Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA (Ken Laws) (06/20/86)
Those who responded to my query on shape may enjoy reading John Hopcroft's "The Impact of Robotics on Computer Science" in the June issue of Communications of the ACM (pp. 486-498). The article covers quadratic shape modeling and the need for topology and related mathematics in modeling and motion planning. Marc Raibert's following article on legged robots is also interesting. There is a great deal of "function" that must be derived from dynamics rather than shape. -- Ken Laws -------