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Abstract: "'Really Useful Robots', a research project in the domain of mobile robots, investigates new ways of controlling robots in order to achieve flexibility in unforeseen situations. This report describes the underlying ideas and mechanisms of that part of this research that has...

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Main Authors: Nehmzow, Ulrich 1961- (Author), Smithers, Tim (Author), Hallam, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh 1990
Series:University <Edinburgh> / Department of Artificial Intelligence: DAI research paper 502
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Summary:Abstract: "'Really Useful Robots', a research project in the domain of mobile robots, investigates new ways of controlling robots in order to achieve flexibility in unforeseen situations. This report describes the underlying ideas and mechanisms of that part of this research that has to do with competence generation. We propose a self-organizing type of controller for a mobile robot. Rather than decompose the control task into subtasks and implement these (an analytic approach) we propose to use competence generators which generate the necessary competences, using instincts (a synthetic approach). We have built a mobile robot and equipped it with a first version of such a self-organizing controller."
Physical Description:10 S.