Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Path: brunix!news.Brown.EDU!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU!jkr
From: jkr+@CS.CMU.EDU (Ken Rosenblatt)
Subject: Re: Self-training robotic insects, etc
Message-ID: <C2v6y6.3By.1@cs.cmu.edu>
Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System)
Nntp-Posting-Host: ius5.ius.cs.cmu.edu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
References:  <C2oBnn.6Dn@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 19:17:35 GMT
Lines: 26

In article <C2oBnn.6Dn@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, schwarz@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Adam Schwarz) writes:
 > Can anyone help in providing references regarding legged robots
 > (like mechanical insects) that optimise their motion for given legs
 > and joints-per-leg?
 > 
 > Much obliged,
 > Adam
 > (schwarz@elec.canterbury.ac.nz)

Pattie Maes has done work at MIT where a behavior-based Artificial
Insect learned to walk by correlating negative and positive feedback
with the use of each individual walking behavior. A reference is:

"Learning to Coordinate Behaviors" by Pattie Maes & Rodney A. Brooks,
which appeared in Machine Learning, pp. 796-802. (I think it was '91,
but it may have been '90.)

	Ken

__________________________________________________________________________
Julio Ken Rosenblatt				Carnegie Mellon University
jkr@cs.cmu.edu					Robotics Institute
Voice:	(412) 268-3084				5000 Forbes Avenue
Fax:	(412) 621-1970				Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

	Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
