Towards Pervasive Robotics MIT CSAIL（对普遍的做成机器人麻省理工学院）.pdf

Towards Pervasive Robotics Artur M. Arsenio Artificial Intelligence Lab - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 545 Technology Square, Room NE43-936, MA 02139 arsenio@ai.mit.edu Abstract Pervasive robotics will require, in a near future, small, light and cheap robots that exhibit complex behaviors. These demands led to the development of the M2-M4 Macaco project - a robotic active vi- sion head. Macaco is a portable system, capable of emulating the head of different creatures both aesthetically and functionally. It integrates mech- anisms for social interactions, autonomous naviga- Figure 1: (Left) The M4 Macaco robot, designed to resemble a tion and object analysis. dog’s head. (Right) The M4-Macaco robotic head and processing hardware assembled to a Magellan mobile platform. 1 Motivation One approach of AI is the development of robots whose em- bodiment and situatedness in the world evoke behaviors that [ ] obviate constant human supervision Brooks, 1999 . With this in mind, we developed the M2-M4 Macaco project, which is described in this paper. M2-M4 Macaco is a robotic active, modular and compact system. This creature was de- signed to fit different mobile robot platforms or act as a stand- alone system. Another design goal was the portability of both Figure 2: (Left) M2-Macaco, a biological inspired robotic head, the mechanical and electronic devices and its bra