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Re: IR camera?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:39:55 GMT
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Original-From:
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Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@dvsg.sciatl.com&spamcake&>
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Mike Moran wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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