Beyond the World Wide Web

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Beyond the World Wide Web
We like to be part of something cool!
Willow Garages Bet Robotics
Autonomous Sailboats
Autonomous Cars
Personal Robots
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Willow Garage Personal Robots

• Around the House doing the dishes, tidying up,
  laundry, cleaning
• Aging Populations carrying heavy things,
  remembering where things are, retrieving items,
  preparing food, cleaning
• Assisting People with Disabilities
  telemanipulation, feeding, doing chores,
  monitoring health and activity
• Operations Starbucks, pick and pack, stocking
  grocery stores, tracking inventory, retrieving
  items, searchable physical file system

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Boeings Bet
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What Research Communities Will Own this Future?
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The Opportunity
Too Hard to Tele-operate ? Task Execution
Is our future Shakey?
Vecna Bear
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We Must Become Dynamic

• Continuous dynamics
• Actuation limits

• They arent so bad
• Kinda like an STN
• Just another Constraint Program
• Something John Hooker handles,
• and hes pretty relaxed.
• Can just shove off to CPLEX and thats just
  ILOG.
• .

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But We Must Relinquish Control
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The Payoff

• Quick Win Publications
• Hybrid Discrete/Continuous Dispatchable Execution
• Hybrid Blackbox
• Hybrid Monitoring Diagnosis
• Hybrid HSP
• Hybrid FF
• Hybrid CSP/LP Solvers
• Hybrid Action Learning
• Hybrid - X

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Interested? Email Williams_at_Mit.edu