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Re: IR camera?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:39:55 GMT
Original-From: 
Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@#StopSpam#dvsg.sciatl.com>
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Mike Moran wrote:
> 
> lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Pete Hardie) writes:
> > Frex, let's say you have your factory, and each legobot carries its
> > building instructions, and each
> > is programmed to run  a maze.  You have the factory at the end, and it
> > closes its doors after
> > 10 legobots have entered.  You will get fast maze running robots from
> > this.
> 
> 
> Don't be too sure. Unless you constrain it a lot you could get one or
> two robots which travel fast enough to jam the door and the rest just meander
> on through becuase it's jammed open. This is perhaps a bit contrived but I'd
> be wary of making too specific statements of what a GA evolved system will do;
> too many people have got caught on this before. An example is one of Karl Sims
> creatures which was taking part in a GA which had maximim speed as the main
> metric: it's strategy was just to grow tall and then fall over hence achieving
> a maximum speed whilst falling over; I doubt if he would have been able to
> predict this given the seemingly reasonable constraints he placed on it.

True.  However, in your case, you'd have evolved altruism.

Still, the point was that 'purpose' is a perception overlaid on the
system
by humans.

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Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
Scientific Atlanta            |
Digital Video Services Group  |
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: IR camera?
 
(...) performs in real life. (...) the first place? (...) design and try to combine (...) this is called Genetic Algorithms). (...) Don't be too sure. Unless you constrain it a lot you could get one or two robots which travel fast enough to jam the (...) (28 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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