msail mass meeting winer 2011

Overview

What is MSAIL?

What events do we sponsor?

What projects can we participate in?

Where can I sign up?

What is Artificial Intelligence?

What is MSAIL?

A community:Connect students interested in A.I.Connect students with faculty

An opportunity:Learn about the cutting edge of A.I.Learn how to apply theory to real world

projectsHave fun!

MSAIL Speaker Events

Previous Speakers:

Professor KuipersRobot Developmental Learning

Professor LairdCognitive Science Artificial Intelligene

Professor SyedMedicine and Machine Learning

Professor EusticeAutonomous Submersibles

MSAIL Speaker Events

Possible topics this semester:

Machine Learning

Robotics

Multi-Agent Systems

Natural Language Processing

Cognitive Architecture

Starcraft Artificial Intelligence Team(SCAI)

Previous Work

Winter 2010

Competed in AIIDE Starcraft AI competition.

AI for Zealots, Dragoons, Mutalisks and Scourge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfreOt6JdJg

Previous Work

Fall 2010

Split into three teams to compete inside of SCAI.

– Zerg Team

– Protoss Team

– Terran Team

Competition at the end of the semester.

This Year?

Options:

– Continue with competitions inside of SCAI with multiple teams.

– Compete in the AIIDE 2011 Starcraft AI Competition as one team.

– Do both?

– Any suggestions? The future of SCAI will be discussed in more detail at our mini-mass meeting.

Tools

C/C++

BWAPI Starcraft Hooks

Mercurial Version Control System

Visual Studio 2008 IDE

The Robocup Team2011

Work in Computer Vision

Color interpretation

Object detection

Corner detection

Work in Computer Vision

Object detection Distance calculation Corner detection

Work in Localization and World Models

Dynamic map of the world

Query map for landmarks

Monte Carlo Localization

Work in Behavior

Model-based agentreplaced simplereflex agent

Use of decision trees

All decision-makingdone using the model

Conclusion

We want you!

We have leadership opportunities!

Build your resume!

Upcoming Meetings

Officers Meeting

Monday 24th, 7:00pm, CSE Study Rooms

SCAI Meeting

Wednesday 26th, 6:30pm, Room TBA

Robocup Meeting

Wednesday 26th, 8pm, Room TBA

What do I do now?Contact us! For more information on:

SCAI – Kevin Shih (kevjshih@umich.edu)

Robocup – Calvin McCarter (cblue@umich.edu)

Leadership – Sami Luber (saluber@umich@umich.edu)