Publications and hacks

The number one goal in creating Becca is to help machines do cool stuff. This section is a listing of some of those achievements. Please help me keep this list as complete as possible. If you don’t see someone here who should be, add them or let me know. These are organized by name, with each contributor’s work in reverse chronological order, and contributors listed in reverse chronological order of their most recent citation.

For using Becca to do something cool and possibly publishing it:

SeH (2014) For porting Becca to java, and integrating it with a bunch of libraries to speed it up and visualize its operation. (2012) For driving a Critterdroid simulation in Java through a TCP/IP socket and for publishing a video of the results.

Matt Peterson (2013) For using Becca with the Robot Operating System (ROS) to run the Turtlebot simulation and the iRobot Create.

Dustin Franklin (2013) For integrating Becca 0.4.6 with ROS. Also for contributing to running the Turtlebot and the iRobot Create.

Nick Malone (2012) For integrating Becca 0.3.10 with a Barrett WAM arm, driving it to reach goal positions, and for publishing the results in papers at ICRA [N Malone, B Rohrer, L Tapia, R Lumia, and J Wood. Implementation of an embodied general reinforcement learner on a serial link manipulator] and IROS [N Malone, A Faust, B Rohrer, J Wood, and L Tapia. Efficient motion based task learning].

Aleksandra Faust (2012) For searching for a target location in a simulated world using both visual and auditory data. (2012) For contributing to a paper at IROS [N Malone, A Faust, B Rohrer, J Wood, and L Tapia. Efficient motion based task learning]. (2012) For a review of RL approaches that discusses Becca.

Matt Chapman (2012) For integrating Becca (0.3.11 under Octave, slightly modified) with a Lego NXT robot via ROS to run the 1D grid task. (2012) For presenting BECCA/ROS/Lego NXT integration work to the LA Robotics Club.