According to Alan Morehead's 'Darwin and the Beagle', Darwin's post was unpaid, but not unfunded. Every scientist costs far more than her salary to employ. Darwin had a bunk and meals at the very least, paid for by the British government.
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That's because it's part of a competition that
runs at every
AAAI conference
The value of these competitions and robot demos at AAAI is somewhat controversial, as AAAI is not very keen on actually publishing papers about robots at that conference. The robots get lots of press attention, but the delegates won't hear many robot-related technical papers
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It sounds so easy, but localization in mobile robots is actually a very difficult problem. GPS is great for some applications (for example, helicopter robots but (of course) it doesn't work indoors and it doesn't work well at all in built-up areas (due to lack of line-of-sight and multipath problems - just like your cellphone).
One of the main potential military applications of robots is working in built-up areas, because these are so hazardous for soldiers. DARPA sponsors a LOT of work in this area, for example the
MARS
program.
The current most successful approaches are all broadly statistical, providing a means to "see through" the noise, drift and variations in robot sensor readings. Sebatian Thrun's group at CMU has some of the best work in this area (for an overview, see this review paper. Andrew Howard at USC has some cool movies here showing his technique based on a physical spring/damper metaphor. Great stuff.
This problem is here to stay. If you have ideas, join a grad school program and help out!
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According to Alan Morehead's 'Darwin and the Beagle', Darwin's post was unpaid, but not unfunded. Every scientist costs far more than her salary to employ. Darwin had a bunk and meals at the very least, paid for by the British government.
The value of these competitions and robot demos at AAAI is somewhat controversial, as AAAI is not very keen on actually publishing papers about robots at that conference. The robots get lots of press attention, but the delegates won't hear many robot-related technical papers
At the main international robotics conference the subject is treated a little more seriously.
One of the main potential military applications of robots is working in built-up areas, because these are so hazardous for soldiers. DARPA sponsors a LOT of work in this area, for example the MARS program.
The current most successful approaches are all broadly statistical, providing a means to "see through" the noise, drift and variations in robot sensor readings. Sebatian Thrun's group at CMU has some of the best work in this area (for an overview, see this review paper. Andrew Howard at USC has some cool movies here showing his technique based on a physical spring/damper metaphor. Great stuff.
This problem is here to stay. If you have ideas, join a grad school program and help out!