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Acknowledgments

This work was partially funded by NSF grants IIS-0308186, IIS-0415224, CDA 0098802, and CDA 9619805. Swarthmore College also provided support for summer students to work on the robot projects. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence provided travel funding for the teams each year of the competition, making it possible for all of us to attend.

Most importantly, these robots would never have moved without the hard work of the students.

 

  1. 1998:

    Daniel Gomez-Ibanez, Elizabeth Gordon, Brett Reese, Matt Lafary, Tim Thompson, Mike Trosen, Aron Tomson, and faculty colleague Sven Anderson.

  2. 1999:

    Nii Saka Addo, Laura Brown, Paul Dickson, Jane Ng, Seth Olshfski, Eli Silk, Jordan Wales, and faculty colleague Lisa Meeden.

  3. 2000:

    Nii Saka Addo, Paul Dickson, Nathanial Fairfield, Nik Johnson, E. Gil Jones, Suor Kim, Pukar Malla, Matthew Murphy, Eli Silk, Brandon Rutter, and faculty colleague Lisa Meeden.

  4. 2001:

    E. Gil Jones, Tom Stepleton, and Stephanie Wojtkowski.

  5. 2002:

    Julie Corder and Andrew Stout.

  6. 2003:

    Frederick Heckel and Nick Ward.

  7. 2004:

    Frederick Heckel and Nick Ward.

  8. 2005:

    Abraham Chen, Yavor Georgiev, Geoffrey Hollinger, Anthony Manfredi, Benjamin Mitchell, and Zachary Pezzementi.

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Maxwell, B.A. Building robot systems to interact with people in real environments. Auton Robot 22, 353–367 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-006-9020-9

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