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- From: graesserac@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.234619.5243@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:46:19 -0600
- References: <1993Jan26.183938.5241@memstvx1.memst.edu> <1993Jan27.041520.7120@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.041520.7120@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough) writes:
- > graesserac@memstvx1.memst.edu wrote:
- >
- > : 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...
- >
- > 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 :-).
- >
- > 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
- >
- > --
- > Shane Bouslough | #include <stddisc.h>
- > shane@sbcs.sunysb.edu | "Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell
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- I think you misunderstood. I was using internal representation as a
- _CONTRAST_ to using vectors derived from sensory input to navigate,
- a 'la Brooks. I didn't realize I was being vague.
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- -mark langsotn
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