“The Centibots Project: Very Large Scale Robot Teams”

Kurt Konolige
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International

Date: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
Time: 6:30pm Refreshments; 7:00pm Meeting
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions)
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.

About the Talk:
The Centibots project at SRI International, Stanford, and University of Washington, is a framework for very large teams of robots that are able to perceive, explore, plan, and collaborate in unknown environments. The Centibots team consists of approximately 100 mobile robots. They are designed to autonomously map large unexplored indoor areas, to find objects, and to track and report on moving objects. Dr. Konolige will describe the design of the system, and how it performed on several large test sites. For more information on the Centibots, go to www.ai.sri.com/centibots.

About the Speaker:
Kurt Konolige is a Senior Computer Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and a Fellow of AAAI. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1984. His recent research has concentrated on realtime perception and navigation for mobile robots. He teaches a course in mobile robotics at Stanford University, and co-developed the Pioneer and AmigoBot robot line and the Saphira robot control architecture. Visit Kurt Konolige's web site at www.ai.sri.com/~konolige.