Description

CRIEP, or Cognitive Robotics Intelligence and Education Platform, is a robust behavior driven robotics platform for spatial learning and algorithm visualization research. CRIEP began during the summer of 2008 at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga. The project aims at producing a reliable testbed for both grid based algorithm visualization, and environment exploration and analysis.

The CRIEP project uses a small programmable robot manufactured by RidgeSoft, Inc. and utilized the IntelliBrain2 microcontroller for onboard processing. The IntelliBrain2 is a versatile mobile robotic platform that can be used for both undergraduate computer science research and education projects. Our project involves a collaboration between faculty and students from computer science and psychology. Our team created a robotic test bed that mirrors the setup used in experimental psychology research involving animals. A semi-autonomous robot can be locally or remotely instructed to navigate a two-dimensional grid. Users are able to control the robot using a web-enabled application and view its progress in real time using streaming video.

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