AAAI 2001 Mobile Robot Contest and Exhibition
August 4-9, 2001, Seattle, Washington


Exhibition Chair: Vandi Verma

Mission

The mission of the Robot Exhibition is to demonstrate state of the art research in a less structured environment.

Details

The exhibition gives researchers an opportunity to showcase current robotics and embodied-AI research that does not fit into the competition tasks.
• Have you wanted to bring a robot to AAAI, but don't have the resources to devote to programming a contest entry?
• Does your robot hardware not fit into the competition tasks?
• Do you want to enter the contest, but would also like to demonstrate the other work that you've been doing on your robot?
• Do you just want to show off your robot?
Exhibits are scheduled throughout the conference, and in addition to live exhibits, a video proceedings is produced. The 1998 video proceedings are now available! We welcome robot demos (scheduled or continuous), robot-oriented software demos, posters with or without robots present, and videos.

In an effort to increase awareness of the field, we hope to encourage a wide variety of robots and embodied AI research. We encourage outdoor robots such as helicopters and autonomous vehicles, and all forms of indoor robots including snakes, manipulators, and bipeds. Robots that interact with crowds are also encouraged. If it proves impossible to send your actual robot, please submit a video or a poster. Feel free to send a video as well as a robot!

You are welcome to participate in the exhibition as well as the competition(s).

Registered Participants & Schedule

The list of currently registered participants is here. The schedule is here.

Registering

If think you would like to participate (even if you are not certain), please register your interest. Exhibitors who register early will be given the greatest consideration with regards to equipment and funding, but we will do our best to accomodate late submissions as well.

Please also join the mailing list aaai-robots@gmu.edu.

Checklist:

• Have you registered your interest?
• Have you joined the mailing list?
• Have you checked about travel support? Deadline Past
• Have you picked a time-slot?

Written summaries

To ensure that the research aspects of your exhibit is clearly understood, each entrant is strongly encouraged to submit a two page abstract summarizing your approach.

You will have an opportunity to present your work at a workshop towards the end of the week, and write a longer paper by 1 September for publication in the workshop proceedings.

Facilities

Depending on the needs of exhibitors for specific demonstrations we will provide:
• two roped-in areas for indoor demonstrations.
• a park area for outdoor demonstrations.
• a surface meeting the size requirements of the RoboCup small robot league.
• a surface meeting the size requirements of the RoboCup medium robot league.
• two or more machines with network connections for remote demos.
• a large-screen TV for software demonstrations.
• a large-screen TV for a video loop.
• a poster display area.
If your space requirements have not been listed, feel free to contact us; we will try to accomodate.

We expect to have photos of the exhibit hall available shortly.

For More Information

... please contact us at aaai-robots@gmu.edu.