Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine by J. Storrs Hall

Author:J. Storrs Hall [J. Storrs Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-06-29T22:51:00+00:00

Fig. 13.1: Robot I (left) and a map of its environment showing a sticky patch and a valley. A slice of the robot's memory (right) in the position/velocity plane (heavy line is v = 0) for zero force.

Robot 1's environment is simply a line, but at various places along the line, friction exists or doesn't, and external forces can appear as if there were hills or valleys.

We could easily control Robot 1 with a standard setup from control/systems theory, such as a PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller, but we won't. Instead, Robot 1 has a memory. At every moment, the robot's position, velocity, the force it's exerting, and rate of change of that force are recorded as a point in four-dimensional space and linked to previous and next points. So there is a curve threaded through the space that represents the robot's history.

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