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Robotics Index (5) - Robotelligence
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Index
|> Subsumption
|> Brooks' Flesh and Machines
|> Robotelligence
|> Navigation
|> Cooperative Robotics
|> Evolutionary Robotics
|> Emergence + Complexity

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<| Subsumption

  • Rodney Brooks: homepage - also papers, CiteSeer, living machines project
  • --- Rodney's kids: HRG, Genghis, Hannibal, Attila, BabyIT, Cog, Kismet
  • --- Rodney's other kids: Maja [thesis] [sra], Cynthia [thesis], Pattie [sra] [interview] [Edge], Anita, Colin [thesis], Ian [sra], Jonathan [kits], Una-May [living machines] [emergent design]
  • --- other projects: Leonardo, Macaco [M2], dura-forming
  • Theory: Overview, Brooks, Stanford, Alife [SAM], CSCI445, BBR, Dublin, Reactive Control, Mich, 3-Layer Arch, Rethinking Grounding
  • Systems Manifest: iRobot, Hannibal, Genghis, Itsy, Robot Design, Sojourner [1] [2] [3] [4], Mar, Gecko, Gradman, Snakes, Walker, Telecom agent, Johuco
  • Behavior control: Arkin [papers] [CiteSeer], dual-dynamics
  • "Behavior-Based Robotics": mitpress.mit.edu - book by R.C. Arkin, MIT Press pub, 1999 - also review on Amazon and Sussex
  • "Behavior Based Programming": behaviorbasedprogramming - new book by Joe Jones (2003), plus simulator - review on Amazon
  • also Joe Jones' older book "Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation" - review on Amazon
  • Situated Cognition: google search [1] [2], Menzies [nec], EPSY418, perceptual symbol systems
  • Embodiment: Ziemke [nec], Maja
  • Terwijn - detailed description of behavior-based decomposition.

    <| Review

  • Ideas abstracted from Rodney Brooks' new book Flesh and Machines.

    <| Robotelligence

  • Smartbotics: Fuzzy Logic, Neuro-Fuzzy, SRI-Fuzzy, Neural Brain, Robot Control, Fuzbol, 7 Dwarf Brains, FL-Softlab, AVR Neural Brain, vanDam, Johuco
  • Intelligent Robotics: Jeremy Wyatt, CoSy, 06-13520, Aaron Sloman
  • Learning Bots: Weng [SAIL], Single Trial
  • Autonomous Systems: J.AR, NRaD, Stockholm, Intel Auton Systems Soc, U.NM, USC, Fuzzy
  • Memory-prediction systems: Redwood, article, Newcastle [M.Young]
  • Gait Control: Iguana
  • Emotiveness: MIT [1] [2] [3] [4], article, MyRealBaby, Warm&Fuzzy, Epigenetics, Making Humanoids [1] [2], Kobayashi, CMU [1] [2] [3], Hiroshi, Emotional Intelligence [1] [2] [3], Emotion Machines [1] [2] [3], Sloman, Sourceforge, AAAI, Picard, Chernoff faces [1] [2], Salk, facial expressions [1] [2] [3]
  • Robot AI Mind: scn.org
  • Companies: Neuronics
  • Gary Drescher: citation [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] - also SAMs [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6], Garage Cinema
  • Intelligent Machines: anice.net.ar
  • Bio-Inspired Computing: resources, EPFL [1] [2], Leeds.UK, York, NASA, book [1] [2], workshop, courses [1] [2] [3] [4] [5], M.Sipper
  • See also the Smart Toys section of our Emerging Technologies page.

    <| Navigation

  • NASA - JPL: Pathfinder, Rover [1] [2], CalTech, Laubach
  • University Research: U.Texas, Homing, Motion Equations, Learning to Drive, Spatial Reasoning, Zimmer, Crisman, U.Mass, Biblio, About Search, CMU [Carmen] [Minerva] [Littlejohn], GPS, Natural Landmarks, Thrun [Rhino], Bennewitz
  • "Where Am I?": personal.engin.umich.edu - 282 page online book - Borenstein's homepage
  • Mobile Robotics Navigation: Imperial College
  • Animal navigation: Touretzky [citeseer]
  • Off-road navigation: NEC, Rosenblatt [nec], Maja, I.Davis [nec]
  • Luc Steels: homepage - AIBO navigation - also CiteSeer, Sony Paris
  • N.Cowan: homepage
  • inertial navigation: Zurich
  • MIT: Cognitive Robotics
  • Misc: Rossum [path computation], path planning, Ariel, EPFL

    <| Cooperative Robotics

  • Cooperative Robotics: U.Alberta, AuNU, Caltech, CRIP, deictic control, EPFL, Euron, IDSIA, U.Manitoba, U.Mass, U.Minn, MIT [1] [2], U.NewMexico, ORNL, Parkerle, Robot Colonies book, Sandia, SRI, Sussex-Quinn, teleassistance, USC, Virg.Tech, Xerox
  • Flocking: IFI-Zurich, Graves, flocks, social robots, swarm-bots, iSwarm [1] [2] [3], Darpa, SmartMobs
  • Mataric & her herding learners: homepage, article, herd of nerds, group foraging, links, [nec], [sra]
  • R. Kube: homepage - also CiteSeer
  • Swarm Engineering: Kazadi [Jisan]
  • Puck-sorting Robots: Melhuish, [2] Bowen, O.Holland [1] [2], Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Ralph Beckers, Rod Goodman
  • Distributed Robotics: CMU

    <| Evolutionary Robotics

  • Research: resources [Nolfi], NRL, EvoWeb, Floreano, neurocontrollers
  • ---- Sussex: COGS/Sussex [1] [2], research - inc Inman Harvey, Phil Husbands, Dave Cliff [1] [2] [3] [4], gasnets, DiPaolo
  • ---- papers: hardware
  • Books: "Evolutionary Robotics" [Nolfi] [review] [Amazon review], "Evolutionary Robotics" symposium [search]
  • Simulators: Evorobot 1.1, ER.Toolbox
  • Misc: google search, tutorial, symposium, emergent minds, biobot, robot farm, evol.computing

    <| Emergence

  • Expanded list on Swarm Intelligence, Emergence, and Complexity.

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