Archive for November, 2005

frankesteinbot is alive!

November 28th, 2005

ok, my sweet bot is working now, I have made the corrections according to the feedback I got from James N. Sears(countless thanks to you James) and here is the feedback :
A few things to look at:
According to http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/2N/2N3904.pdf the pinout from closest to farthest in the picture on the web page is emitter - […]


mechanics, thanksgiving progress

November 26th, 2005

The floor was opened from 12 to 6 today. I worked all day about the final and it was fruitful, I built the device and also I happened to get smooth results from photocells, tomorrow I am hoping to add motors to the circuit and get it working at least.
There are some problems […]


test

November 26th, 2005

test of the new layout try for permanence. test2, first is failure.
I think we succeeded.


recognition

November 26th, 2005

Whole neural nets theory is mostly applied to recognition systems. I have found some journals that could be helpful in the future. Plus the content is interesting and fresh. Here they are:
- Image and Vision Computing
- Pattern Recognition
And some random article fishing :)
-Object segmentation using maximum neural networks for the gesture recognition system
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final progress

November 25th, 2005

I got the parts from Images SI url, I have two gear motors, 2 rubber wheels and one omnidirectional wheel as the front wheel.. I got the plate last week from canal street witht he u bracket and the rods so do I need anymore parts on a second thought… I guess I am […]


connectionism and neural networks

November 16th, 2005

I was reading and trying to clear it in my mind of all those concepts of connectionism, behavior-based systems, neural networks, cognitive synthetic psychology and I am not having an easy time.
So;
connectionism is an approach which models behavior phenomena as the emergent processes of interconnected network of units [which are neurons that are connected as […]


Couple of reference links

November 15th, 2005

BEAM Robotics
BEAM is alternatively said to stand for: Building Evolution Anarchy Modularity Biotechnology Ethnology Analogy Morphology.
Most BEAM robots are unusually simple in design compared to traditional mobile robots, and trade off flexibility in purpose for robustness of performance.
BEAM style robots are coming from behavior-based robotics approach.
The school of behavior-based robots owes much to […]


Final Project Proposal for Pcomp and ICM []hopefully]

November 15th, 2005

I put the page online. I believe it has some errors in itself conceptually, some gaps that needed to be filled, I am sure they are going to be [besides my thoughts] improved in this progress. From now on I am going to begin to document all data I have read about this […]


History of Behavior-Based robotics

November 14th, 2005

Actually first actual robot that is artificially intelligent was done through 40s by Grey Walter. There is a good historical data on how he did it in here.


Behavior-based systems

November 14th, 2005

The trend continues in my mind spreading to other classes as well. It all started with the Markov chains in algorithmic composition. Honestly I wasn’t expecting that class was going to open up my view so much, it totally gave me that relieved feeling of finding something new and and an urge to explore […]