ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OPEN HOUSE:

a Demonstration of Student Projects

Tuesday, December 14, 1999
3:00 - 3:50 pm
Room 160 West Science

PROGRAM OF DEMOs

INTRODUCTION
State Space Search

Background
Blocks World (Marty Maser)
Eight Puzzle (Todd Marshall)

Digital Braitenberg Vehicles

Background
The Simulator (Nate Lyle)
A Real Example: the carpet rover (Russ Langkawel)

Autonomous Robots

obstacle-avoidance in a hexapod walker (Calder Duncanson)
obstacle-avoidance in a wheeled robot (the carpet rover, Russ Langkawel)
wall-following for maze-solving (carpet rover, Joe Lawton & Dan Ballmer)
Contact sensors for walking (cautiously!) (Jeremiah Kelly, Gordon Glas, Marty Maser, etc.)

Other

"Fairy" (Eliza-like) (Tony Glines)