Carlos Jaramillo's
Distributed Research Experience as Undergraduate (Summer 2009)

The Lab

These are a few shots taken at the Agents Lab of Brooklyn College.

You can find a great variaty of robots that Brooklyn College uses for academic research. Here, we see a line of Sony AIBO robot-dogs resting on their battery chargers, as well as a few iRobot Roombas on the floor.

The soccer field in the background is where the Brooklyn College RoboCup Team (formerly "AIBO League") practiced their distributed perception and cognition algorihtms applied to soccer.

The USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) arena that we assembled recently will allow us to continue researchin on SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).

A swarm of surveyor robots (SRV1 with ARM-7 processor) wander around the arena.

People

• Prof. Simon Parsons:
• Communication and coordination of intelligent systems
• Automated mechanism design
• Rational decision making within intelligent systems
• Learning and adaptation in intelligent agents
• Valerie Andrewlevich (valerie.andrewlevich AT gmail DOT com)
Bridges program coordinator; also has experience teaching Exploring Robotics and knows Player/Stage)
• John Cummins (jrpcummins AT yahoo DOT com)
grad student who is working on Mezzanine
• Jamari Robinson (jamariscott AT hotmail DOT com)
BC undergrad who is working on robotics and also participated in DREU during Summer 2008)



• Andres Concepcion (aconcep2 AT binghamton DOT edu)
A SUNY Binghamton University undergrad student who also is participating in DREU this Summer 2009)