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Minimalist mobile robotics: a colony-style architecture for an artificial creature

Published 1 July 1990
Jonathan H. Connell
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TL;DR

This paper presents a meta-modelling architecture for distributed systems that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and expensive process of manually controlling an Arm via a distributed system.

Abstract

Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 1.1 The Task 1.2 Animal Stories 1.3 Design Principles 1.4 Contributions 1.5 Roadmap 2. Architecture 2.1 What we Use 2.2 The Subsumption Architecture 2.3 The Multiprocessor Implementation 2.4 Related Architectures 3. Manipulation 3.1 Hardware 3.2 Sensors 3.3 Controlling the Hand 3.4 Controlling the Arm Locally 3.5 Controlling the Arm Globally 3.6 Controlling the Base 3.7 Experiments 4. Vision 4.1 Hardware 4.2 Image Processing 4.3 Visual Guidance 4.4 Experiments 5. Navigation 5.1 Sensors 5.2 Tactical Navigation 5.3 Strategic Navigation 5.4 Experiments 6. Discussion 6.1 Spatial Representation 6.2 Distributed Systems 6.3 Limitations 6.4 Extending Arbitration 6.5 Learning 6.6 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Keywords

Computer ScienceEngineering