Institut für Informatik, Universität Freiburg


Praktikum Autonome Agenten

RoboCup & RoboCup-Rescue

WS 2003/2004

AG Künstliche Intelligenz

CS-Freiburg

RoboCup Rescue

Kiro









Description

This Praktikum provides to motivated students the opportunity of applying their knowledge to the development of autonmous agents in the context of RoboCup. This may include the areas of artificial intelligence, image/sensor processing, real time systems and control engineering. For a more detailed description of RoboCup have a look at www.robocup.org.

Our current activities are the soccer playing robots (CS Freiburg), the RoboCupRescue Simulation team ResQ-Freiburg and a robot capable of playing the game of table soccer (KIRO). For a detailed description of the soccer robots have a look at www.cs-freiburg.de, for the rescue agents at www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~rescue and for the table soccer robot at www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~kiro/english/index.htm.

Students participating in this Praktikum will have to choose a project from one of the three areas. In this context, they will learn how robots percept their environment, decide which actions to execute and how to execute them reliably. They will have to give short presentations during the praktikum in order to exchange their experiences with other students in the group. Finally we expect them to hand in a short report of their project. Some of the proposed projects are listed below.

Requirements

Since all of our software is written in C/C++ or Java, programming experience is absolutely necessary. Additionally, it would be useful if students are familiar with techniques from the area of artificial intelligence, image processing or control engineering.

We are particularly interested in students that intend to continue their work within our group. They might also get the opportunity to attend to international competitions. To reach this goal, however, we expect highly motivated students.

Time and Location

Time: Once a week on Thursday from 14.00 - 18.00
Location: Building 82
Preliminary discussion: 16.10.2003 in the RoboCup room, building 82 (Mensa), entrance through the blue door

Organisation

Alexander Kleiner
Email: kleiner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: 203-8226
Fax: 203-8222


Thilo Weigel
Email: weigel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: 203-8229
Fax: 203-8222

Projects

Project1: Evidence Grids for efficient exploration and target selection
    Tobias Bräuer,
Moritz Goebelbecker
     Description

Project2: Action/Skill Prediction Module
        Mathias Luber, Christian Dornhege
      Description

Project3: Evaluation of planning algorithms in the Rescue domain
        Silvia Richter, Manuel Metzger, Mathias Bornhofen
     
Description

Project4: Acceleration sensor package
        Nicolaus Ehrenfeuchter, Vamshidhar Chillamcharla
       Description

Project5: MENSA people counter
        Okan Basegmez, Tayfun Guerel, Asif Mohammed,  Hanky Sjafrie
      
Description

Project6: Adaptive Vision
       Dapeng Zhang, Klaus Rechert
       
Description

Project7: Develop manually and learn automatically special football skills
        Benni Lempp, Thomas Keller, Tilman Schieber
       
Description 

Mini-Talks I

Date: 4.12.2003
Time: 14.00 c.t. - 17.00 (if everyone finishes on time!)
Location:   Building 82 (RoboCup room)

Block I: RoboCup Rescue

14.20 - 14.40 Project1: Evidence Grids for efficient exploration and target selection
14.40 - 15.00 Project2: Action/Skill Prediction Module
15.00 - 15.20 Project3: Evaluation of planning algorithms in the Rescue domain

Block II: Robots/Mensa

15.20 - 15.40 Project4: Acceleration sensor package
15.40 - 16.00 Project5: MENSA people counter
16:00 - 16.20 Break

Block III: Kiro

16.20 - 16.40 Project6: Adaptive Vision
16.40 - 17.00 Project7: Develop manually and learn automatically special football skills




kleiner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de, 6. October 2003