GRACE: an autonomous robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge.

From: AI Magazine | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In an attempt to solve as much of the AAAI Robot Challenge as possible, five research institutions representing academia, industry, and government integrated their research into a single robot named GRACE. This article describes this first-year effort by the GRACE team, including not only the various techniques each participant brought to GRACE but also the difficult integration effort itself.

The AAAI Robot Challenge was established four years ago as a grand challenge for mobile robots. The main objectives of the challenge are to (1) provide a task that will demonstrate a high level ...

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