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Tekkotsu Lab
Head: David S Touretzky
Contact: David S Touretzky (dst@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Location:
NSH A431
(412) 268 4277

This page last updated - January 1999.

Tekkotsu is an application development framework for robotics that supports high level robot programming, drawing inspiration from ideas in cognitive science. Our target platform is the Sony AIBO. We have also created an application development framework for the AIBO called Tekkotsu, released under the GPL.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Alexander Grubb - PhD Student, CS <agrubb1@.cmu.edu>
• Ethan Tira-Thompson - PhD Student, RI <ejt+@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] David S Touretzky - Research Professor, CS <dst@cs.cmu.edu>

• Skinnerbots - Trainable robots using operant conditioning.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Dual-coding representations for robot vision in Tekkotsu
  D.S. Touretzky, N.S. Halelamien, E. Tira-Thompson, J.J. Wales, and K. Usui
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 22, No. 4, January, 2007, pp. 425 - 435. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [588 KB] copyrighted

• A Latent Cause Model of Classical Conditioning
  A. Courville
  doctoral dissertation, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [26368 KB] copyrighted

• Tekkotsu: A framework for AIBO cognitive robotics.
  D.S. Touretzky and E. Tira-Thompson
  Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2005.

• Tekkotsu: Cognitive robotics on the Sony AIBO
  E. Tira-Thompson, N.S. Halelamien, J.J. Wales, and D.S. Touretzky
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, July, 2004, pp. 390 - 391. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [91 KB] copyrighted

• Tekkotsu: A Rapid Development Framework for Robotics
  E. Tira-Thompson
  master's thesis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4218 KB] copyrighted

• Cognitive primitives for mobile robots
  E. Tira-Thompson, N.S. Halelamien, J.J. Wales, and D.S. Touretzky
  AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium Series, "The Intersection of Cognitive Science and Robotics: From Interfaces to Intelligence" report FS-04-05, 2004, pp. 110 - 111. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [219 KB] copyrighted

• Combining configural and TD learning on a robot
  D.S. Touretzky, N. Daw, and E. Tira-Thompson
  Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Development and Learning, 2002, pp. 47 - 52. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [125 KB] copyrighted