Intelligent Autonomous Robotics - A Robot Soccer Case Study by Peter Stone

By Peter Stone

Robotics know-how has lately complex to the purpose of being generally available for particularly low-cost study, in addition to for graduate, undergraduate, or even secondary and first tuition schooling. This lecture presents an instance of ways to productively use a state-of-the-art complicated robotics platform for schooling and study via delivering an in depth case examine with the Sony AIBO robotic, a vision-based legged robotic. The case research used for this lecture is the UT Austin Villa RoboCup Four-Legged staff. This lecture describes either the improvement technique and the technical info of its outcome. the most contributions of this lecture are (i) a roadmap for brand new periods and study teams drawn to clever self sustaining robotics who're ranging from scratch with a brand new robotic, and (ii) documentation of the algorithms at the back of our personal technique at the AIBOs with the target of creating them obtainable to be used on different vision-based and/or legged robotic systems.

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This mechanism takes as its inputs P, I, and D gain settings for that joint and a desired angle for it. The robot architecture can process a request for each of the joints at a rate of at most once every 8 ms. We have always requested joint values at this maximum allowed frequency. Also, the AIBO model information lists recommended settings for the P, I, and D gains for each joint. We have not thoroughly experimented with any settings aside from the recommended ones and use only the recommended ones for everything that is reported here.

We first focus on the Move i = (Pose y , Pose a , t), where Pose y ∈ {all possible poses of the walk}. Since i precedes the critical action, there may be cases in which i adds unwanted momentum to the critical action and disrupts it. If i had such cases, we found a Pose s , in which {(Pose y , Pose s , t), (Pose s , Pose a , t)} did not lend unwanted momentum to the critical action. We call this the initial action. The Pose s we used mirrored the idle position of the walk. The idle position of the walk is the Pose the robot assumes when walking with 0 velocity.

8). If we do not have any previous estimates of opponents from this or any previous frame, we accept this estimate and store it in the list of known opponent positions. If any previous estimates exist, we try to merge them with the present estimate by checking if they are close enough (based on heuristics). All merging is performed assuming Gaussian distributions. The basic idea is to consider the x and y position as independent Gaussians (with the positions as the means and the associated variances) and merge them (for more details, see [84]).

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