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The document discusses the concept of intelligent environments, emphasizing how they should adapt to human needs and integrate the physical and digital worlds. It covers challenges in implementing such systems, ranging from context-awareness and personalization to security and reliability. Additionally, it explores robotics, programming paradigms, and future applications for robots in various sectors, advocating for user-friendly tools to enhance human-robot interactions.
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- 1. Presented by: Alexander Braendle My Robot Andreas Heil Making Programming simple! Date 12 Dec 2005
- 2. Intelligent Environments Intelligent Environmentsare all places where humans spend time They shall act intelligently & personalized in a natural way with the humans in them. Bringing the physical and digital world together Designed for humans! Make it simple! Make it work!
- 3. Simple!? Application Intelligent Environments Ambient Interaction Intelligence Smart Natural Easy Personal Context AbstractionAdaption Cognition Interaction Communication Ubicomp Collaboration Sensing Acting Technology
- 4. Some challenges New Requirements •Ultra Heterogeneity, Dynamic Configuration, Context-Awareness, Personalization, Extensibility, Reliability, Security, Privacy protection, Usability, Autonomy… We need software infrastructures for decreasing the complexities • How to hide the complexities under high level abstraction? • What the abstraction is appropriate ? • How the abstraction is implemented ? The human factor Ubiquitous computing environments should be deployed incrementally. • Our living space is not a demonstration room. • We like to replace existing objects to new objects when necessary. A user’s personal device is a key to access to an intelligent environment. • A personal device is a window to access various surrounding services.
- 5. What do wethink about? • Increasing the intelligence of environments • Retrieving context information • Thinking future daily objects, appliances, architecture. • Personal Devices • Robots • How to interact with Humans • Programming environments
- 6. Robots in humanenvironments Future Applications • Support & Care, Education, Entertainment Personal Robotics • Human-robotics Interaction • Mediator between digital/real world • Natural and affective interaction (speech, gestures, emotions) From nature to software models New programming paradigms • Body inspired software architecture (Pisa) • Meta-programming models (Berlin) What is needed that robots could be successfully integrated in our everyday life? What are key technical issues?
- 8. Interacting with Humans Consideringaffects and emotions as base components for designing interaction Sensing Human Social, verbal, Human The Emotive Response affective Human User Improving interaction in a Social Environment Communication novel social environment (humans + Computers + Emotional Context- Aware application on Robots) Mobile devices Recognizing humans and provide behavioural Response Pattern How could robots facilitate Interaction with the access to technology and Computers, Robots, Humans provide supportive services Computing Computing Applications Support And Knowledge Understanding and Modelling Affects in Social contexts
- 9. My Robot, makingprogramming simple! • Why robots? • Why programming them? • Why programming them easy? • Some examples > Science fiction > Industrial robots > Mars Rover > Fischertechnik > Lego > Roomba • Definition: A robot is a device, hard- or software with the capability of sensing and (re-)acting. • Let’s start building our own robot
- 10. Small, smaller, OQO •At first we need a brain for the robot • Let‘s take a PC or Laptop! > Battery powered > Great functionality > Easy programmable > A lot of interfaces and extensions • Why not a PC or Laptop? > Size? > Weight? • The solution is called OQO > Full functional laptop > Small in size > Does not weight a lot
- 11. OQO, a lookinside • Some internals > 1GHz Transmeta Crusoe > 20GB HDD > 512 MB RAM > 800x600 Display > Firewire, USB 2.0, Ethernet, Wireless, Bluetooth etc. > Microphone, Speaker, Digital Pen • Software > Windows XP Professional > IIS, Webserver > .NET Framework 2.0 > Remote Desktop Connection • Some really cool piece of hardware, we can work with! Now, we need parts…
- 12. Phidgets, having funwith electronics • Getting bored of soldering? • Phidgets, never heard of it? • Electronic parts with USB connection > Sensors + Actuators > Remind the definition! We have a robot • Still we need the brain > Remind the OQO • Let‘s try!!!
- 13. Text LCD Display+ Sensor Kit • Provide both a USB connector • LCD provides two lines for text, each with 80 letters • Sensor Kit provides 8 analog and 8 digital inputs • Demo • How difficult is it to send text to the display? > Example • Easy, isn‘t it?
- 14. Phidgets, what elseyou can build of it
- 15. Fischertechnik, constructing anotherrobot • Fischer, a German company. Arthur Fischer invented the rawlplug in 1954. • Since 1965 providing construction kits for mechanical models based on a special connection system • 16-bit interface called „ROBO Interface“
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- 17. The Fischertechnik ROBOInterface • The in- and outputs > 8 digital inputs > 2 digital and analog distance sensors > 4 analog sensors for resistance and voltage > 4 motors with 8 different speeds • The board > Serial port, COM, RS232 > USB > Infrared > R/F module available > Ethernet for the next hardware revision planned • .NET API(what‘s a API?) provided by Microsoft Research Cambridge Demo
- 18. How to control? •No we want to control the robot • Let‘s take another off the shelf product • Ordinary Joystick • Again take a available API to talk to the joystick: DirectX
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- 21. Research Commercial research vsAcademic research Mainly focused on hardware • Mechanical • Electrical • Functionality Operating systems unatended
- 22. Commercial Already many commercialrobots available • Aibo • Asimo • Hoap • fischertechnik • Lego • … How to program them? • Different tools • Different programing paradigm • Different programing languages
- 23. Robots, too? Software • MSAgent • Internet Explorer • Media Player Additional Hardware • Smartphone How to program them? • Standard tools > Visual Studio .NET • Programing paradigm > OOP > .NET • Your favorite language > C# > VB.NET > J#
- 24. Goal One language for all robots? One tool to rule them all?
- 25. Playing, Learning, Doing:Robots.FUN What might .FUN look like? We are interested in building a compelling & engaging programmable environment to play & learn for children Innovative, Very Easy, flexible programming environment for Robot control applications That is accessible to non technical market (children, nurse, elderly, machine operator) That enables a ‘path’ from very simple (beginner, child) to professional (using visual studio) Visual Robot Development Kit (VRDK) Andreas
- 26. VRDK API Structure Co n t r o l l e r (F is c h e r T e c h n ik ) Ac t u a t o r s Sen s o rs An a l o g S e n s o r D ig it a l S e n s o r (e .g . M o t o r s ) (e .g . H e a t S e n s o r ) (e .g . T o u c h Sen s o r)
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- 28. Imagine a world… where „Paper“ is able to understand, what you are doing …
- 29. "Men Are FromMars, Robots Are From Mitsubishi“ Financial Times (12/09/05) P. 9; Pincock, Stephen As Carnegie Mellon roboticist Daniel Wilson outlines in his book, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising," the field of robotics has taken off in recent years, with researchers around the world developing robotic applications to do everything from vacuuming to exploring space alongside man. Several Japanese companies are developing robots that can serve as in-home assistants, link up to the Internet to respond to questions, and serve as a kind of companion. Toyota recently released its Partner Robot with the ability to play the trumpet through lips endowed with sensitivity and fingers with human-like dexterity. The convergence of robotics and artificial intelligence has enabled researchers to develop devices such as Sony's Qrio, a small robot that knows to hold out its arms if it is falling, and can pick itself up from the ground. Embodied intelligence seeks to equip robots with such cognitive abilities, though ingraining many basic components of intelligence still eludes roboticists. Robots still cannot understand what gives an object its properties, though roboticists are working to give their creations the ability to learn by experience. The international group of researchers working together in the RobotCub project is trying to create a child-sized robot that can learn from interactions with its environment, just as people do. Many researchers feel that people's perceptions of the role of robots must change if they will ever be accepted as legitimate companions. Mitsubishi has begun taking orders for its Wakamaru robot, an in-home personal assistant that wakes you up in the morning, reports the weather and the headlines, and then greets you in the evening with any telephone messages. "We have tried to create a robot you can have a relationship with," said Mitsubishi's Ken Onishi.
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Editor's Notes
- #10 Why robots? Robots are part of our live, industrial robots, toys etc. they are already there and reearch is doing a lot to increase their appearance Why programming robots? Someone has to tell them hat to do. Some Examples: Science Fiction, everybody knows robots like I,robot or the terminator. But there are some cultutrale diferences. While robots in western world are mostly appear as dangeours machines, in eastern culture they have a soul and are firndly and help man. Some words about the definition, so we talk about the same stuff. Not only I,robot like machines are robots in our understanding. Every machine capable of sensing and acting / reacting is a robot. Following this definition let‘s build a robot.
- #11 Pur robot needs a brain. So lets take a C or a laptop. They are battery powered, so suiatable for autonomous usage. They offer a great functioanllity, which I can programm (most of the imes easy) and they offer a lot of extensibility. You can attach other devices etc. Sime drawbacks of PCs or Laptops: they are to big in sizez or to heavy (picture of ER1) Looking for something better: OQO, small, mobile energy saving cpu and does not weight a lot!
- #12 Lets have a look inside the OQO: Ther eare … And on the system can run a fully Windows Professional XP with all the capabilities. So it IS a really cool piece of hardware.
- #13 Ok, now we are looking for some parts for our robot. PErsonally I am getting bored of soldern. Lets take off the shelf components. Phidgets ARE THE SOLUTION: electronic parts. Sensors as well as actuators can be connected to the USB port directly. Remind the defninition. Sensonrs and actuators: we can build a robot out of this parts. Still, Phidgets are not suitable for building the brain of the robot. Ok, lets take the OQO instead. Let‘s try and connect them together.
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