This is not so much a patchwork sort of thing, but rather on-the-fly course correction, and waiting until the last minute so that only the data you actually need has to be calculated. I wish I had some references handy, but unfortunately this is one of those situations where I've read several articles on the topic but failed to memorize the location where I read them. If I happen across one again, I'll be sure to post it.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > 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> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-bcb45fb4> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> > ------------------------------------------- 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
