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Maes’s paper proposes an algorithm for a behavior based robot to learn from positive and negative feedback on when it activates behaviors. The architecture for this is decomposed into task-achieving......
Smart’s paper proposes an idea of having the robot learn how to accomplish a task, rather than being told explicitly how to accomplish a task. This paper introduces a framework......
DeSouza’s paper surveys the last twenty years of development in the field of vision for mobile robot navigation. One of the main issues that the author mentions is that of......
Dellaert’s article proposes a real-time model based vision approach for detecting and tracking vehicles from a moving platform. This approach tries to emulate situational awareness without making an assumption about......
Saripalli’s paper discusses a technique for landing autonomous helicopters. Similar to Ettinger’s “Vision Guided Flight Stability and Control for Micro Air Vehicles”, I really like the simplicity in the approach......
Ettinger discusses how to overcome aerodynamic obstacles in relation to flying with small reconnaissance planes with a vision-guided flight stability and autonomy system. This is an interesting problem in that......
Nilsson’s paper entitled “A Mobile Automaton: An Application Of Artificial Intelligence Techniques” discusses in detail the experiments conducted on a robot. The main goal of the project was the development......
Agre compares two different methodologies to the planning component for autonomous mobile robotics in “What are plans for?”. The first methodology for creating a planning component is the “plan-as-program” view.......
In Brook’s “A Robust Layered Control System For A Mobile Robot”, he proposes an architecture that addresses the concern of the more accepted architecture at that time: SPA. Brook’s alternative......
Gat discusses an alternative to the Sense-Plan-Act (SPA) architecture that was commonly implemented within the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community in “On Three-Layer Architectures”. SPA was widely accepted within the AI......