No, Robots Won't Be Taking Over the World ...Yet

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1. No, Robots Won't Be Taking Over the World ... Yet.

   Raquel Vélez @rockbot

2. Robots

3. None

4. Definitions Amount of Robot Control Amount of Human Control Autonomous

   Semi-Autonomous Remote Controlled

5. Requirements for World Domination

6. Executive Coaching (Waxing Philosophical) Who Are You? What Is Around

   You? Where Are You? Where Are You Going? How Will You Get There? What Will Get In Your Way?

7. Who (What?) Am I?

8. Anatomy of a Robot Chassis (Body) Actuators (Motors) Sensors Intelligence

   (Computers)

9. Kinematics - Spatial Understanding

10. Where Am I?

11. State - Environmental Understanding Location vector (x 1 , y

    1 , ... x n , y n ) Velocity vector (v 1 , ... v n ) Acceleration vector (a 1 , ... a n ) Angle vector ( 1 , ... n ) Angular velocity vector ( 1 , ... n ) Landmark vector (l 1 , l 2 , ... l n )

12. State Estimation and Error Correction

13. What Is Around Me?

14. Depth Perception LADAR/LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) Stereo Camera Pair

15. Object Recognition & Landmark Identification

16. Where Am I Going?

17. All In a Day's Work Map What is my environment?

    Find/Rescue Fetch! Drive Get to where you need to be Build Make the widget

18. How Will I Get There?

19. Mission Planning

20. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

21. Control Controller System Sensor Noise Disturbance + -

22. What Will Get In My Way?

23. Control Controller System Sensor Noise Disturbance + -

24. System Disturbance

25. Noise

26. Sensor Fusion Microphone CO 2 Sensor Camera Heat Sensor Accelerometer/GPS

27. The Missing Ingredient

28. Executive Coaching (Waxing Philosophical) Who Are You? What Is Around

    You? Where Are You? Where Are You Going? How Will You Get There? What Are Your Limitations?

29. Executive Coaching (Waxing Philosophical) Who Are You? What Is Around

    You? Where Are You? Where Are You Going? How Will You Get There? What Are Your Limitations? What Do You Want?

30. So: Are We Safe? Sure! For now...