IofT 1910W: Fall 2006
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Reading list

We will read a variety of papers on robotics, robot pets, and interactions of people with technology. The papers will be available from the Web.

Details will be posted as we move through the semester.

Week 14: December 5
This week we will learn the basic aspects of speech recognition. Read the paper at http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch1node4.html#SECTION12 It is a bit out of date, but it should be simple to read.
Week 13: November 27
No new reading for this week.
Week 12: November 21
No new reading for this week. Remember that your paper is due November 21.
Week 11: November 14
No new reading for this week. Remember that you have to work on your paper.
Week 10: November 7
No new reading for this week. Look at what you need to write about for this week.
Week 9: October 31
This week we will learn about color images and processing. Read Section 2 from the paper Fast and inexpensive color image segmentation for interactive robots James Bruce, Tucker Balch, and Manuela Veloso. In Proceedings of IROS-2000, Japan, October 2000. To understand the material, you might find it useful to look at the lecture notes VisionI.pdf from CMU.
Week 8: October 24
This week we will learn more about Python. Read Instant Hacking. Learn how to program with Python by Magnus Lie Hetland. Additional related material (not required): read PyroModulePythonIntro. It covers a lot of python.. You can also read PyroModuleIntroduction and, if you are brave enough, PyroModuleObjectOverview there are many tutorials on Python for beginners at http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
Week 7: October 17
This week we will learn how to control the motion of the AIBO. Read Section 3.9.1.5 of Rofer, T., Laue, T., Burkhard, H.-D., Hoffmann, J., Jungel, M., Gohring, D., Duffert, U., Spranger, M., Altmeyer, B., Goetzke, V., von Stryk, O., Brunn, R., Dassler, M., Kunz, M., Risler, M., Stelzer, M., Thomsas, D., Uhrig, S., Schwiegelshohn, U., Dahm, I., Hebbel, M., Nistico, W., Schumann, C., Wachter, M. (2005). GermanTeam 2004. Technical report (299 pages) If you have trouble getting the file, you can get get just the pages you need to read here. You need to read only 4 pages. Don't get scared by the math! Additional related material (not required): for a very clear description of direct and inverse kinematics and for an overview of the math you need to use look at An Introduction to Robot Kinematics Powerpoint notes on this week's material.
Week 6: October 10
Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Hagman, J. (2003). Hardware Companions? - What Online AIBO Discussion Forums Reveal about the Human-Robotic Relationship. CHI 2003 Proceedings (pp. 273-280). Additional related material (not required): Gail F. Melson, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Alan M. Beck, Batya Friedman, Trace Roberts, and Erik Garrett, Robots as dogs?: children's interactions with the robotic dog AIBO and a live australian shepherd, CHI'05, pp 1649-1652. [this paper is in the ACM DL -- you need to access it through your U account]. Interested in other robot pets? Look at Paro, a soft and furry baby seal developed in Japan. Explore the difference between American and Japanese robots according to Timothy Hornyak, author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots" at http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/books/s_471426.html Powerpoint notes on this week's material.
Week 5: October 3
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, and Brian Scassellati, "Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool," IEEE Intelligent Systems, July/August 2000 (Vol. 15, No. 4), pp. 25-31. You can access the pdf source of the paper from your UofM account at IEEEexplore. If you have trouble accessing it, I'll email you the paper. Powerpoint notes on this week's material.
Week 4: September 26
Coradeschi, S.; Saffiotti, A.; "Symbiotic robotic systems: humans, robots, and smart environments" Intelligent Systems, IEEE, Volume 21, Issue 3, Jan-Feb 2006 pages 82-84 You can access the pdf source of the paper from your UofM account at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=1637359 Powerpoint notes on this week's material.
Week 3: September 19
Rodney Brooks, "A robust layered control system for a mobile robot," IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Mar 1986, Volume 2, Number 1, pages 14-23 You can access the pdf source of the full paper from your UofM account at ieeexplore.ieee.org This link will take you to the page of the paper. You should see on the left side of tha page a link to the pdf file. If you do not see the pdf or if you are asked to pay for the paper, it means that you did not come through the UofM. A simple way of doing this is to start the browser on a computer that is on campus. The library subscribes to the IEEE publications, so anyone connecting from campus can access them for free. Powerpoint notes on this week's material and answers to writeup questions.
Week 2: September 12
Read the first 25 pages of "Vehicles: experiments in synthetic psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg, MIT Press, 1986. Powerpoint notes on this week's material and on the first writeup.
Week 1: September 5
No reading for this week. Powerpoint notes on introduction to Robotics