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A Subdivision Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation
(1982-12-01)
A hierarchical representation for configuration space is presented, along with an algorithm for searching that space for collision-free paths. The detail of the algorithm are presented for polygonal obstacles and a ...
Computers, Brains, and the Control of Movement
(1982-06-01)
Many of the problems associated with the planning and execution of human arm trajectories are illuminated by planning and control strategies which have been developed for robotic manipulators. This comparison may ...
How to Play Twenty Questions with Nature and Win
(1982-12-01)
The 20 Questions Game played by children has an impressive record of rapidly guessing an arbitrarily selected object with rather few, well-chosen questions. This same strategy can be used to drive the perceptual process, ...
Workshop on the Design and Control of Dextrous Hands
(1982-04-01)
The Workshop for the Design and Control of Dexterous Hands was held at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on November 5-6, 1981. Outside experts were brought together to discuss four topics: kinematics of hands, ...
A Primer for TEX Users
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-03)
TEX is our latest text formatter. It is designed specifically for technical text (e.g., mathematics), and produces much higher quality output than other formatters previously available. Donald Knuth designed TEX at Stanford ...
Programming Cliches and Cliche Extraction
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-02)
The programmer's apprentice (PA) is an automated program development tool. The PA depends upon a library of common algorithms (cliches) as the source of its knowledge about programming. The PA can be made more usable if ...
A Guide to ITS Operations: Useful Spells and Incantations
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-01-27)
It is said that it is not wise to dabble in the Arts without care and caution, for the spell is at once subtle and dangerous: Look herein! For if you read carefully and closely, you can incant a Word of Magic, and the ...
The Assq Chip and Its Progeny
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-01)
The Assq Chip lives on the memory bus of the Scheme-81 chip of Sussman et al and serves as a utility for the computation of a number of functions concerned with the maintenance of linear tables and lists. Motivated by a ...
Report on the Second Workshop on Distributed AI
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-01)
On June 24, 1981 twenty-five participants from organizations around the country gathered in MIT's Endicott House for the Second Annual Workshop on Distributed AI. The three-day workshop was designed as an informal meeting, ...
Aspects of the Rover Problem
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-12)
The basic task of a rover is to move about automonously in an unknown environment. A working rover must have the following three subsystems which interact in various ways: 1) locomotion--the ability to move, 2) perception--the ...