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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.

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.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Greg Armstrong - Senior Research Technician, CS <roboman@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Allison Bruce - PhD Student, RI <abruce@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Marek Piotr Michalowski - PhD Student, RI <n/a>
• [Home] Brennan Peter Sellner - PhD Student, RI <bsellner@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] 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>

• Amelia - An improved Xavier

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]
  Download: pdf [1236 KB] copyrighted

• 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.
  Download: pdf [109 KB] copyrighted

• 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]
  Download: pdf [535 KB] copyrighted