AAAI 2012
Robotics Exhibition
   and Workshop

Welcome to the Robotics Education track within the Robotics Exhibition and Workshop, part of AAAI 2012.

Schedule (tentative)

• Monday, July 23
      2012 AAAI robotics workshop (all day)
• Tuesday, July 24
      2012 AAAI robotics exhibition (10:30am - 4:30pm)
• Wednesday, July 25
      2012 AAAI robotics exhibition (10:30am - 4:30pm)
• Thursday, July 26
      Exhibition optional (10:30am - 4:30pm); travel day

Mission Statement

Robots - and the AI algorithms that control them - are quickly maturing as resources that help convey computer science, engineering, and many other curricula. This venue offers an accessible and flexible opportunity for undergraduate, early graduate, or pre-college student teams to design, implement, and demonstrate an autonomous robotic system. The tasks involved can span physically-embodied AI: exploration, intraction, and learning within an unknown environment. In the long run, we hope to motivate hands-on AI robotics investigation both for its own sake and in service to other academic disciplines and educational goals.

This site's URL: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/aaairoboted

Call for Participation

The Robotics Education track invites students and educators to submit robotics projects that will advance the state-of-the-art in robotics- and AI-education, particularly at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Examples include, but are not limited to

• platforms -- novel physical robots for teaching robotics or for using robots to teach AI in compelling, cost-effective, and efficient ways


• software -- new scaffolding that allows more students to engage with physical computation or that allows students to engage with more sophisticated facets of robotics and AI


• curriculum -- pedagogical materials that teach a facet of CS, AI, Robotics, or another field entirely through autonomous, physically-embodied artifacts.


• projects -- unusual, compelling student- or educator-designed projects that demonstrate new opportunities/areas for independent projects. Projects in which robots and AI are used in order to inform or investigate questions in different disciplines are as welcome as AI-specific ones.

Note that although the focus of an exhibit may be software, curricula, or crossdisciplinary student work, the AAAI exhibition is a robotics exhibition, and submissions should include physically instantiated systems -- perferably ones that allow for hands-on interaction by the conference attendees!

Contribute!

Teams and individuals interested in participating should submit a 1-2 page pdf proposal, by April 1, 2012, containing

1. the names and institution(s) of the team member(s);
2. a one-sentence summary of the exhibit;
3. a brief description of what will be shown, the results, along with the underlying motivation and context for the work.

How to submit...

EAAI - Educational Advances in AI

In 2011 a symposium highlighting Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) will run alongside AAAI for the second consecutive year. Participants in the Robotics Education track of the robot exhibition will have the opportunity to join the robotics-themed session of EAAI. By the same token, EAAI attendees will have the opportunity to take in the robotics exhibition. The EAAI call for participation is here.

Contact us

Please contact the organizer with any questons:

Zach Dodds (Harvey Mudd College) - dodds@cs.hmc.edu