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Re: Positioning (sort of off-topic)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:00:53 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Ian Warfield writes:
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> Ooh ooh - idea! (Piggybacked, of course.) Somebody make an ant robot with a
> black paintbrush (1) on its back. Wherever the robot goes, it paints a line
> behind it that it can follow later. Anyone designing a control system could
> save a lot of processing time because the mapmaking would be done in realtime,
> not in RCX or computer-as-host-station memory.
My 2am-brain free-associated this with the (classic?) "Langston's Ant"
simulation. See:
http://www.go2net.com/people/shaper/java/langston/
Emergent behavior is Very Cool Indeed.
- Mike
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| (...) Ooh ooh - idea! (Piggybacked, of course.) Somebody make an ant robot with a black paintbrush (1) on its back. Wherever the robot goes, it paints a line behind it that it can follow later. Anyone designing a control system could save a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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