Quadruped Robots
The Sony Aibo robots have been a popular and very useful platform for AI research. For example, we have investigated enabling them to learn how to walk fast, to see in changing lighting conditions, to model their own movements, and to work as a team.
People
Adam Setapen Masters Alumni asetapen [at] cs utexas edu
Peter Stone Faculty pstone [at] cs utexas edu
Publications
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Learning Powerful Kicks on the Aibo ERS-7: The Quest for a Striker 2010
Matthew Hausknecht and Peter Stone, In Robocup International Symposium 2010.
MARIOnET: Motion Acquisition for Robots through Iterative Online Evaluative Training 2010
Adam Setapen, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone, In Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers Workshop (AAMAS - ALIHT), May 2010.
A Neural Network-Based Approach to Robot Motion Control 2008
Uli Grasemann, Daniel Stronger, and Peter Stone, In RoboCup-2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, Ubbo Visser and Fernando Ribeiro and Takeshi Ohashi and Frank Dellaert (Eds.), Vol. 5001, pp. 480-87, Berlin 2008. Springer Verlag.
Instance-Based Action Models for Fast Action Planning 2008
Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone, In RoboCup-2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, Ubbo Visser and Fernando Ribeiro and Takeshi Ohashi and Frank Dellaert (Eds.), Vol. 5001, pp. 1-16, Berlin 2008. Springer Verlag.
Modular Neuroevolution for Multilegged Locomotion 2008
Vinod K. Valsalam and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2008, pp. 265-272, New York, NY, USA 2008. ACM.
Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion 2007
Manish Saggar, Thomas D'Silva, Nate Kohl, and Peter Stone, In RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Gerhard Lakemeyer and Elizabeth Sklar and Domenico Sorenti and Tomoichi Takahashi (Eds.), Vol. 4434, pp. 98-109, Berlin 2007. Springer Verlag.
Detecting Motion in the Environment with a Moving Quadruped Robot 2007
Peggy Fidelman, Thayne Coffman and Risto Miikkulainen, In RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Gerhard Lakemeyer and Elizabeth Sklar and Domenico Sorenti and Tomoichi Takahashi (Eds.), pp. 219-231, Berlin 2007. Springer Verlag.
Selective Visual Attention for Object Detection on a Legged Robot 2007
Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone, In RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Gerhard Lakemeyer and Elizabeth Sklar and Domenico Sorenti and Tomoichi Takahashi (Eds.), Vol. 4434, pp. 158-170, Berlin 2007. Springer Verlag.
The Chin Pinch: A Case Study in Skill Learning on a Legged Robot 2007
Peggy Fidelman and Peter Stone, In RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Gerhard Lakemeyer and Elizabeth Sklar and Domenico Sorenti and Tomoichi Takahashi (Eds.), Vol. 4434, pp. 59-71, Berlin 2007. Springer Verlag.
The UT Austin Villa 2006 RoboCup Four-Legged Team 2006
Peter Stone, Peggy Fidelman, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Tekin Mericli, Mohan Sridharan, and Shao-en Yu, Technical Report UT-AI-TR-06-337, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory.
Practical Vision-Based Monte Carlo Localization on a Legged Robot 2005
Mohan Sridharan, Gregory Kuhlmann, and Peter Stone, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2005.
The UT Austin Villa 2005 RoboCup Four-Legged Team 2005
Peter Stone, Kurt Dresner, Peggy Fidelman, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Mohan Sridharan, and Daniel Stronger, Technical Report UT-AI-TR-05-325, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory.
Machine Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion 2004
Nate Kohl and Peter Stone, In Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 611-616, July 2004.
Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion 2004
Nate Kohl and Peter Stone, In Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2619-2624, May 2004.
The UT Austin Villa 2003 Four-Legged Team 2004
Peter Stone, Kurt Dresner, Selim T. Erdougan, Peggy Fidelman, Nicholas K. Jong, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Ellie Lin, Mohan Sridharan, Daniel Stronger, and Gurushyam Hariharan, In RoboCup-2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, Daniel Polani and Brett Browning and Andrea Bonarini and Kazuo Yoshida (Eds.), Berlin 2004. Springer Verlag.
The UT Austin Villa 2004 RoboCup Four-Legged Team: Coming of Age 2004
Peter Stone, Kurt Dresner, Peggy Fidelman, Nicholas K. Jong, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Mohan Sridharan, and Daniel Stronger, Technical Report UT-AI-TR-04-313, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory.
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