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Re: Design
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:57:37 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, PeterBalch <PeterBalch@compuserve.com> wrote:
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> Most people are happy if their robot can get from A to B without getting
> stuck behind the sofa. And that includes 99% of universities. Sure, NASA
> may talk about building self-repairing robots that can diagnose their own
> faults but no-one has actually built a real robot complicated enough to
> benefit from that kind of philosophising. It's fun to speculate but it's a
> futile daydream until we've got robots that actually work.
For info on some Robots that seem to work see:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/PAPERS/Paper69Mobot.pdf
Any of the US Lugnet people (which I think is most of you?) seen any of these?
Thomas
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| (...) Bruce ------- WWW.SYSTRONIX.COM ---...--- Real embedded Java and much more +1-801-534-1017 Salt Lake City, USA (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) In three years in the CS department of the Univ of Utah, my students were able to do much more than this using Lego mechanicals and JCX prototype hardware - autonomous checker and soccer playing bots, with some pretty advanced machine vision (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) For designing robots, I just search the web to see what other people have done. As Tom Lehrer said "Plagiarise, plagiarise - but always call it Reseach". For the software for mobile robots, I don't think anything beats Rodney Brooks's (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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