Using educational robotics to motivate complete AI solutions

AI Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-95

  Greenwald, Lloyd ^a   Artz, Donovan ^b   Mehta, Yogi ^c,d   Shirmohammadi, Babak ^e  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Susquehanna International Group LLP   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; PARTICLE FILTERING; ROBOT-LOCALIZATION PROBLEM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFRARED DETECTORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STUDENTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33645749877     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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