Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

Our task – cleaning up the playroom

We have already talked a bit about our main task for Tinman, our robot example for this book, which is to clean up the playroom in my house after my grandchildren come to visit. We need to provide a more formal definition of our problem, and then to turn that into a list of tasks for the robot to perform along with a plan of action on how we might accomplish those tasks.

Why are we doing this? Well, consider this quote:

"If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? – Me.

I guess I am going to have to attribute this quote to myself, since I can’t find any reference to someone else saying it. What I am saying is that if you don’t know where the finish line is, how do you know ...