Hi!

To attend many of your requests and to express our gratitude for your
interest in our work, we will give a live demo of the CMUnited robotic
soccer team on Wednesday, October 1st, noon-2pm.  The demo will be in
the robotic soccer laboratory, DH 2300A.

We will also have some videos setup, including ones with parts of the
games at RoboCup-97 (not a complete report, neither very well taped,
but you get a good idea).

This demo will also serve as a nice complement to the AI seminar talk
on September 30th (see announcement below).

Please mark your calendar if you are interested. 
See you there!
    The CMUnited team:
    Manuela, Peter, Kwun, and Sorin

P.S. A limited amount of pizza :) will be provided for your further
enjoyment.


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           AI seminar, 3:30-5:00pm, WeH 5409

    Towards Continuous Planning, Execution, and Learning
		in MultiAgent Systems:
	   A Team of Robotic Soccer Agents 

		    Manuela M. Veloso
		Computer Science Department 
		Carnegie Mellon University

Problem solving in complex domains necessarily involves multiple
agents, dynamic environments, and the need for learning from feedback
and previous experience. Robotic soccer is an example of such complex
tasks where agents need to collaborate in an adversarial environment
to achieve specific objectives.

In this talk, I describe the robotic agents and architecture with
which we won the small-robot competition at RoboCup-97.  The framework
consists of an overall wireless communication system of small-size
robots, an overhead vision camera for perception, and a centralized
controller with role-based algorithms as the robot minds.  We designed
and built the robots (six), devised the appropriate vision algorithm,
and developed and implemented strategic behaviors to allow for
effective individual and collaborative problem solving. 

I will present the general approach that I am pursuing, towards
continuous deliberative and reactive planning, execution, and learning
in teams of multiple robots in dynamic, real-time, and adversarial
environments.

The research and development team for our robotic team entry at
RoboCup-97 was led by me and included the graduate students Peter
Stone and Kwun Han, and the research engineer Sorin Achim.
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