Symbol Recognition and Artificial Emotion for Making an Autonomoius Robot Attend the AAAI Conference.
François Michaud, Dominic Létourneau, Jonathan Audet, François Bélanger · National Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2000
LABORIUS is a young research laboratory interested in designing autonomous systems that can assist human in real life tasks. To do so, robots require some sort of “social intelligence”, giving them the ability to interact with various types of agents (humans, animals, robots and other physical agents). Our team of robots is made of six Pioneer 2 robots, three indoor and three outdoor models, with each robot equipped with 16 sonars, a compass, a gripper, a camera with a frame grabber and a Fast Track Vision System, a RF Ethernet-modem connection and a Pentium 233 MHz PC-104 onboard computer. The programming environment used is Ayllu (Werger 2000), a tool for development of behavior-based control systems for intelligent mobile robots.