Robotics Tutorials

This is a listing of robotics tutorials submitted by Robotics Society of Southern California members.

Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and First Order Logic

By Arthur Ed LeBouthillier

This article was published in the September 1999 issue of The Robot Builder.

There are many different approaches to creating artificial intelligence in computers and, for our
purposes, intelligent robots. Since the founding of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), symbolic
approaches have persisted. Symbolic approaches represent problems...

The New Millennium Remote Agent Architecture

by Arthur Ed LeBouthillier

This article was published in the August 1999 issue of Ther Robot Builder.

In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spacecraft embodying HAL was essentially a large robot. It was composed of an artificial intelligent component, HAL, and the spaceship itself with all of its automatic effector systems. HAL, although a fictional program, represented an entity...

W. Grey Walter and his Turtle Robots

by Arthur Ed LeBouthillier

This article appeared in the May 1999 issue of "The Robot Builder"

 

Simple robots based on animal-like neural systems and behaviors may seem like a novelty today, but they have their genesis in the work of one of the early pioneers of robotics and artificial life, W. Grey Walter. W. Grey Walter developed a...