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Spartacus is our robot entry in the 2005 AAAI Mobile Robot Challenge, making a robot attend the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Designing robots that are capable of interacting with humans in real-life settings can be considered the ultimate challenge when it comes to intelligent autonomous systems. One key issue is the integration of multiple modalities (e.g., mobility, physical structure, navigation, vision, audition, dialogue, reasoning). Such integration increases the diversity and also the complexity of interactions the robot can generate. It also makes it difficult to monitor how such increased capabilities are used in unconstrained conditions, whether it is done while the robot is in operation of afterwards. This paper reports solutions and findings resulting from our hardware, software and decisional integration work on Spartacus. It also outlines perspectives in making intelligent and interaction capabilities evolve for autonomous robots.

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  1. http://robotics.usc.edu/∼ahoward/pmap

  2. http://www.nuance.com

  3. http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt

  4. http://marie.sourceforge.net

  5. As stated by Ronald Brachman in the 2005 AAAI Conference Presidential Address.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the Canada Research Chair (granted to F. Michaud), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, in the support of this work.

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  1. LABORIUS—Research Laboratory on Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1

    F. Michaud, C. Côté, D. Létourneau, Y. Brosseau, É. Beaudry, C. Raïevsky, A. Ponchon, P. Moisan, P. Lepage, Y. Morin, F. Gagnon, P. Giguère, M.-A. Roux, S. Caron, P. Frenette & F. Kabanza

  2. CSIRO ICT Center, Sydney, Australia

    J.-M. Valin

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Michaud, F., Côté, C., Létourneau, D. et al. Spartacus attending the 2005 AAAI conference. Auton Robot 22, 369–383 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-006-9014-7

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