| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R78909/01 |
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PPA: SodaRace: Online Olympics uniting the public and researchers in a race exploring physics, engineering and AI |
| Principal Investigator: |
McOwan, Professor PW |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
Queen Mary University of London |
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PPE PreFEC |
| Starts: |
01 April 2002 |
Ends: |
30 September 2003 |
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31,018
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Summary - Describe the proposed project in about 200 words, in plain EnglishSodaplay.com is the home of the online construction kit Sodaconstructor, a website which has achieved phenomenal success inengaging a worldwide audience in entertaining simulated engineering of ingenious perambulating constructions from a sparseframework of springs and muscles. Interest from our large user base, both lay-people and academics, has highlighted the potentialto extend Sodaplay to promulgate not only an exploration and understanding of physics and engineering but also machinelearning. SodaRace is our proposal to build a networked virtual robot Olympics in which members of the public compete withartificial intelligences to build virtual racing constructions.In SodaRace, users create virtual robots using the intuitive Sodaconstructor interface. Their creations compete against those ofothers on a dynamically modelled racetrack across a variety of terrains and obstacles. Artificial Intelligence researchers haveaccess to an application programming interface (API) designed to incorporate machine learning/optimisation algorithms to createartificially intelligent robot builders. Robots created by both human robot builders and AI robot builders race against each other inthe multi-player SodaRace, and we can observe how human creativity competes against the best of machine intelligence.
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