Aaron: ..the old approach to making robots walk. The robot would take a step and then spend hours performing calculus operations on a model of the robot's leg to determine how the next step should proceed. The newer approach takes a simpler approach of letting the leg itself be its own model, and making real-time corrections to its movement as the robot recognizes it going the wrong direction. It's this on-the-fly correction combined with letting the system be its own model that I see as a good way to deal with impossible-seeming computational problems
Aaron, can you provide some refs. on this newer approach in robotics – with which I v.much agree. I’ve talked a lot here in the past about the improvisational/patchwork approach to AGI. In fact, there is a small amount of computational tradition here, apparently – the “bricolage” approach to computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage If anyone knows more about that, I’d also be interested to hear. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
