Schedule spring 2001

Week 15 ( 23/5 )

Meating at 14.15:

• Reports from project groups, course literature, cleaning up of the LEGO Lab

Week 14 ( 16/5 & 18/5 )

Lecture:

• Models of communicating agents.
  Luca Cardelli, Abstractions for Mobile Computation, Microsoft Research.

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Sound Lesson 2

Week 13 ( 2/5 & 4/5 )

Lecture:

• Joost-Pieter Katoen, Concepts, Algorithms, and Tools for Model Checking.

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Sound Lesson 1

Week 12 ( 25/4 & 27/4 )

Lecture:

• Communication among agents.
• Group behaviours.
  Jakob Fredslund, Maja J Mataric, A General, Local Algorithm for Robot Formation.
  

  Videos and additional material on the formation performance are found here
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 8

Week 11 ( 18/4 & 20/4 )

Lecture:

• Motivation based action selection.
• Communication among agents.
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 7

Week 11 ( 18/4 & 20/4 )

Lecture:

• Motivation based action selection.
• Communication among agents.

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 7

Week 10 ( 4/4 & 6/4 )

Articles:

• No lecture.
• Reading material on application of agents.

  B. Rhodes, P. Maes, The Stage as a Character: Automatic Creation of Acts of God for Dramatic Effect, Working Notes of the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium on Interactive Story Systems, AAAI Press, Stanford, March 1995.

  P. Maes. Artificial Life meets Entertainment: Interacting with Lifelike Autonomous Agents. Special Issue on New Horizons of Commercial and Industrial AI, Vol. 38, No. 11, pp. 108-114, Communications of the ACM, ACM Press, November 1995.

  P. Maes, T. Darrell, B. Blumberg, and A. Pentland. The ALIVE System: Wireless, Full-Body Interaction with Autonomous Agents, to be published in a Special Issue on Multimedia and Multisensory Virtual Worlds, ACM Multimedia Systems, ACM Press, Spring 1996.

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 6

Week 9 (28/3 & 30/3)

Articles:

• Motivation based action selection.
  Krink, T. (in prep.). Motivation Networks - A Biological Model for Autonomous Agent Control. Thiemo Krink
  

Exercises

• No class this week.

Week 8 (21/3 & 23/3)

Articles:

• Simple stimuli-response agents.
  W. Grey Walter, An Imitation of Life, Scientific American, May 1950.
  W. Grey Walter, A Machine That Learns, Scientific American, August 1951.
  V. Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. MIT Press, 1984.
  
• Fixed priority based action selection.
  R.A. Brooks, A robust layered control system for a mobile robot, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-2(1):14-23, 1986. Rodney Brooks
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 5

Week 7 (14/3 & 16/3)

Articles:

• Agents and action selection in agents.
  Pattie Maes, Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents.
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 4

Week 6 (7/3 & 9/3)

Articles:

• Infrared communication among RCX controllers.
  RCX Manual,
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 3

Week 5 (28/2 & 2/3)

Articles:

• The RCX embedded into LEGO models with sensors and actuators connected to the input and output ports of the RCX.
  RCX Manual,
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 2

Week 4 (21/2 & 23/2)

Articles:

• RCX Manual,
  

Exercises

• RCX Programming, Lesson 1

Week 3 (14/2 & 16/2)

Articles:

• Ole Caprani, RCX Manual,
  

Exercises

• No class this week.

Week 2 (7/2 & 9/2)

Articles:

• Craig Reynolds, Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model,
  
• Craig Reynolds, Boids, Background and Update ,
  

Exercises

• No class this week.

Week 1 (Friday 2/2-2001)

Articles

• Mitchel Resnick, Beyond the Centralized Mindset,
  Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Laboratory.
• Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman, Exploring Emergence,
  Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Laboratory.

Exercises

• No class this week.