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Jennifer Goodall, Nick Webb, Katy DeCorah http:// www.albany.edu /robotics. NCWIT Social Robotics Workshop. Team Challenge #1: What is a robot?. Form groups What does a robot mean to you? Report back to group. What is a robot?. Machine Built to do job(s ) Programmed Maybe autonomous
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Jennifer Goodall, Nick Webb, Katy DeCorah http://www.albany.edu/robotics NCWIT Social Robotics Workshop
Team Challenge #1: What is a robot? • Form groups • What does a robot mean to you? • Report back to group
What is a robot? • Machine • Built to do job(s) • Programmed • Maybe autonomous • If we want robots to do things for us, we have to program them • How do we program a robot? • What does the robot need to KNOW to do useful things?
Team Challenge #2: How do we teach a robot what to do? • Pick up the garbage and put it in the garbage can • Give instructions to robot • If it understands, it will carry out instructions • If it does not understand, it will shake its head
How do robots work? • What do they need to do to perform tasks? • Imagine picking up some trash from the floor and taking it to the nearest garbage bin • Need to get an understanding of what’s around them, like where the trash is (SENSE) • Need to work out what they are going to do, and how they are going to do it (PLAN) • Then they need to actually do it (ACT)
Acting: How do I do it? • How do we do things? • We move around • We pick things up • We drop things • Robots need to use the same • Called ACTING
Effectors (for Action) Speech Wheels Motor Gripper Display Tracks Legs Face
Team Challenge #4: Program your robot with NXT-g • Learn how to make your robot • ACT • SENSE • Write programs to make it PLAN
Tasks • Move forward 3 seconds, then backward 3 seconds • Move forward 3 seconds, and turn left or right (try to get close to a 90o turn) • Try to get robot to drive around a square • Is there a better way to do this? • Let’s create a new program
Loops • Use the loop structure to make your robot drive around in a rough square • Can you make it so that the robot drives EXACTLY once around the square, and then stops • Can you make it drive once around a square, and then rotate roughly 360 degrees on the spot?
Sensing: What’s going on? • What do we use to find out about the world around us? • Eyes • Ears • Touch • Taste • Smell • Robots need to use the same • Called SENSING
Sensors Camera Sound Infra Red Color Ultra Sonic Touch
Sensing • Create a new program (called avoidObjects): • Drive forward • IF there’s an object ‘close’ to the robot • THEN turn 90 degrees left or right (your choice) • Do this forever • Try a new program with the color sensor • Make the robot drive around • IF it detects something RED • THEN stop
What have you been doing? • You’ve been programming your robot • Giving the PLANS or INSTRUCTIONS to do tasks • Using SENSORS to help make decisions • Using EFFECTORS to carry out those plans
Planning: What should I do? • How do we decide what to do? • Make decisions of what to do… • …and when • Put things together in sequence • Make a plan (for the day, or week, or…) • Have to be able to deal with things that occur as we do our stuff • Robots need to use the same • Called PLANNING
Plan • Think of IF-THEN rules • IF <see garbage> THEN <pick-up> • IF <holding garbage> AND <at trash can> THEN <drop garbage> • IF <10PM> OR <battery low> THEN <sleep> • IFNOT <holding garbage> THEN <search room>
This combination is called… • SENSE • PLAN • ACT • It’s an old idea • It’s still around • You’ll encounter this in any robotics class you’ll ever take
Definition of a social robot • Social robots will interact with us in our world • Need to cooperate, communicate and collaborate with humans • Have to understand our goals, our actions, and our behaviors • What do robots need to achieve this? • Which of our robots is most `social’?