DISBOTICS present research results at GCER2011
The students from the Vienna Institute of Technology have written a research paper together with the researchers from the Vienna University of Technology and has presented the paper at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics 2011 (GCER2011) in Anaheim, California (of course in English).
Clemens and Christoph presenting the paper
The research paper “Knowledge based agent architecture for high level control of mobile robots” was the result of their year/diploma project. They have implemented a rule-based system within software-agents on the CBC Controller, which is used for all robots in the Botball initiative (www.botball.org). It showed that it is possible to use semantic technologies to do high level decisions for the control of mobile robots and is therefore a first step to reach the research aim of the DISBOTICS-project. Of course, such a systems needs lot of resources and the CBC controller will be very slow, but the next steps are to improve the overall efficiency of this system for this particular controller.
DISBOTICS compete at the Botball International Tournament
64 teams taking place in this tournament, 61 from the USA and 3 international teams. We are the first team from Austria at the global conference and there is also one team from Poland and one team from Qatar.
Game Tables at Conference
According to the speed-problems with the CBC Controller the team competes without the rule-based agent system at this tournament. All the other teams are using the C-Language and the KISS-C IDE to program their robots. According to the group´s JAVA-based solution, they´re using a JAVA-behavior-based system, based on CBCJVM and programmed on their own to control their robots with behaviours. After some problems with the different light conditions between the robotics lab in Vienna and this venue in the “seeding rounds”, we hope to compete a little bit better in the following double elimination rounds. See here some pictures of our team by calibration work during the open practice.
Antonio and Manuel at the Game Table
Clemens and Ing. Michael Martinides in front of the information wall
Manuel, Christoph and Antonio at one Game Table
Manuel and Clemens at their Table
