Homework 1

Intelligent Robotics 1,ECE 478/578

Deadline, October 15

This Homework is Group ProjectWill be incorporated into your final project

1. Create Powerpoint presentation with effects, figures, pictures, videos, etcA) about Copernicus – for those in Copernicus groupB) About Frankenstein Monster and PSU – for those in Monster Group and in stage design group.C) With Quantum Debate paly – for those in Quantum Debate Play robots (Einstein, Newton, Marie Curie, Cat and

Bohr).

2. This slides can be done as in my PPT slides but must have better effects and be more theatrical. Record your voice – we need more male voices.

3. Add questions and answers in Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Indian, etc. (we have Latin and German already).

4. Use Kinect-based control of PPT slides software from my class and/or from internet.5. This presentation is some form of a State Machine. This machine can be deterministic, probabilistic

of fuzzy. Or mixed. It can have several machine communicating with one another.6. The program can be written in any language of your choice, it should use PPT, and possible VBA if it

would help.7. One way is to adapt the software to transform gestures to PPT commands.

Simplified State Machines of robot playsM1. State Machine of Copernicus

M2. State Machine of Regular Linear play

Initial slide with

questions

Slide with answer to question 1

Slide with answer to

second question

Answer to last

question

Clear button

Question button

Slide with behavior 1

Slide with behavior 2

Slide with behavior 3

Slide with last

behavior

This is model of simple question answering

This is model of simple linear play like in standard theatre and Great Quantum Debate play

Combined M1 and M2. Answer to a question is a Regular Linear play

Initial slide with questions

Slide with answer to question 1

Slide with answer to

second question

Answer to last

question

Question button

This is model of simple question answering

Slide with behavior

1

Slide with behavior

2

Slide with behavior

3

Slide with last

behavior

Other combinations are of course possible

Simplified State Machines of robot playsM1. State Machine of Copernicus

M2. State Machine of Regular Linear play

Initial slide with

questions

Slide with answer to question 1

Slide with answer to

second question

Answer to last

question

Clear button

Question button

Slide with behavior 1

Slide with behavior 2

Slide with behavior 3

Slide with last

behavior

This is model of simple question answering

This is model of simple linear play like in standard theatre and Great Quantum Debate play

Combined M1 and M2. Answer to a question is a Regular Linear play

Initial slide with questions

Slide with answer to question 1

Slide with answer to

second question

Answer to last

question

Question button

This is model of simple question answering

Slide with behavior

1

Slide with behavior

2

Slide with behavior

3

Slide with last

behavior

Other combinations are of course possible

Simplified State Machine of interactive robot playM3. State Machine with interaction (similar to one explained in class for Paradise Lost)

Decision for input variable B

Behavior $r

Slide with behavior 1

Slide with behavior 2

Slide with behavior 3

Decision Node

Question A

Behavior 1

Slide with behavior 2

Slide with behavior

3

Slide with behavior

4

Slide with last

behavior

Positive answer

Negative answer

This is equivalent to Finite State Machine or general Flowchart

Positive answer

Negative answer

The decision variables are inputs, for instance from sensors or from “pressing PPT buttons”

Software for this project

Kinect processing software (exist)

Kinect Human

gestures

Convert to PPT

instruction (exist)

Pressing PPT button

PPT

slide

effects

sounds

Fuzzy logic,Boolean Logic,

Probabilistic logicFeedback loop

Memory, fuzzy of boolean

Action of the robot (signals to motors)

Physical inputs of the robot (from sensors of human controls, or gestures from Kinect)

Part in pink is new.It can be written in any language, perhaps the easiest is to use the same language in which Kinect Processing and conversion was written (color grey)

First stage of homework

second stage of homework

Third stage of the homework

Remarks

1. There are many people working on the same part of homework (like all people from Copernicus team)

2. The homeworks for all students (Copernicus team, quantum debate teams and Monster team) in the class are quite similar.

3. Software for Kinect exists and can be also found in internet.4. Partial credit will be given for partial solutions.5. Creativity will be rewarded.6. Ask me questions if not clear.