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The Edinburgh Designer System as a framework for robotics: the design of behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

R. J. Popplestone
R. J. Popplestone
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Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, U.S.A.
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Abstract

I discuss how the capabilities of the Edinburgh Designer System can be extended and used to support symbolic computation for robotics. I conclude that the Algebra Engine requires to handle temporal constructs, groups and tolerances, that the taxonomy can support activity modules and that automatic plan formation would require the creation of a specialist.

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AI EDAM , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1987, pp. 25 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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