1. Autonomous Multiagent Systems Instructor: Peter Stone

2. Welcome! Please follow instructions on course web page: –Send info for class account –Get on the mailing list (Even if you’re still shopping – you can’t do the assignment without a class account.)

3. Today A brief introduction to autonomous agents –Details in the readings for next week An introduction to Robocup: robot soccer world cup –Your programming assignments will be in the RoboCup simulator.

4. Words without (accepted) definitions Intelligence Agent But there are examples…. All proposed definitions include too much or leave gaps.

5. Intelligent (autonomous) Agents Autonomous robot Information gathering agent –Find me the cheapest… E-commerce agents –Decides what to buy/sell and does it Air-traffic controller Meeting scheduler Computer-game-playing agent

6. Not Intelligent Agents Thermostat Telephone Answering machine Pencil Java object

7. Agents vs. Objects Agents decide what to do Object methods are called externally Agents react flexibly to sensory inputs

8. My Requirement of Agents They must sense their environment They must decide what action to take (“think”) They must execute the action in their environment

9. For more on agents… Assignment 1 readings Written assignment (on web page) is to identify an intelligent agent not listed above and not defined in the readings Programming assignment (on web page) is to get familiar with the RoboCup simulator –No real programming this week, but there is something to turn in.

10. RoboCup The rest of today is an introduction to RoboCup –A great domain for studying agents –Basis of your programming assignments Today: video about all of RoboCup including work with real robots, diaster rescue, etc. This class: all in the RoboCup simulator