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Robot Tasks

At the highest level, we would like to build a robot that can, either under program control, or full or limited teleoperation, to act as a remote physical agent, to perform a range of tasks, including finding lab members, identifying whether equipment is busy, to check the status of the lab, to guide tours, to find things. More concretely, the robot's functions that have been completed to date include mapping, navigation, exploration, tracking, and simple manipulation. The requirements include fast vision processing, flexible controllers, high bandwidth communication, and support for high-level processes.The types of visual tasks required are as follows:



Vladimir Tucakov
Tue Oct 8 14:08:29 PDT 1996