Northern Bites is Bowdoin College’s robot team.
We compete in the Standard Platform League of RoboCup (formerly the Four Legged League) where teams consisting of four Aldebaran Nao robots each play on a field of 6 m x 4 m. The robots operate fully autonomously; there is no external control by humans or computers.
We are the former World Champions on the Sony Aibo platform, and in 2008 placed third on the Aibos and in the top eight in the new Nao competition.
History::
In 2005, we competed @ the US Open.
In 2006, we finished 5th @ the US Open, finished 10th at RoboCup 2006.
In 2007, we finished 3rd @ the German Open, and won RoboCup 2007.
Members::
2008
Eric Chown Faculty Advisor
Joho Strom Team Captain
George Slavov
Jeremy Fishman
Nick Dunn
Tucker Hermans
Andrew Lawrence
2007
Eric Chown Faculty Advisor
Henry Work Team Captain
Joho Strom
Jeremy Fishman
George Slavov
Mark McGranaghan
Tucker Hermans
Nick Dunn
Jesse Butterfield
2006
Eric Chown Faculty Advisor
Henry Work Team Captain
Pat Costello
Yi Zhuang
Ferd Convery
Jesse Butterfield
Matthew Murchison
Quentin Reeve
George Slavov
Tracy Mckay
Jeremy Fishman
Joho Strom
Brendan Mortimer
2005
People::
Eric Chown Faculty Advisor
Greydon Foil Team Captain
Research::
2007
2007 Application.
2006 Report.
2006
Chown, E., Foil, G., Work, H., Zhuang, Y., AiboConnect: A Simple Programming Environment for Robotics, Proceeding of the International FLAIRS Conference, AAAI Press, May 2006.
2005
Henry Work ‘06, Summer Research
Robocup is a competition between soccer-playing robotic dogs. Many people have a hard time wrapping their head around this. However, Henry assures people that these things do indeed exist and are really quite impressive.
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Yi Zhuang ‘08, Summer Research
As a computer science research intern, Yi spent the summer of 2005 at Bowdoin College working with Professor Eric Chown on studying and improving the vision system of the Aibos–robot dogs we program to play soccer games against other universities and colleges.
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Oliver Radwan ‘08, Summer Research:: Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Fellowship
Working as a Surdna Undergraduate Research Fellow, Oliver spent the summer of 2005 at Bowdoin working with Professor Stephen Majercik on autonomous, event-based state creation and event-driven learning in an artificial agent.
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2004
Greydon Foil ‘05, Honors Project
Developing an Autonomous Robot Soccer Team at an Undergraduate Institution
Robot soccer is a growing arena for the development and advancement of robotics algorithms and research. Many of the universities building robot soccer teams use large groups of graduate and undergraduate students. Bowdoin is developing a team, led by Greydon, with the goal of being competitive on an international scale despite not having any graduate students.
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