Building Robigotchi

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 20:20:43 MDT


http://home.austin.rr.com/trenton/robigotchi.html
At the time I began constructing the mechanical portions, I didn"t really have a
good concept for the software. I continuously mulled ideas over in the back of
my mind while I soldered and glued, trying to decide what a robigotchi actually
does. Of course, the software had to be very simple if there was any hope of
finishing it on time. I wound up ditching several neural network "learning"
algorithms and settling for a simple subsumption architecture implementing
"collision evasion", "phototaxis", and "forward attraction" behaviors.



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