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- From: harrell@timasb.enet.dec.com (Rick Harrell)
- Subject: Re: Beginners Question: Walking Robots & NNs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.153656.28420@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:37:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.042020.6232@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, andy@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Miehs) writes...
- >I've read many articles recently (in SciAm and others) about insect-like robots
- >which teach themselves how to walk, from scratch.
- >
- >The articles didn't go very far into the theory of it, but it seems, to my
- >limited knowledge, that this would be an appropriate application for a neural
- >net. I'm have recently been teaching myself about NNs and this problem
- >intrigued me such that I'd love to try it out myself.
- >
- >Does anyone know much about these 'creatures'? I am especially curious as to
- >how they know whether their actions are "successful" and even how they can
- >define what a "succefsful action" is.
- >
- >I was thinking of working on a much simpler scale - a simple robot which had
- >four independently motored wheels, whose on/off and forward/reverse motion
- >could be controlled by a computer. It's objective, would be to find some
- >transmitter, given intensity signals from four directional receivers (probably
- >microphones & ultra-sonic sound).
- >
- >Am I being hopelessly naive in believing that I could create a NN to solve
- >such a problem? If not (i hope not) what approach would you recommend?
- >
- >Malcolm Ryan (care of Andrew Miehs)
- >Email replies to andy@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
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