—It is desirable that colony robots be autonomous and self-sufficient, which requires that they can perform their duties while maintaining enough energy to operate. In previous w...
Abstract. In this paper we utilize information theory to study the impact in learning performance of various motivation and environmental configurations. This study is done within...
— A long cherished goal in artificial intelligence has been the ability to endow a robot with the capacity to learn and generalize skills from watching a human teacher. Such an ...
This paper describes a programming language extension of C++, called CES, specifically targeted towards mobile robot control. CES’s design is motivated by a recent series of su...
— Few robot tasks require as forceful an interaction with the world as excavation. In order to effectively plan its actions, our robot excavator requires a method that allows it ...