Robotics Lab Research Project, Pace University
The Robotics Lab inside Pace University is being spearheaded by Dr. P. Benjamin, and thoroughly focuses on building and testing the ADAPT robot cognitive architecture, which is based on the SOAR cognitive architecture.
The Robotics Lab Research Project is also responsible for building intelligent agents, which they will use for network security and intrusion detection.
One of their robots is the Pioneer II robot, which weighs 50 to 60 pounds and comes with two motors which control each wheel. This robot has two sets of 8 sonar sensors, a pan-tilt-zoom camera and a gripper.
The lab has also done some projects in collaboration with other labs and universities. One of these is ADAPT, which is actually a Cognitive Architecture for Mobile Robots, and is based on the RS language developed by Fordham University’s Damian Lyons. Through this language, programming concurrent, distributed sensory motor schemes and high level abstractions is made possible for ADAPT.
This research project was funded by the National Science Foundation and also the Department of Energy. Professor Deryle Lonsdale of Brigham Young University was also part of the collaboration.
The Lab has also made some projects about Intelligent Agents for Network Security; an Intelligent Soar Assistant for a Virtual World and the A Soar Agent for Playing Poker, wherein Bob Follek has implemented architecture for an autonomous poker player. Follek’s SoarBot utilizes the Soar to play poker with the poker server set up by the University of Alberta Computer Poker research Group.
