abbott@aero.org (Russell J. Abbott) (03/26/91)
The Discover article refers to a "subsumption" architecture in explaining how Brooks' insects work. Does anyone know what that really means--besides what is written in the article. How, for example, does the robot insect coordinate its legs in learning to walk? What communication/control paths exist? Thanks,
id8rld06@serss0.fiu.edu (Michael N Johnston) (03/26/91)
Please bear with me as this is my first post. Since the "Insect Robots" article in Discover, I have been trying to gather additional information on Brooks' subsumption architecture and have found several papers and references to this architecture. I have also been trying to find additional information on Pattie Maes' work in having the robots teach themselves to walk. On this, however, I have had no luck. I even had MIT send my a bibleo. of papers from researchers in the AI lab at MIT hoping that it would list some of Maes' work. No luck (several references for Brooks, but none for Maes). If you could refer me to some of her work, it would be most appreciated. ===================================================================== Michael Johnston email: id8rld06@serss0.fiu.edu -- *********************** It works ***********************
moskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) (03/27/91)
Maes, Pattie, and Brooks, Rodney A., "Learning to Coordinate Behaviors," Proceedings Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-90, AAAI Press/The MIT Press
iaf@ely.cl.cam.ac.uk (Innes Ferguson) (04/12/91)
>I have also been trying to find additional information on Pattie >Maes' work @article{maes90a, author = "Maes, Pattie", title = "Situated Agents Can Have Goals", journal = "Robotics and Autonomous Systems", year = 1990, volume = 6, number = "1&2", pages = "49--70"} @inproceedings{maes90b, author = "Maes, Pattie and Brooks, Rodney A.", title = "Learning to Coordinate Behaviours", booktitle = "Proceedings Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence", year = 1990, pages = "796--802"} Regards... Innes ============================================================================= Innes A. Ferguson Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Pembroke St., Cambridge CB2 3QG, England. BITNET: iaf@cl.cam.ac.uk JANET: iaf@uk.ac.cam.cl Tel.: +44 223 334421 =============================================================================