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From: reh@next08pg2.wam.umd.edu (Richard Huddleston)
Subject: Re: MIT Insect Robots
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In article <1992Jun1.142056.3477@advtech.uswest.com>  
pakemp@lookout.uswest.com (Philip A. Kemp) writes:
> About a month or so ago, I saw a show on the Discovery Channel about MIT  
Insect
> Lab.  It showed multi-legged robots which learned how to walk.  The way  
these
> robots were put together was said to use independent processors which  
were
> losely coupled.
> 
> Does anyone have any information on what the Insect Lab is doing, and  
how
> they are doing it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil Kemp

Brooks 1991 "Intelligence without representation" AI 47 (1991) 139-159

Brooks 1986 "A robust layered control system for a mobile robot" IEEE J.  
Rob Autom 2 14-23

Brooks 1987 "A hardware retargetable distributed layered architecture for  
mobile robot control" Proc IEEE Robotics and Automation 106-110

Fundamentals in 

Minsky _Society of Mind_ (particularly Chap 10) (1986) Simon and Schuster

Happy reading.
--
Richard_Huddleston reh@next.wam.umd.edu

