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Bonasso, Pete and Thomas Dean. 1997. A Retrospective of the AAAI Robot Competitions. AI Magazine 18 (1): 11-23. "This article is the content of an invited talk given by the authors at the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96). The piece begins with a short history of the competition, then discusses the technical challenges and the political and cultural issues associated with bringing it off every year. We also cover the science and engineering involved with the robot tasks and the educational and commercial aspects of the competition. We finish with a discussion of the community formed by the organizers, participants, and the conference attendees."


Britton, Peter. 1995. Undersea Explorers. Popular Science 246 (May 1995): 39-42.

Buhmann, Joachim, et. al. 1995. The Mobile Robot Rhino. AI Magazine 16 (2): 31-38. Rhino was the University of Bonn's entry in the 1994 AAAI Robot Competition. Rhino is a mobile robot designed for indoor navigation and manipulation tasks. The general scientific goal of the rhino project is development and analysis of autonomous and complex learning systems. This article describes major components of the rhino control software, sketches the basic philosophy of the rhino architecture and discusses lessons learned at the competition.

Canny, J. F. 1988. The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Clarke, Roger. 1994. Asimov's Laws for Robotics: Implications for Information Technology. Parts 1 and 2. Computer(December 1993 (pp. 53-61), and January 1994 (pp. 57-65).

Domaine, Helen. 2005. Robotics. Lerner Publications.
This book, recommended for students in grades 4 - 6, was reviewed by:
School Library Journal (December 1, 2005)
American Library Association (September 1, 2005)

Earnest, Les. 2005. The Stanford Cart. "The Stanford Cart was born as a research platform for studying the problem of controlling a Moon rover from Earth. It then was reconfigured as a robot vehicle for research in visual navigation, then went into show business for a few years at the Computer Museum in Boston. It now resides in a home for retired robots at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California."

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Goldsmith, Mike. Record entries for science prize. By Christine McGourty. BBC News (May 10, 2004). "The Aventis Prize is worth £10,000 to the winner and guarantees a sales rush. The prize, which includes a junior category, is managed by the UK's science academy, the Royal Society. ... The shortlisted books for the 2004 Junior Prize: ... Riotous Robots, by Mike Goldsmith (Scholastic Children's Books ) - In brief: From Frankenstein to nanobots, this is a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the history and future of robots. It explains the technical detail of how robots work in an accessible way.

Grepo, Stephanie V. 1996. Robot Ant-ics. Technology Review 99: 13-14.

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Jones, Joseph, Anita Flynn, and Bruce Seiger. 1999. Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation. 2nd edition. Natick, MA: A. K. Peters.

Kanade, Takeo, Michael Reed, and Lee E. Weiss. 1994. New Technologies and Applications in Robotics. Communications of the ACM 37 (3): 58-76.

Konolige, Kurt. 1995. ERRATIC Competes with the Big Boys. AI Magazine 16 (2): 61-67. This article discusses the development of the robot ERRATIC, the second-place winner of the 1994 AAAI Robot Competition. The perceptual and control architecture is described, as well as the robot's performance during the competition.

Kortenkamp, David, R. Peter Bonasso, and Robin Murphy, editors. 1998. Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. These case studies describe robots that have "left the lab" and been tested in the field. Includes descriptions of important algorithms and pseudo-code, and covers themes of navigation, mapping, vision, and architecture.

Lederman, Susan J. and Roberta L. Klatzky. 1994. The Intelligent Hand: An Experimental Approach to Human Object Recognition and Implications for Robotics and AI. AI Magazine 15 (1): 26-38. The scientific study of biological systems offers a complementary approach to more formal analytic methods favored by roboticists.

Leroux, P. editor, 1999. Educational Robotics. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 10, 1080-1089. Proceedings of the workshop at AIED 99.

McDermott, Drew. 1992. Robot Planning. AI Magazine 13 (2): 55-79. "There are several strands of research in the field; I survey six: (1) attempts to avoid planning; (2) the design of flexible plan notations; (3) theories of time-constrained planning; (4) planning by projecting and repairing faulty plans; (5) motion planning; and (6) the learning of optimal behaviors from reinforcements."

Moran, Barbara, and Laura Van Dam. 1996. Robots on all Twos. Technology Review 99: 10-11.

Moravec, Hans. 1988. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. A lively and accessible overview of the field of robotics from the director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. The book covers historical development as well as social issues.

Murphy, Robin R. 2000. An Introduction to AI Robotics. MIT Press. "This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from classic films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and bolts of organizing intelligence in robots. "

Nadis, Steven J. 1995. Fantastic Voyage. Omni 17 (January 1995): 9.

Nadis, Steven J., and Jerry Shine. 1996. Go Team, Go. Popular Science 248 (May 1996): 40.

Normile, Dennis. 1997. RoboCup Soccer Match is a Challenge for Silicon Rookies. Science 277 (September 26, 1997): 1933.

Nourbakhsh, Illah, Bob Powers, and Stan Birchfield. 1995. DERVISH: An Office Navigating Robot. AI Magazine 16 (2): 53-60. DERVISH won the Office Delivery event of the 1994 Robot Competition and Exhibition. Although the contest required DERVISH to navigate in an artificial office environment, the goal of the contest was to push the technology of robot navigation in real office buildings with minimal domain information. DERVISH navigates reliably using retractable assumptions that simplify the planning problem.

Pomerleau, D. 1993. Neural Network Perception for Mobile Robot Guidance. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Poole, David, Alan Mackworth, and Randy Goebels. 1998. Building Situated Robots. In Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach, 443-460. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Russell, Stuart, and Peter Norvig. 2002. Robotics. In Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Second Edition).

Ryder, Graham. 1996. Humans and Robots in the Geological Exploration of Planets. Ad Astra 8 (Nov/Dec 1996): 20-1.

Spice, Byron 1997. Look, No Hands: CMU Automotive Robot is Now Able to Control a Car on the Highway. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 1997: Science & Environment, A6+.

Stone, Brad. 1997. Actually, Chess is Easy. Newsweek 129 (May 5, 1997): 53. Discusses robot competitions in the fields of navigation, aviation, and soccer.

Suplee, Curt. 1997. Robot Revolution. National Geographic 192 (July 1997): 76-95.

Thomson, Alan J. 1995. Object-Oriented Blowfly: A Study in Computational Neuroethology. AI Applications 9 (2): 15-25.

Thrun, Sebastian. 1997. To Know or Not to Know: On the Utility of Models in Mobile Robots. AI Magazine 18 (1): 47-54.

Yoshikawa, T. 1990. Foundations of Robotics: Analysis and Control. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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