Week 7

Week 7

Day 1

We traveled to Atlanta for the AAAI conference which was a conference about Artificial Intelligence. We would stay in Atlanta for this conference from Sunday to Thursday.

Day 2

The conference began on Monday, on this day we spent the day in workshops all day ranging from where we need to go with AI in the future, and AI in education. While the workshops were going they had many demonstrations of robotics from different universities like Univ of Penn, Virginia Tech, and Georgia Tech.

Day 3

On this day we had a demonstration to give on Pre-Op a programming program to start people out with programming robots. We had a couple of people come to see what pre-op. Also at the same time of the demonstration that had the table top chess tournament with the robots. 4 teams participated in this competition CMU, Univ of Ala, Intel, and Georgia Tech.

Day 4

On this day we had to do another demonstration and this was also the second day of the conference.

Day 5

On this day it was basically a pack up day and the last day to see anymore demonstrations you wanted to see. We left about noon back to the Univ of Ala.

Day 6

I spent this day trying out the directions from the guys at the Univ of Auckland, gave me to control the arm. Later this day I learned that this would only work for an arm connected to the pioneer robot.

Goals working on:

Interface for arm

Begin: May 30, 2010
End: July 31, 2010