http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/823 <pre>(Apologies for cross-postings) *** 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE IN 2 WEEKS *** Special Track on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION The 25th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2012) Marco Island, Florida, USA Hilton Marco Island Resport and Spa May 23-25, 2012 IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: November 21, 2011 - Acceptance notification: January 20, 2012 - Final versions due: February 20, 2012 Papers are being solicited for a special track on AI Education at the 25th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2012). The FLAIRS Special Track on AI Education is intended to provide a setting in which educators and researchers from all areas of AI can come together to share ideas and approaches for teaching AI at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are especially interested in submissions that describe innovative curricular materials, teaching methods, pedagogical experiences, or ways to promote student interest in AI and the participation of underrepresented groups. We welcome submissions on all aspects of AI pedagogy, including, but not limited to: - Model assignments, course syllabi, software, or other curricular resources - Implementation of the Computing Curricula Intelligent Systems area - AI classroom techniques or innovations for undergraduate and/or graduate instruction - Intelligent applications for instruction of AI and assessment of such applications - The use of robots or other hands-on equipment for teaching AI - Strategies for incorporating AI research into AI courses - Strategies for encouraging wider student interest and participation in AI - Descriptions or case studies of successful class projects or other pedagogical experiences SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts for double-blind review by November 21, 2011. Papers should follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring to the conference website (http://www.flairs-25.info/). Papers will be refereed and those accepted for presentation will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Questions regarding the track should be addressed to Todd Neller (http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/) or Jim Marshall (http://science.slc.edu/~jmarshall/). ONLINE RESOURCES - FLAIRS: http://www.flairs.com - FLAIRS 2012: http://www.flairs-25.info/ - AI Education Track: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/flairs12 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Todd Neller, co-chair (Gettysburg College) Jim Marshall, co-chair (Sarah Lawrence College) Bob Aiken (Temple University) Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University) Debra Burhans (Canisius College) Eric Chown (Bowdoin College) Andrea Danyluk (Williams College) Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College) Susan Fox (Macalester College) David Furcy (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh) Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece) Ellen Hildreth (Wellesley College) Frank Klassner (Villanova University) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California) Simon Levy (Washington and Lee University) Chun Wai Liew (Lafayette College) Shieu-Hong Lin (Biola University) Derek Long (University of Strathclyde, UK) R. Mark Meyer (Canisius College) Dave Mooney (Shippensburg University) Jeffrey Pfaffmann (Lafayette College) John Rager (Amherst College) Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford) Mehran Sahami (Stanford University) Rebecca Thomas (Bard College) Ellen Walker (Hiram College) Sarah Zelikovitz (College of Staten Island of CUNY) </pre> James Marshall 2011-11-07T22:54:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/822 <pre>[apologies for cross-postings] *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Special Track on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION The 25th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2012) Marco Island, Florida, USA Hilton Marco Island Resport and Spa May 23-25, 2012 IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: November 21, 2011 - Acceptance notification: January 20, 2012 - Final versions due: February 20, 2012 Papers are being solicited for a special track on AI Education at the 25th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2012). The FLAIRS Special Track on AI Education is intended to provide a setting in which educators and researchers from all areas of AI can come together to share ideas and approaches for teaching AI at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are especially interested in submissions that describe innovative curricular materials, teaching methods, pedagogical experiences, or ways to promote student interest in AI and the participation of underrepresented groups. We welcome submissions on all aspects of AI pedagogy, including, but not limited to: - Model assignments, course syllabi, software, or other curricular resources - Implementation of the Computing Curricula Intelligent Systems area - AI classroom techniques or innovations for undergraduate and/or graduate instruction - Intelligent applications for instruction of AI and assessment of such applications - The use of robots or other hands-on equipment for teaching AI - Strategies for incorporating AI research into AI courses - Strategies for encouraging wider student interest and participation in AI - Descriptions or case studies of successful class projects or other pedagogical experiences SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts for double-blind review by November 21, 2011. Papers should follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring to the conference website (http://www.flairs-25.info/). Papers will be refereed and those accepted for presentation will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Questions regarding the track should be addressed to Todd Neller (http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/) or Jim Marshall (http://science.slc.edu/~jmarshall/). ONLINE RESOURCES - FLAIRS: http://www.flairs.com - FLAIRS 2012: http://www.flairs-25.info/ - AI Education Track: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/flairs12 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Todd Neller, co-chair (Gettysburg College) Jim Marshall, co-chair (Sarah Lawrence College) Bob Aiken (Temple University) Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University) Debra Burhans (Canisius College) Eric Chown (Bowdoin College) Andrea Danyluk (Williams College) Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College) Susan Fox (Macalester College) David Furcy (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh) Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece) Ellen Hildreth (Wellesley College) Frank Klassner (Villanova University) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California) Simon Levy (Washington and Lee University) Chun Wai Liew (Lafayette College) Shieu-Hong Lin (Biola University) Derek Long (University of Strathclyde, UK) R. Mark Meyer (Canisius College) Dave Mooney (Shippensburg University) Jeffrey Pfaffmann (Lafayette College) John Rager (Amherst College) Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford) Mehran Sahami (Stanford University) Rebecca Thomas (Bard College) Ellen Walker (Hiram College) Sarah Zelikovitz (College of Staten Island of CUNY) </pre> James Marshall 2011-09-14T18:13:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/821 <pre> Christine, This looks like the same issue you reported a few months ago (right?), to which I replied: There were some corrupted images when we migrated from CVS to SVN, but those have been fixed thanks to Debbie Burhans. You can get those images from: http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/viewvc/pyrobot/trunk/images/ Click each image link, and then (download) saving (as root) into /usr/local/pyrobot/images/. -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2011-05-04T19:11:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/820 <pre>I am having some problems with images in trying to load RLWorld.py . It may be noteworthy that the image on the curriculum pages dealing with RL also does not appear on the web page. Thanks for your help on this Christine Using PYROBOT on posix with CPU 0 in '/usr/local/pyrobot'... Attempting to import 'RLWorld'... Loaded '/usr/local/pyrobot/plugins/worlds/Pyrobot/RLWorld.pyc'! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/pyrobot/plugins/simulators/PyrobotSimulator", line 83, in &lt;module&gt; gui = INIT(worldFile) File "/usr/local/pyrobot/plugins/simulators/PyrobotSimulator", line 26, in INIT retval = userspace.INIT() File "/usr/local/pyrobot/plugins/worlds/Pyrobot/RLWorld.py", line 372, in INIT return GUI(root, 240, 240) #375, 375) File "/usr/local/pyrobot/plugins/worlds/Pyrobot/RLWorld.py", line 75, in __init__ pitImage = pitImage.resize( [self.square_height-2, self.square_width-2] ) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1290, in resize self.load() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 201, in load raise IOError("image file is truncated (%d bytes not processed)" % len(b)) IOError: image file is truncated (2 bytes not processed) Christine Shannon Margaret V. Haggin Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Centre College 600 W. Walnut Danville, KY 40422 859 238 5406 </pre> Christine A. Shannon 2011-05-03T18:12:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/819 <pre>I've been working on the Vaccuum Cleaner world with the intent of implementing some of the exercises in Russell-norvig 2.8-2.13, I'm having difficulty having the program end nicely. There are commands for 'quit' and 'exit' but they don't seem to have an effect - neither closes the gui. I see the destroy(self) function in the GUI class in VacuumCleanerWorld.py but I don't know that it is called. Seems like there should be something in process() like: if self.quit ==1: self.destroy() or perhaps that variable is monitored somewhere else. Thanks for any help on this. Christine Shannon Margaret V. Haggin Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Centre College 600 W. Walnut Danville, KY 40422 859 238 5406 http://web.centre.edu/shannon/index.htm CENTRE COLLEGE Personal Education. Extraordinary Success http://www.centre.edu&lt;http://www.centre.edu/&gt; http://www.centre.edu/socialmedia _______________________________________________ Pyro-users mailing list Pyro-users&lt; at &gt;pyrorobotics.org http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/mailman/listinfo/pyro-users </pre> Christine A. Shannon 2011-02-21T14:46:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/818 <pre> There were some corrupted images when we migrated from CVS to SVN, but those have been fixed thanks to Debbie Burhans. You can get those images from: http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/viewvc/pyrobot/trunk/images/ Click each image link, and then (download) saving (as root) into /usr/local/pyrobot/images/. -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2011-04-05T15:23:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/817 <pre>I must admit that the bouncing is beautiful :-). Alas just this once I'd rather they weren't so bouncy. If I manually steer my robot using the joystick and really get that puck as far in as I can, then close the grippers and move forward, it usually bounces out of the grippers. Just tried (again manually) to just break the first bean and then grab, still no joy. </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-12-01T18:42:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/816 <pre> You know how much time that took to get the pucks to bounce? :) I though that if you approach the puck straight on, proceed slowly, and close the gripper when the first beam is broken, that you can pick them up. Is that not the case? Perhaps we can refine something in the way they interact to be more realistic and easier to manipulate? -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-12-01T18:07:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/815 <pre>Tried using the pucks, but when the robot moves they bounce out of the gripper, even if it's closed. Are there any objects in the simulated pyrobot world that the gripper can hold? Thanks, </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-12-01T15:32:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/814 <pre>Due to popular demand, I just updated Pyro a bit to work with Ubuntu 10.10. In 5 steps: 1. sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev swig 2. svn co svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/pyrobot/trunk pyrobot 3. cd pyrobot 4. make 5. bin/pyrobot Does not work with Python 3. You can find more details here: http://pyrorobotics.org/?page=PyroInstallation </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-11-18T01:41:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/813 <pre> Looking at configWin.py, I see that makes a bin\pyrobot.pyw. I guess I'd try to run that. -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-11-16T15:11:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/812 <pre> From http://pyrorobotics.org/?page=PyroInstallation I find that I need to do: svn co http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/pyrobot/trunk pyrobot cd pyrobot python configWin.py I download a subversion client for windows (after the svn client on cygwin gives me an error) I appear to make it successfully through the above three lines. Now what? Should I have a pyro executable somewhere? Thanks, </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-11-13T15:39:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/811 <pre> Hello, We don't have Pioneers, but we do have Erratics (which are in many ways similar). We have Ubuntu (10.04) installed on them along with pyro (you can use alien to make a deb from the rpm on the web) and player from the Ubuntu repositories (the package name is robot-player). (Note that alien doesn't get the dependencies so you will have to install a couple of other packages from the Ubuntu repositories: python-imaging-tk, python-numeric, and python-numpy.) The only problems are that the compiled version of player included in the repository doesn't include many of the modules (like the one for a firewire camera) and you need to make a symbolic link from player to robot-player in /usr/bin for pyro to be able to find it. Nik ____________________________________________________ Tsort's Constant: 1.67563, or precisely 1,237.98712567 times the difference between the distance to the sun and the weight of a small orange. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic" (slightly modified) </pre> Nik 2010-11-10T16:31:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/810 <pre> Hmmm... good questions. Unknown answers. It has been years since we turned ours on. However, I do know that some people recently have used their Pioneers with the latest Pyro (out of SVN; [1] to browse, [2] to download) and I believe that it worked fine. (Player has changed much over the years, but I think we have a version on the server that works with Pyro). -Doug [1] - http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/viewvc/pyrobot/trunk/ [2] - http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/pyrobot/trunk/ </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-11-09T01:16:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/809 <pre>Have pulled out my antique Pioneer and want to use Pyro with it. After some serious fussing, I've determined that sometime in the last n years the hard drive died. I've got a new hard drive, but I'm not sure what to install OS-wise. Can anyone else tell me what you've used Pyro with on a Pioneer? In particular, what version of the OS do you have installed? I'm thinking of trying Fedora, but do I need an ancient version to be compatible with Pyro? Thanks, - Jennie </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-11-06T04:31:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/808 <pre>_______________________________________________ Pyro-users mailing list Pyro-users&lt; at &gt;pyrorobotics.org http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/mailman/listinfo/pyro-users </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-10-12T03:06:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/807 <pre>_______________________________________________ Pyro-users mailing list Pyro-users&lt; at &gt;pyrorobotics.org http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/mailman/listinfo/pyro-users </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-10-12T02:22:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/806 <pre>Just for completeness: Yes. Either way, it is a serial connection. The server is for simulators, and for those robots that need to start a server (Player/Stage comes to mind). I presume that you realized that it is probably something like: /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyUSB0 -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-10-11T17:32:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/805 <pre> Three possibilities: 1) The serial port commands are being eaten. I seem to recall that we had a hard time trying to get robust serial communication with the Hemisson. 2) You are sending commands so fast that you don't actually see the robot stop. 3) You are using old code. The CD-ROM code might not be up to date. Also, computers are much faster than when we wrote that code years ago. Maybe some timing in the code is off. There are a few FIXME's in pyrobot/robot/khepera.py... perhaps you can try tweaking some values? Hope that helps, -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-10-11T17:20:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/804 <pre> Yes! :) This code may be a little odd... 10 times a second (at most) you are either moving forward, or telling it to briefly not move. I suspect that the sensor readings have enough noise that it is always moving some. That is, if you take 10 readings, chances are that at least one (per second) is going to have enough noise to make it move forward. Eventually, it may be too close to get an accurate reading. self is a brain, and there is a convenience method for move there. Compare: pyrobot/robot/__init__.py pyrobot/brain/__init__.py -Doug </pre> Douglas S. Blank 2010-10-11T17:12:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user/803 <pre>_______________________________________________ Pyro-users mailing list Pyro-users&lt; at &gt;pyrorobotics.org http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/mailman/listinfo/pyro-users </pre> Jennifer Kay 2010-10-11T15:07:18 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.robotics.pyro.user