Charles Holmes
CS 404 Project Goals:
The plan is to modify the simulation into a simulated autonomous/semi-autonomous vehicle. Said vehicle would have multiple goals in its environment that it would need to reach in a predetermined number of steps (kind of like a fuel restriction) and could be likened to an unmanned transport. It would be like a simplified version of a supply truck, or maybe some kind of automated transport that could continue with no driver. The general metric would be a mixed-initiative with some trust. Specifically, the control time for the human and robot will be taken into account as well as the giving and taking of initiative by the agents. Trust will be based on this initiative trading, i.e. if the human keeps taking control it lacks trust in the robot (same for the robot taking control from the human). Alternatively, the presence of trust would be demonstrated by the giving of control to the other party. With multiple goals and fuzzy judgement of the quality of the actions of either the robot or human, success and failure will not be clear cut but more of a measure of how much was accomplished.
CS 404 Project Progress:
10 March 2008: Website created. Simulation currently records user input.
15 March 2008: Drafted up some street environments for the robot.
17 March 2008: Changed some library stuff around and got Robosim working on Linux.
27 March 2008: Set up timers for total simulation time, user control time, and robot control time. Added start and reset buttons. Made a "GoalObject" class and a check to see if the robot has accomplished one of several goals. Changed the UI a little bit.
3:58 p.m., April 4, 2008: My robot became self-aware. No, but I did get the robot to work fully autonomously on a maze with multiple goals, some of which were outside the maze. Now I should just need to tweak a few things, tidy up the GUI a bit, and use the measurements to form a metric.
