described in terms of visual behaviors. Many of the components of PLAYBOT are briefly described and several examples of implemented sub-systems are shown. The paper concludes with a description of the current overall system implementation and complete example of PLAYBOT performing a simple task.

Author(s): Tsotsos, J. K. and Dickinson, S. and Jenkin, M. and Milios, E. and Jepson, A. and Down, B. and Amdur, E. and Stevenson, S. and Black, M. and Metaxas, D. and Cooperstock, J. and Culhane, S. and Nuflo, F. and Verghese, G. and Wai, W. and Wilkes, D. and Ye, Y.
Book Title: Proc. IJCAI Workshop on AI Applications for Disabled People
Year: 1995
Month: August

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Address: Montreal

Links: project

BibTex

@inproceedings{Black:IJCAI:1995,
  title = {The PLAYBOT Project},
  author = {Tsotsos, J. K. and Dickinson, S. and Jenkin, M. and Milios, E. and Jepson, A. and Down, B. and Amdur, E. and Stevenson, S. and Black, M. and Metaxas, D. and Cooperstock, J. and Culhane, S. and Nuflo, F. and Verghese, G. and Wai, W. and Wilkes, D. and Ye, Y.},
  booktitle = {Proc. IJCAI Workshop on AI Applications for Disabled People},
  address = {Montreal},
  month = aug,
  year = {1995},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {8}
}