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- From: schwarts@cps.msu.edu (Steven Eric Schwartz)
- Subject: Re: ARS MAGNA Robot Simulator now available
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.051056.13315@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
- References: <1d8v7pINNgbc@TERMINATOR.AI.CS.YALE.EDU> <1992Nov10.010954.9656@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 05:10:56 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
- >>
- >>... Lately attention has turned to planning for more realistic
- >>domains in which micro-world simplifying assumptions do not hold.
- >>simple enough to support controlled experimentation.
- >>ARS MAGNA's environment and robot models are based on
- >>current robotics research, so that the domain is reasonably realistic.
- >>At the same time, we abstracted away from many (though not all)
- >>real-world details of kinematics and motor control.
- >
- > 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,
- >not geometry-oriented. The robot is modelled as a point with "sensors",
- >"effectors", and "internal carrying capacity", in a world with "walls"
- >and "things". You code a planning program in "nisp" (a LISP dialect)
- >which does such things as calling "hand-grasp-desig", commanding a
- >designated hand to grasp an object. This succeeds or fails, depending
- >on the contents of nearby cells, and sometimes fails randomly, so the
- >planner has to be able to recover from errors. That's the lowest level
- >of detail supported. No kinematics, no dynamics, no gravity, no inertia,
- >no friction, etc.
- >
- >
- > John Nagle
-
-
- Is there a version of this code available that is non-Windowed, i.e. semi-
- portable to other systems?
-
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