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- From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
- Subject: Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.041520.7120@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:15:20 GMT
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- graesserac@memstvx1.memst.edu wrote:
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- : This would imply the robot has an internal representation of its environment
-
- and also
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- : Of course, I haven't done this, but it strikes me as similar to Rodney
- : Brook's method in a few of his subsumption architecture robots...
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- Perhaps I'm mistaken, but from what I've read of Brooks, that's exactly the
- *opposite* of what subsumption achitecture does. I thought his idea was let
- the environment tell you where you are, and don't use an internal
- representation at all. The net, as usual, will correct me if I'm wrong :-).
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- I believe one paper was titled "Planning is just a way of avoiding figuring
- out what to do next."
-
- : Mark C. Langston
- : langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (still inop)
- : graesserac@memstvx1.memst.edu (my prof's, I'm reachable via it)
- : fugue@mindvox.phantom.com (but I don't check this every day)
-
- -Shane
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