Socially Assistive Robotics For Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (SAR-ASD) Robotics for socialization of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): While robots have been used for social interaction, there is great untapped potential for their use as therapeutic social partners. This research provides a process by which a socially assistive robot can be developed and used for socialization therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Toward that end, the robot is designed so that its behavior encourages, facilitates, and trains, social behavior in children with ASD through embodied social interaction.
Activity Modeling from an Overhead Camera Activity modeling using an overhead camera: We employ an overhead camera was to enable the robot system to determine the positions of the robot, the child, and the parent in the room. This would enable the robot to move autonomously without the need of bulky and expensive on-board sensors. We use this to track the positions of the robot and human interaction partners in real time.
The Robotics Primer Workbook The Robotics Primer Workbook: a stand-alone resource as well as a companion for "The Robotics Primer" by Maja J Mataric', published by MIT Press in June 2007. This workbook is designed as a general introduction to robotic programming. The exercises make use of the iRobot Create, a low-cost programmable mobile robot platform available from iRobot. An optional addition to the Create robot is the Gumstix computer, a small self contained computer about the size of a piece of gum.
HRI bibliography HRI bibliography: An online, editable bibliography of papers from HRI (and allied fields). Visitors are welcome to peruse the database, and add to it if they wish. Adapted from the BibORB Project.
Engr 499 Lab curriculum for ENGR 499: The new Viterbi School of Engineering (VSoE) freshman all-engineering hands-on robotics course. This course was first taught in Fall 2007. It is now a regular annual fall semester course. It features a truly interdisciplinary team of top researchers from VSoE who will take turns lecturing in the course, and the opportunity to program most complex robotic systems used in any freshman course anywhere.