robotics February 2011

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NBC/NXC Spec and F14 RPMs
by Martin Langhoff 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

[ I am not on robotics@ so not sure if this will go through ] Scratching my own itch - spec at http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/nbc/ I see jspaleta was meaning to package this. Feel free to take it for Fedora if it's any good. cheers, m -- martin(a)laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

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Final Call for Papers RoboCup 2011 Symposium
by Thomas Röfer 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

[apologies for multiple postings] ******************************************************************** Call for Papers RoboCup International Symposium 2011 Istanbul, Turkey July 5-11, 2011 http://www.robocup2011.org/ ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW The 15th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2011. The Symposium represents the core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the symposium offers a unique venue for exploring various and intimate connections of theory and practice across a wide spectrum of research fields. The experimental, interactive, and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative presents the opportunity to disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies, which are rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still growing) community. SUBMISSION We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high-quality, original research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. All researchers working in these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup teams, are urged to submit their work. Both papers describing real-world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as combinations thereof, are welcome. We also encourage the submission of high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages formatted according to the LNAI requirements and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site. All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: Feb 27, 2011 (hard deadline, midnight GMT - 10) * Notification to authors: Apr 10, 2011 * Submission of camera-ready copies: May 8, 2011 * RoboCup 2011 Symposium: July 11, 2011 SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Thomas Röfer, DFKI Bremen, Germany * Uluç Saranlı, Bilkent University, Turkey * Michael Mayer, Nat'l Chung Cheng University, Taiwan * Jesus Savage, UNAM, Mexico AREAS OF INTEREST * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile and humanoid robots - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robotic Cognition and Learning - world modeling - localization, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - reinforcement learning - complex motor skill acquisition - motion and sensor model learning * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Human-Robot Interaction - human-robot interfaces - speech synthesis and natural language generation - visualization * Education and Edutainment - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications - disaster rescue information systems - search and rescue robots - robotic surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home ********************************************************************

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Design Requests for Robotics Suite Logo/Banner
by Hedayat Vatankhah 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi, I've created two design requests for a logo and a banner for Fedora Robotics Suite. For other stuff (e.g. icons for player and stage) separate tickets should be created for each case. Also, if we want to request artwork for the spin, we can request them case by case. Either provide me with the information about each desired artwork or create the design request yourself. I don't know what else to request right now. Regards, Hedayat

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Some noise about XOs and lego WeDo
by Martin Langhoff 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

I am not in the details of this -- my understanding is that Lego has a version of the WeDo software that runs on Linux, not sure about licensing http://blog.laptop.org/2011/02/12/lego-wedo-oloc-peru/ In any case, my current push is to ensure as many classroom-level robotics kits work with a foss toolchain on Fedora, out-of-the-box :-) m -- martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

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Fwd: Re: [Design-team] Need help with artwork for Fedora Robotics Suite
by Hedayat Vatankhah 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, This is the response I received right now from the design team. I'll try to create design requests one by one and receive your feedback; and then add a new ticket for it. Regards, Hedayat -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Design-team] Need help with artwork for Fedora Robotics Suite Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:26:49 -0500 From: Emily Dirsh <emily(a)fightingcrane.com> Reply-To: emily(a)fightingcrane.com, Fedora Design Team <design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Organization: Fighting Crane Solutions To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 18:15 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > Dear design team! > I'm a member of Fedora Robotics SIG. As you might already know, we are > going to provide Fedora Robotics Suite[1] as a Fedora 15 feature. The > goal of this suite is to make Fedora a great platform for people who are > actively working in Robotics field and also a great platform for > learning robotics. We are also planning on providing a Robotics LiveDVD. This sounds like a really cool project. Yay robots! :) > As a part of this work, we need some artwork for the webpages, some > icons and at last for Anaconda (the last one is only needed for the > LiveDVD which follows). And I think you can guess how good is our team > in arts! ;) > > Because of this, we decided to contact you. It would be great if you can > help us with some needed artwork, so that we can provide a more polished > look at the end. > Our current requirements are: > > * Logo for the Robotics Suite > * Banner for Robotics Suite to be used on our webpages > * Icons for Player utilities and Stage (some robotics > applications)(They're not essential to the robotics suite effort, but > would be nice to have) > * Anaconda and some logo contents, to provide a more customized look for > the LiveDVD (again, not necessary with Robotics Suite feature effort; > but appreciated) We use a ticket tracker (https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/) to keep track of design requests. You should file a new ticket for each of the graphics projects you listed above. Provide as much detail as you can. Include things like where/when/how you plan to use the requested graphic, and if there are any limitations. This will help us get design folks assigned to your requests and keep track of progress, etc. > Any help with the above is highly appreciated. :) > > Thanks, > Hedayat > If you have any questions, just post to the list, or hop on irc on #fedora-design@freenode. Emily _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

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Meeting
by Tim Niemueller 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi all. We should meet again to discuss our progress. What about Wednesday or Friday, 17:00 UTC? Tim -- Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)

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unified robots udev and policykit rules package
by Martin Langhoff 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

At OLPC, we are looking at controlling a variety of devices: lego nxt, lego wedo, gogo boards, arduino boards, scratch boards. These normally connect via USB and are accessible via a devnode. Some of them can be controlled by more than one software package. For starters, you need a udev rule assigning the devnode to a group. In these modern desktop times, you also want a PolicyKit "ACL" rule so that the "user currently logged in at the current console" can control the robot, without further complications. So for example, the lego NXT robots can be controlled by nbc, or by nxt_python. Currently nxt_python packs a udev rule, but this is bound to complicates interaction with nbc if nbc packs the same. This could be split to a single-robot-type package with a single udev (and I hope PK) rule. However, I think the best solution is to have a "robot-control" package that creates a group ("robot-control"?) and udev and PK rules that match all the supported robot models. thoughts? m -- martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

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