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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: parallelism & robotics
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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 04:37:15 GMT
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In article <mfogartyCpE75y.8E@netcom.com>,
Michael Fogarty <mfogarty@netcom.com> wrote:
>Dominik Henrich -4265 (dhenrich@ira.uka.de) wrote:
>
>: Hi,
>
>: Please, can anyone point me out references, articles, etc. about
>: parallel processing in robotics.
>
>: I will summarize the responses if appropriate.
>
>Have you looked at Brooks' (MIT) work?  His work on Ghengis and Attila
>may not be "parallelism" in the way most people use the word, but it
>certainly is...something. 
>
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>mfogarty
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Isn't that called "subsumption architecture" sort of tree-like with smaller
and smaller controllers and even just state machines or gate arrays talking
minimally to the overall processor or just to their neighbor.
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

