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From: st11w@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
Subject: Re: Subsumption Architectures - can I ftp?
In-Reply-To: steve@fulcrum.oz.au's message of 10 Feb 92 04:52:12 GMT
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In article <1992Feb10.045212.925@fulcrum.oz.au> steve@fulcrum.oz.au
(Steve Taylor) writes:

   Are any papers on the subsumption architectures used for walking
   "bugs" at MIT available for ftp?

			   Steve
			   steve@fulcrum.oz

I don't know if you have been lucky enough to find an answer to your
question, but you might want to grab a copy of _Minimalist Mobile
Robotics: A Colony Style Architecture for an Artificial Creature_ by
Jonathan H. Connell (ISBN 0-12-185230-X).  It is part of the
"Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence" series of Academic Press.

It is a very readable technical overview of Connell's robot Herbert.  
Herbert is a (mostly) stateless 'bot that navigates clutter office
arrangements to collect soda cans.  
 
I remember seeing Herbert on television (probably PBS) awhile back.
Does anyone have a copy of Herbert's 15 minutes of fame?  Or of any
other interesting projects?  (I will hopefully soon get a copy of
the -ahem- "Discovery Channel" coverage of the last aerial robotics
competition...and I'm buying a copy of the MIT Lego/LOGO video).  
Check your video closets!



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