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Grace Head: Greg Armstrong Contact: Reid Simmons (reids@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC Associated labs/groups: Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and Human-Robot Interaction Group For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - January 1999.

Project Description

The Grace project is a collaboration among several schools and research labs to design a robot capable of fully performing the AAAI Grand Challenge. The group includes students, faculty, and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Naval Research Laboratory, Metrica Inc., Northwestern University, and Swarthmore College. GRACE has participated in the 2002 and 2003 challenge to date.

At CMU, Grace serves as VIKIA's sucessor as a platform for the social robots project.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Greg Armstrong	Senior Research Technician, CS	roboman@andrew.cmu.edu
	Allison Bruce	PhD Student, RI	abruce@andrew.cmu.edu
	Marek Piotr Michalowski	PhD Student, RI	n/a
	Brennan Peter Sellner	PhD Student, RI	bsellner@andrew.cmu.edu
	Reid Simmons	Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS	reids@cs.cmu.edu
	Christopher Urmson	Dir of Tech for Urban Grand Challenge	curmson@ri.cmu.edu

Past Sub-projects

Amelia - An improved Xavier

Publications

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

• Socially Distributed Perception: GRACE plays Social Tag at AAAI 2005
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 22, No. 4, May, 2007, pp. 385-397. [Abstract]

• Making Friends: Building Social Robots through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  S. Sabanovic, M.P. Michalowski, and L.R. Caporael
  Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics: Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-07-07, AAAI, March, 2007, pp. 71-77. [Abstract]
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• Socially Distributed Perception
  M.P. Michalowski, C.F. DiSalvo, S. Sabanovic, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), ACM, March, 2006, pp. 349-350. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [136 KB] copyrighted

• Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat
  C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L. Hiatt, N. Melchior, M.P. Michalowski, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), AAAI, July, 2005, pp. 1726-1727.
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• Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat
  M.P. Michalowski, D. Busquets Font, C.F. DiSalvo, L. Hiatt, N. Melchior, R. Simmons, and S. Sabanovic
  AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition: Papers from the 2005 AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-05-11, AAAI, 2005, pp. 40-44. [Abstract]
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