research

Research of the Robotic Life Group

For an overview of current research projects, please visit the group website.

Exhibits

Various samples of my projects are on exhibit at the following locales

MIT Museum Robots and Beyond: Exploring Artificial Intelligence at MIT
SIGGRAPH 2002, Emerging Technologies Exhibit
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 2003 National Design Triennial

Past Research

For an overview of my past research projects while at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, please visit the following sites. (Please note my name change in earlier works.)

Kismet, a sociable robot (Sc.D. thesis)

Breazeal, C. (2000), "Sociable Machines: Expressive Social Exchange Between Humans and Robots", Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. MIT.
Breazeal, C. (2002), Designing Sociable Robots, The MIT Press.
Please see my current publications page for other selected papers.
Movie: Vocal turn taking with two people (8032KB, .mov)
Movie: Vocal turn taking with one person (4348KB, .mov)
Movie: Directing attention (8152KB, .mov)
Movie: Emotive expression through face and voice (6261KB, .mov)
Movie: Responding to praising tones of voice (8032KB, .mov)
Movie: Responding to scolding tones of voice (10627KB, .mov)

Cog, an upper torso humanoid robot

Brooks, R., Breazeal, C., Marjanovic, M., Scassellati, B., and Williamson, M. (1999), "The Cog Project: Building a Humanoid Robot", in C. Nehaniv (ed.), in Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1562, New York, Springer-Verlag, 52--87. (PDF file)
Brooks, R., Breazeal(Ferrell), C., Irie, R., Kemp, C., Marjanovic, M., Scassellati, B., and Williamson, M. (1998), "Alternative Essences of Intelligence", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificia Intelligence (AAAI 98), Madison, WI. 961--967. (PDF file)
Ferrell, C. (1996), "Orientation Behavior Using Registered Topographic Maps'', in Proceedings From the 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference, Cape Cod, MA, 94--103. (PDF file)

Hannibal, a planetary micro-rover prototype (S.M. thesis)

Ferrell, C. (1995), "A Comparison of Three Insect-Inspired Locomotion Controllers", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 16:2-4, 135--159. (PDF file)
Ferrell, C. (1995), "Global Behavior via Cooperative Local Control", Automonous Robots, 2:2, 105--125. (PDF file)
Ferrell, C. (1994), "Failure Recognition and Fault Tolerance of an Autonomous Robot", Adaptive Behavior, 2:4, 375--398. (PDF file)
Ferrell, C. (1993), "Robust Agent Control of an Autonomous Robot with Many Sensors and Actuators", MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Technical Report 1443.
Movie: legged locomotion (8202KB, .mov)

Overview of my graduate work at the AI Lab