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In addition, there are a variety of other items which should prove
of interest to other robot designers. Among these are:
Hardware Spin-offs - A large number of sensors and other
hardware subsystems were designed and characterized.
These include several types of infrared proximity sensors,
a simple laser range finder, a low power arm with a large
workspace, a network of parallel processors, and a
compact pipe-lined vision system.
Examples for Analysis - Several large control systems
were constructed for various aspects of
the
can collection
task. These are concrete instances of distributed systems
which can serve as model ...