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Minimalist Mobile Robotics
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Minimalist Mobile Robotics

by Jonathan H. Connell
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
7h 37m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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1.3 Design principles
11
Figure
1-4. In our
colony architecture there
are a
large number
of
independent control units which
all
operate
in
parallel.
Each
of
these agents
is
responsible
for
some small part
of the
robot's task
and
compete
to
control
the robot's actuators.
1.3 Design principles
Our approach to robot control is derived from the ethological
perspective. We visualize a whole colony of locally autonomous
agents which coordinate their actions to drive the robot. Our
agents are fairly fine-grained; there are tens of agents all
operating in parallel rather than a tightly linked set of two or
three specialized sub-programs. Graphically ...
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