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Re: Mindstorms/reinforcement learning
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Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:31:24 GMT
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Erik-
I have just completed a RL project using legOS, and a class in the
Computer Science department here which I am TAing for is due to all submit
a set of RL projects by the end of this week. Unfortunately, I'm also
swamped with other work, so I can't post many details tonight. If you want
to mail me privately about the details of what you want to learn, or wait
a week or so, i can post many details, including the problems (which are
many.) and the joys (which are also many- I was doing a dance in the lab
last week when something worked, and there is a bot about 6 feet behind me
which is sucessfully learning to push a trailer as we speak. -Luis

P.S. I'll be posting lots of pictures, code, explanations, and maybe even
video ASAP for the group's perusal.

P.P.S. NQC is great, but you need a large matrix for RL, and for that
legOS is your only choice. Take a look at www.noga.de/legOS/ for more
info on that. Good luck...

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Erik Zempel wrote:

Hello, allow me introduce myself to the list.  My name is Erik Zempel, I'm
a Junior at the University of Michigan in the Computer Engineering
department.  Two friends and I are hoping to to get some funding for a
research project involving reinforcement learning techniques for AI
robots.  For this project, we will be using Lego Mindstorms for our
robots.  We chose Mindstorms because the were an inexpensive, quick way of
building a variety of different robots.  For the AI, we are hoping to use
not-quite-C for the RCX programming.

Currently, we are drafting our proposal.  What I want to know is if there
has been anywork done like this before, and what are the RCX unit's
capabilites?  (i.e. - would it not be a good idea to do this with an RCX)

Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Erik

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(...) My prompt and humble apologies for forgetting Forth, yet again :) That would also give you the necessary capabilities, though Ralph would have to speak to it's speed when doing (literally) tens of thousands of mathematical operations. -Luis (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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Hello, allow me introduce myself to the list. My name is Erik Zempel, I'm a Junior at the University of Michigan in the Computer Engineering department. Two friends and I are hoping to to get some funding for a research project involving (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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