Online Paper: Firby-AIMag96
Programming CHIP for the IJCAI-95 Robot Competition
R. James Firby, Peter N. Prokopowicz, Michael J. Swain,
Roger E. Kahn & David Franklin.
The University of Chicago's robot, CHIP, is part of the Animate Agent
Project, aimed at understanding the software architecture and
knowledge representations needed to build a general-purpose robotic
assistant. CHIP's strategy for the Office Cleanup event of the 1995
Robot Competition and Exhibition was to scan an entire area
systematically and, as collectible objects were identified, pick them
up and deposit them in the nearest appropriate receptacle. This
article describes CHIP and its various systems and the ways in which
these elements combined to produce an effective entry to the robot
competition.
(Appears in AI Magazine 17(1), Spring 1996, pp 71-81)