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RE: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:00:49 GMT
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Original-From:
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Vaan, Howard <HOWARD.VAAN@CSFP.nospamCO.UK>
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If they really do have such funky antennae they have to have the brain to go
with them. I thought you could accomplish insect behaviour without doing
the kind of representational mapping that your answer implies (i.e. size
inference).
I think this may be in danger of straying away from pure RCX-iness - but
biological modelling's a good way to go.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurentino Martins [SMTP:lmartins@marktest.pt]
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 1998 1:11 PM
> To: Lego-Robotics
> Subject: Re: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
>
>
> I think insects do much better than that.
> Their antennas are VERY touch-sensitive and they know which point of the
> antenna was touched.
> Better, the also move the antennas to "feel" the object and it's current
> position, size and maybe texture.
> I think we are in no position to mimic their behavior with a
> RCX/CyberMaster... but it's a great challenge anyway! :-)
>
> Laurentino Martins
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> At 12:57 04-12-1998 Friday , you wrote:
> > I've just made a simple bot with the antenna-like config in the
> > Constructopedia + implemented the simple touch>stop motor algorithm.
> >
> > One problem the robot has is with table/chair legs and the like - the bot
> > wanders straight into it and then can't escape because the antennae make • it
> > continually steer back into it.
> >
> > OK - I know plenty of ways to fix this, from a HW or SW point of view . . • .
> > that's not the question.
> >
> > How do real insects with long antenna manage this problem? Can they walk
> > backwards? I don't think so . . .
> >
> > (We don't have many large roaches here in the UK that I can observe)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Howard
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| Howard, Since you are into mimicing the behaviour of an insect in some way, and I know that you are messing around with the Smalltalk Bot-Kit, you might like to consider the following for an idea. One of the interesting things about Bot-Kit is it (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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