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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Shows how intelligent agents can be built using AI methods and explains how different agent designs are appropriate depending on the nature of the task and environment.
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Legged movement

Hi Brad,

A while ago I stumbled across this website, which is a demonstration of virtual robots that had control over their own structure via self-evolution.

http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/golem/

With only knowledge of the possible joints they allowed to use, these virtual robots (of which they actually built the best performing) pretty quickly learnt to 'walk'

Most of the robots wouldnt use what you'd call normal motion though.

The following pdf is a syllabus for a course on robotic legged motion,
and although the syllabus probably won't be much use to you, there is
a very good set of references at the end of it which I think you'll
find good starting points.

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/6894/handouts/syllabus.pdf

good luck with the little dude, let us know when he/she can walk

Andy

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Saturday 09 March, 06:34
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thanks

Thanks for the links guys, some great sites there - especially the golem project. I'm going to play around with neural nets tonight to try and solve some simple problems, it should be fun. I'm thinking that I might want to try and use a genetic algorithm to create my neural net - has anyone done this & had success. I initially came to this site because I wanted to solve my walking problem without hand programming motion control & now I'm very interested in this whole AI thing, it is really quite cool!

Brad

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Sunday 10 March, 21:15
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Karl Sims

Yeah, AI can get really funky before you even realise it ;) That can be a problem in the long run, but my suggestion is to just enjoy it :P

If you're going to look into evolution, Karl Sims' work is a landmark. See this thread for more information.

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Monday 11 March, 04:42
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