- Abstract:
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of adding known amounts of memory to pure reactive systems in a variety of tasks. Using a finite state machine approach, we construct controllers for a simulated robot for five tasks ---obstable avoidance, wall following, exploration, and box pushing---with two sensor configurations using evolutionary computation techniques, and compare the performance of stateless and memory-based controllers. For obstacle avoidance and exploration no significant difference is observed; for wall-following and box pushing, stateless controllers are significantly worse than memory-based but increasing amounts of memory give no significant increase in performance. The need for memory in these cases reflects a need to discriminate sensorimotor contexts to effectively perform the task.
- Copyright:
- 2004 by The University of Edinburgh. All Rights Reserved
- Links To Paper
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- Bibtex format
- @Article{EDI-INF-RR-0214,
- author = {
DaeEun Kim
and John Hallam
},
- title = {Mobile Robot Control based on Boolean Logic with Internal Memory},
- journal = {Advances in Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
- publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
- year = 2004,
- month = {Jun},
- volume = {2159},
- }
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