AAAI 2007 Robot Competition and Exhibition Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007 Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

• Jeff Forbes
• Paul Oh

All teams should watch this page for updated information about the events.

• April 13 Deadline for submission of (optional) 2-page conference abstracts to Jeff Forbes and Paul Oh (emails above). Details about the expected content and format for the conference abstract are listed below.
• April 10 Notification of acceptance/rejection
• April 24 Final camera-ready submissions due

  IMPORTANT: Full event registration must be completed with payment received by AAAI by April 24th for the abstract to be published in the proceedings. This is a hard deadline fixed by the publishing company and cannot be moved.

Deadlines for Registration

• April 13 Robot teams interested in including a two-page abstract in the AAAI-07 proceedings must register by this date.
• April 19 (and on a continuing basis) AAAI sends each registered Robot team leader information packets upon receipt and payment of registration including rules and regulations, shipping instructions, liability disclaimer form, photo/video release form, and AAAI-07 Registration Form
• April 24 AAAI-07 Proceedings camera-ready paper deadline
• May 1 Team Leaders send to AAAI:
  • robot name
  • affiliation
  • 100 word description (to be included in conference program)
  • Completed AAAI-07 Registration form
  • signed photo/video release form
  • AAAI-07 Exhibition Liability Disclaimer
• May 15 Deadline for teams to register their intent to participate on the web site.

Conference Registration Deadlines

• May 25 AAAI-07/IAAI-07 Early Registration Deadline
• June 19 Student Housing Deadline
• June 22 AAAI-07/ADI-07 Late Registration Deadline
• June 29 Hyatt Regency Vancouver Reservation Deadline

Schedule at the Conference

The AAAI-Robot listserv page to subscribe and browse the archives. You can view the currently Registered Teams.

To update your registration information, please visit: http://palantir.swarthmore.edu/aaai07/teamlogin.php Please email Jeff or Paul for a password if you don't already have one.

Registration for 2007 is closed.

Teams should submit original receipts for any expenses you are claiming to AAAI after the conference using the Robot Scholarship expense form.

Venue Information

The hotel website includes floorplans and capacity charts of the conference space.

The Robot Work Area will be available to teams beginning at 8:00am on Sunday, July 22 in Oxford which is located on the third level of the Hyatt (the same level as registration). In addition, there will be an overflow work room, Prince of Wales, just adjacent to Oxford beginning on Monday evening. The Robot Workshop will be held in Regency A, third level. The Robot Exhibition/Competition Area will be in the Balmoral room on the third level which is located off the foyer area of the hotel which is also next to Oxford and Prince of Wales.

The Mobile Robot Workshop

There will be a robotics workshop on the second day of the conference, Monday, July 23 as part of the AAAI-07 Workshop Program. Teams who receive travel support must attend and present at the workshop. All other participants are strongly encouraged to attend and present. A research paper will be required within one month after the end of the workshop, and will be published in a workshop proceedings by AAAI.

Please see the Mobile Robot Workshop page for more details.

Semantic Robot Vision Challenge

In this competition, robots are given a listing of objects that they must locate and recognize. In order to determine what these objects look like, the robots are given an opportunity to search the web for images of the objects in their list before starting their search. This competition attempts to push the state of the art of semantic image understanding by requiring that robots make use of the wealth of unstructured image data that exist on the Internet today.

We welcome a variety of teams to enter with one or more robots and/or human operators. More specific rules and guidelines will be posted shortly. We particularly encourage object recognition researchers and urban search and rescue teams to consider joining this event.

Please see the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge page for more details.

The Robot Exhibition

Chairs:
Research: Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education: Zach Dodds, Harvey Mudd College

The mission of the Robot Exhibition is twofold. First, to demonstrate state of the art research in a less structured environment than the competition events. The exhibition gives researchers an opportunity to showcase current robotics and embodied-AI research that does not fit into the competition tasks. Second, the exhibition provides a venue for faculty using robotics in education to present their approaches and experiences. We encourage participation from all areas.

All participants in the robotics events have the opportunity to have a booth on display in the robotics exhibition area during the technical sessions.

Exhibition Spotlight Schedule

Date	Time	Team	Institution
Tuesday, 7/22	10:00	The Institute for Personal Robots in Education	Microsoft Research, Georgia Tech, & Bryn Mawr College
	10:05	STAIR	Stanford University
	10:10	Keystone Mixed Reality	Autonomous Agents Lab, University of Manitoba
	10:15	RoMeLa: Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory	Virginia Tech
	4:00	Fishtank Assassin	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
	4:05	Robotics, Learning, and Autonomy at Brown	Brown University
	4:10	HMC	Harvey Mudd College
	4:15	Tekkotsu Cognitive Robotics	Carnegie Mellon University
Wed, 7/23	10:05	KSU Willie	Kansas State University
	10:10	OPTIMOL	UIUC-Princeton
	4:05	UBC LCI Robotics	University of British Columbia
	4:10	Sunflowers	University of Washington
	4:15	Terrapins	University of Maryland

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Sponsors

The Boeing Company

Please contact the co-chairs if you are interested in sponsoring any part of the robot program.

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