RoboNewbie: A Framework for Experiments with Simulated Humanoid Robots
The RoboNewbie project is a basic framework for experimenting with simulated humanoid robots. It serves as an inspiration with introductory experiments for beginners, and it provides room for further challenging experiments. While real robots of this comp
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RoboNewbie: A Framework for Experiments with Simulated Humanoid Robots Monika Doman´ska and Hans-Dieter Burkhard
Abstract The RoboNewbie project is a basic framework for experimenting with simulated humanoid robots. It serves as an inspiration with introductory experiments for beginners, and it provides room for further challenging experiments. While real robots of this complexity need large efforts for usage and maintaining, the simulated robots run on common computers (e.g. laptops) after short time of installation. They run in the environment of SimSpark RCSS, the official RoboCup 3D simulator for simulated soccer playing robots. The soccer scenario of RoboCup and the related competitions are a well known initiative to foster Artificial Intelligence and Robotics using a popular setting. The simulated robots are models of the humanoid Robot NAO of the French Company Aldebaran. The RoboNewbie framework provides easily understandable interfaces to simulated sensors and effectors of the robot as well as simple control structures. They are illustrated by example agents which can easily be understood and modified by the users. The framework has been successfully used and tested at different courses where the participants needed only few hours to understand the usage of the framework and to develop own agents for different tasks. Keywords Robotics tutorials
E-learning Simulated robots RoboCup
1.1 Introduction People feel that robots are exciting, others think that they are scaring as in numerous science fiction stories. Are they machines or could they be individuals with own interests and emotions? Will they become competitors of mankind, can M. Doman´ska H.-D. Burkhard (&) Institute of Informatics, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.naoteamhumboldt.de
M. Ivanovic´ and L. C. Jain (eds.), E-Learning Paradigms and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence 528, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41965-2_1, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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M. Doman´ska and H.-D. Burkhard
they make humans to slaves or will they make our life easier? Will they steal our jobs or will they make us free for more human like tasks? Will cold machines substitute human care or will they assist people in managing their daily life? All these questions have to be discussed by politicians, economists, philosophers, moralists etc., but it is difficult to discuss and to solve problems which are superimposed by unscientific impressions. Thus it is important to teach people more about the techniques of robots and autonomous machines. Such techniques are already integrated in many ways into our daily life, but not as spectacular as robots would be. Of course, mastering these techniques is also an unavoidable prerequisite of economic success today and in the future. Robotics integrates many disciplines and it is interesting from many points of view. It can provide us with deeper insights not only into (artificial) intelligence, but also into many other fields like ph
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