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- From: gat@forsight2.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
- Subject: Re: ARS MAGNA Robot Simulator now available
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:01:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.010954.9656@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- >engelson-sean@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) writes:
- >> Now Available
- >> ARS MAGNA
- >> The Abstract Robot Simulator
-
- [Much deleted]
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- > Despite being called a "robot simulator", this is a world modeller
- >without much reality. It's a 2D grid world, and it is basically
- >predicate-oriented,
-
- John Nagle's criticisms are valid. However, it should be noted that
- the fact that actions can fail, that sensing is limited, and that failures
- can occur randomly, puts this simulator head and shoulders above a great
- many simulators which are regularly promulgated in the AI literature.
- Furthermore, an accurate geometric simulation of a mobile robot in an
- unengineered environment is EXCEEDINGLY difficult to produce, especially
- if you want it to run in something approaching real time.
-
- IMHO.
-
- Erann Gat
- gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
- gat@aig.jpl.nassa.gov
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