iNewton Reading – Issues &Topics
If you are not sure what issues in intelligent robotics are of interest to you, below is a list of issues and topics.
1. Proper role of knowledge representation
a. Read Rodney Brooks: Intelligence Without Representation
b. Read David Kirsh: Today the Earwig, Tomorrow Man?
c. Choose a 3rd view
2. Symbol grounding problem for robots – lots written, no specific recommendations yet, although I expect Stevan Harnad’s article might be a good launch point: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.sgproblem.html
3. Cognition & robotics
a. Start with Stevan Harnad: To Cognize Is to Categorize – http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11725/4/catconf.pdf
b. Search on: “cognition and robotics” and “robotics and cognition”
c. Check out Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics: http://cor-lab.de/
d. Read this review article: http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Previous_Projects/Cognitive_Systems/Robotics_and_Cognition/robotics%20and%20cognition.pdf
4. Emergent behavior & robotics
a. For background read wiki article on emergent behavior
b. One avenue – follow the classical simulations of Craig Reynolds & followers: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1987/boids.html
using CiteSeer to find citations to his 1987 paper
c. Gain background by tracking current knowledge of E.B. in nature: search on Read up on Melhuish’s puck sorting robots: http://www.open2.net/bluesky/ants.htm
d. Gain background by tracking current knowledge of E.B. in nature: search on “emergent behavior in nature”.
5. Swarm robotics
a. Again wiki article gives you a start
b. Then you have Swarm Robitics.org: http://www.swarm-robotics.org/
c. And the Swarm Robotics conferences: http://swarm-robotics.org/SAB06/
d. And swarm-bots: http://www.swarm-bots.org/
e. And MIT’s Lab: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jamesm/swarm.php &
http://evgenymorozov.com/blog/?p=29
f. And Animals to Animats conference: http://www.isab.org/confs/
6. Behavior-based robotics
a. Start with wiki article, or
b. Start with Ronald Arkin’s book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8196
c. or, Start with Stefano Carpin’s overview: https://eng.ucmerced.edu/people/scarpin/slides/BBR.pdf
d. Continue at Idaho National Lab: http://www.inl.gov/adaptiverobotics/behaviorbasedrobotics/biology.shtml
e. Or choose your own direction
7. Study communication among robots
a. Lynne Parker: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~parker/Courses/CS594-spring03/Lectures/Feb11.pdf
b. Parker & Zhang: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zhang/papers/IROS06Parker.pdf
c. Explore further by following bibliographies and/or forward references
8. Intelligent medical robotics
a. See references in “Foraging” handout: http://faculty.kutztown.edu/rieksts/multiAccess/foraging.html
b. Robotic surgery: http://www.cts.usc.edu/roboticsurgery.html
http://www.cts.usc.edu/rsi-cardiacsurgery.html
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/511854
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070606235422.htm
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/centers/merit/pubs.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/jhu-rgr112806.php
c. Robotically controlled radiation treatment:
http://www.cyber-knife.net/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/2007-Muacevic-TCRT-CKForLungOneFraction.pdf
9. Assistive robotics
a. Robotic wheelchairs: http://www.primidi.com/2004/05/27.html
http://robots.net/article/1200.html
http://www.kipr.org/papers/wheelchair94.pdf
b. Intelligent wheelchair: http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2004/nr20040520.htm
http://www.cs.uga.edu/~potter/robotics/IEAAIE05-Potter-etal-101.pdf
http://www.cs.uga.edu/~potter/robotics/SEACM2004.ppt
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/papers/wheelchair.pdf
c. Robotics attendants:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~holly/papers/baker-yanco-icorr05.pdf
d. John Spletzer: http://vader.cse.lehigh.edu/projects/atrs/
10. Human Centered Robotics
a. Essex: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/hhu/HCR-Group.html
b. Elsewhere:
http://www-clmc.usc.edu/publications/S/schaal-HFSP2007.pdf
http://ai.stanford.edu/~oli/PAPERS/isrr-01.pdf
http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/~oli/publications/src/ijrr-03.pdf
http://www.inria.fr/rocquencourt/rendez-vous/evenements/human-centered-robotics-1
http://ai.stanford.edu/groups/manips/projects/design/index.html
11. Spatial Semantic Hierarchy
a. Kuipers: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/temp/his2.pdf
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/qsim/papers/Kuipers-aij-00.pdf
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/pdfs/AnimalSpatialCognition-Schmajuk.pdf
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/taylor/
http://cvcl.mit.edu/SUNSeminar/Stankiewicz_largespace_navigation.pdf
12. Robot exploration
a. Thrun: http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/Thrun04a.pdf
http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/Simmons00a.pdf
b. Others: http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=3893 https://engineering.purdue.edu/ResearchGroups/DEAR/web/papers/icra_exploration
13. Robots & Sensor Networks
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/publications/papers/FSR05.pdf
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070212113300.htm
http://www.intel-research.net/Publications/Seattle/072320021541_75.pdf
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2705574735.html
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php/Guiding_People_and_Robots_with_Sensor_Networks
14. Biomimetic robotics
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1571305
http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/
http://aplab.bu.edu/research/biorobotics.html
http://coen.boisestate.edu/JGardner/Research/biomimetic_robotics.htm
http://biorobotics.harvard.edu/pubs/Dollar_BioRob2006.pdf
http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/biomimetics/bm-hub.htm
http://www.mouseworkscanada.com/
15. SLAM – simultaneous localization and mapping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~parr/dpslam/
http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss03/p36.pdf
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~beevek/research/slam_icra06.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biorobotics/papers/00928558.pdf
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~ychu/publications/TRobot07_pslam.pdf
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~simra/lci/fastslam/
16. Robot teams
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward/pubs/howard_tr02a.pdf
http://roboti.cs.siue.edu/projects/impromptu_teams/
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward/pubs/howard_iser02a.pdf
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/ALAR/robosoccer.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biorobotics/papers/sbp_papers/integrated1/parker_adaptive_teams.pdf
17. Robot control architectures
http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/ARC/
http://www.cs.uga.edu/~potter/robotics/bishop_julian_n_200608_ms.pdf
http://sigart.acm.org/proceedings/agents97/A104/A104.PDF
http://math.haifa.ac.il/robotics/Presentations/pdf/Ch9_Architectures.PDF
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~maja/robot-control.html
http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/car2007/papers/stinckwich.pdf
http://www.ars-journal.com/International-Journal-of-Advanced-Robotic-Systems/Volume-3/001-010.pdf
http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cpr/pres/107226_.pdf
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~christjm/csci445/Final_Report-CMorgan.pdf