CS 378: Building Intelligent Agents

Syllabus

• (Preliminary version)

Pointers to Useful Information

• Robotics Internet Resources Page. (U. Mass. Amherst) Many robotics pages.
• comp.robotics FAQ. Lots of valuable information about robotics.
• Robotics references
• Intelligent Agents, special issue of CACM, July 1994.

• AAAI-96 Robot Competition.
• Newton Research Labs. MIT spinoff: IC and vision.

• Microcontroller FAQ
• BASIC Stamp, Parallax, Inc.
• GPS (Global Positioning System) Overview

Electronic Parts (local)

• Altex Electronics
  10705 Metric Boulevard
  Austin, Texas 78758
  832-9131

• Tinkertronics
  1133 Airport Boulevard
  Austin, Texas 78702
  926-4420
  926-1703 (BBS line)

Lego/6.270 robots

• MIT Media Lab ftp site. Source for the Lego robotics hardware and software.
• MIT 6.270 Course Page
• How to make cables
• LEGO homepage (includes good pointers).
• rec.toys.lego newsgroup.
• rec.toys.lego FAQ

• Handy Board
• HB Expansion Board
• Handy Board supplier
• Handy Board discussion list archive

• Techno-Stuff (Austin, TX). Lego animation.

Small mobile robots

• RWI Pioneer Robot (our Tommy)
• SRI's ERRATIC robot (predecessor to the RWI Pioneer)
• Khepera robot.

Large mobile robots

• Real World Interfaces, Inc.

People and Research Groups

• Jim Firby's Robotics Group at U. Chicago
• Mike Genesereth's CS 222: Autonomous Systems, Stanford CS.
• Oxford University
• Barbara Hayes-Roth: Adaptive Intelligent Systems, Stanford KSL.
• Robotics at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
• Jean-Claude Latombe's Research Groups, Stanford CS.
• MIT AI Lab, Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project.
• Harvest Information Discovery Tools (U. Colorado).
• Internet Softbots, Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld, University of Washington.
• Mark Dalton's robot course plans
• Brian Yamauchi at Stanford