Aibo Project Description

This project consists of development of an application using Sony AIBO robots in order to get familiar with Robocup Soccer domain, to understand the basic requirements of this domain and to grasp the fundamental research issues. Our application can be described as follows: two AIBO robots pass the ball to each other and finally score a goal on a soccer field while avoiding obstacles on the playing field. A successful implementation of this project would require many components such as image processing, object recognition, sensor data observation, behavior modeling, and robot kinematics to work together successfully. Hence, in this simple application we are able to investigate many different areas of computer science (such as robotics, wireless networking, distributed systems and artificial intelligence) and see how they work together to establish a common goal. This diversity of computer science areas involved in Robocup applications and research is fascinating and not easily found in other projects or works. However, it is also the reason why it is difficult to successfully implement such applications and make them work. We believe that a research group for joining the Robocup Soccer should be pretty large, involve both faculty and students from diverse areas in computer science as well as engineering.