BeyondLegos

Beyond Legos Log

May 28, Met at Bryn Mawr to discuss summer duties and to review how the use of Pyro worked in our spring courses at Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and UMass Lowell.

Goals for the summer:

• Overhaul current Pyro modules, break up pages into more sub-pages and move python code into separate files so that it can be syntax formatted

• Create an index into all Pyro modules

• Review all Pyro examples to ensure that they are still operational

• Add citations to related work where appropriate in Pyro modules

• Complete additional Pyro modules

• Focus on Player/Stage as the primary simulator to use in combination with Pyro

• Phase out Khepera simulator and Aria simulator from all Pyro examples

• Hold a workshop for pilot schools planning on using Pyro

• Convert Pyro wiki pages into permanent web pages

• Freeze Pyro code and modules prior to workshop

• Develop guidelines for possible trajectories through Pyro modules, for example a course could focus on learning, traditional robotics, hardware, or simulation

Pyro Modules

1. Python Introduction (needs to be written, Doug and students: completed)

2. Pyro Introduction (completed)

3. Direct Control (completed)

4. Behavior-Based (needs section on subsumption, Doug: completed)

5. Vision (needs to be updated, Holly)

6. Mapping and Localization (needs to be written, Lisa)

7. Planning (needs to be written, Lisa)

8. Learning and Adaptation (needs to be reorganized, Lisa)

• Add section about human assisted training to exercise on using neural networks to learn obstacle avoidance

• Add section on CRBP

• Add section on Qlearning

• Improve SOM documentaion

9. Multiagent (needs to be updated to handle inter agent communication, Doug: completed)

Deepak will review all modules, retrying every example, and testing that they work properly under new revisions of Pyro.

Player/Stage Wish List

• Load a world dynamically

• Khepera style robot

• Light sources available in worlds and light sensors available for robots

Summer Workshop 2003

Tentatively scheduled for three days between July 31 and August 6 at Lowell. Possible participants:

• Sven Anderson, Bard College, sanderso@bard.edu

• Valerie Barr, Hofstra University, vbarr@husun3.hofstra.edu

• Eric Chown, Bowdoin College, echown@bowdoin.edu

• Clare Congdon, Colby College, ccongdon@colby.edu

• Zach Dodds, Harvey Mudd College, dodds@cs.hmc.edu

• Lloyd Greenwald, Drexel, lgreenwald@cs.drexel.edu

• Jim Marshall, Pomona College, jbm04747@pomona.edu

• Myles McNally, Alma College, mcnally@alma.edu

• Bob Montante, Bloomsburg University, bobmon@bloomu.edu

• Steve Majercik, Bowdoin College, smajerci@bowdoin.edu

• Sheila Tejada, University of New Orleans, sheila@cs.uno.edu

• Becky Thomas, Bard College, thomas@bard.edu

• Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University, erik@bloomu.edu

Courses using Pyro

• Spring 2003, Developmental Robotics, Swarthmore College

• Spring 2003, Developmental Robotics, Bryn Mawr College

• Spring 2003, Robotics II (undergraduate), UMass Lowell

• Fall 2003, Robotics II (graduate), UMass Lowell

• Fall 2003, Cognitive Science, Bryn Mawr College

• Spring 2004, Artificial Intelligence, Swarthmore College

• Spring 2004, Robotics II (undergraduate), UMass Lowell

• Fall 2004, Artificial Intelligence, Bryn Mawr College

• Fall 2004, Robotics II (graduate), UMass Lowell

Official Web Page for the project

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