GRACE and GEORGE: Autonomous Robots for the AAAI Robot Challenge

Abstract : In an attempt to solve as much of the AAAI Robot Challenge as possible, five research institutions representing academia, industry and government, integrated their research on a pair of robots named GRACE and GEORGE. This paper describes the second year effort by the GRACE team, the various techniques each participant brought to GRACE, and the integration effort itself.

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