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Interesting AI Demos and Projects
Interesting AI Demos and Projects
Send suggestions for additions to this list to
dyer@cs.wisc.edu
Agents
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Interactive Video Environment (MIT)
The Interactive Video Environment (IVE) is an experimental
"testbed" to explore how Computer Vision and Computer Agents
technologies can be used to solve problems of human interface and
human interaction over networks. The goal of the IVE project is to
develop smart cooperative work/play systems that function
robustly despite wide variation in network and environmental
conditions.
- Firefly Personal Music Recommendation Agent
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Internet Softbots (U. Washington)
Building autonomous agents that interact with
real-world software environments such as operating systems or databases is a
pragmatically convenient yet intellectually challenging AI problem.
We are utilizing planning and
machine-learning technology to develop an Internet softbot (software robot),
a customizable and (moderately) intelligent assistant for Internet access. The
softbot accepts goals in a high-level language, generates and executes plans
to achieve these goals, and learns from its experience.
- Letizia: A Web Browsing Agent (MIT)
- Miscellaneous Resources on Agents
Computer Vision
Expert Systems
Game Playing
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Robotics
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Dante II Walking Robot (CMU)
The CMU Field Robotics Center (FRC) developed Dante II, a tethered
walking robot, which explored the Mt. Spurr (Aleutian Range,
Alaska) volcano in July 1994. The
use of robotic explorers, such as Dante II, opens a new era in field
techniques by enabling scientists to remotely conduct research and
exploration.
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Mobile Robot Navigation using Stereo Vision (JPL)
The NASA JSC Mobile Robot Lab recently demonstrated the
integration of a stereo vision system with a mobile robot for the
purpose of following people or other robots.
During following, the stereo system is constantly feeding updated
coordinates of the agent being tracked to the mobile robot system.
The mobile robot takes these coordinates as goal positions and
attempts to attain the goal position while avoiding obstacles using
its sonar sensors.
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Tracking and Grasping Moving Objects (Columbia)
Coordination between an organism's sensing modalities
and motor control system is a hallmark of intelligent behavior,
and we are pursuing the goal of
building an integrated sensing and actuation system that
can operate in dynamic as opposed to
static environments. The system we are building is a
multi-sensor system that integrates work in
real-time vision, robotic arm control and stable
grasping of objects. Our first attempts at this have
resulted in a system that can track and stably grasp a
moving model train in real-time.
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Robot Tele-operation (USC)
The MERCURY PROJECT allows users to
tele-operate a robot arm moving over a terrain filled with buried artifacts. A CCD
camera and pneumatic nozzle mounted on the robot allow users to select
viewpoints and to direct short bursts of compressed air into the terrain. Thus
users can "excavate" regions within the sand by positioning the arm, delivering a
burst of air, and viewing the newly cleared region.
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Miscellaneous Robot Demos
Speech