Search
Now showing items 121-130 of 521
The Little Robot System
(1973-01-01)
The Little Robot System provides for the I.T.S. user a medium size four degree of freedom six axis robot which is controlled by the PDP-6 computer through the programming language Lisp. The robot includes eight force ...
Why Conniving is Better than Planning
(1972-02-01)
A higher level language derives its great power form the fact that it tends to impose structure on the problem solving behavior for the user. Besides providing a library of useful subroutines with a uniform calling ...
Proposal to ARPA for Continuation of Micro-Automation Development
(1973-01-01)
This proposal discusses practical aspects of our project to produce a replicable research tool for development of real-world computer-controlled hand-eye systems. If this proposal is read out of context, it will not seem ...
How the GAS Program Works with a Note on Simulating Turtles with Touch Sensors
(1972-12-01)
The GAS program is a display simulation of a 2 dimensional ideal gas. Barriers, or walls, are line segments, and molecules, alias particles or balls, are circles. Collisions occur between balls and other balls as well ...
Manipulator Design Vignettes
(1972-10-01)
This memo is about mechanical arms. The literature on robotics seems to be deficient in such discussions, perhaps because not enough sharp theoretical problems have been formulated to attract interest. I'm sure many ...
The Making of the Film, SOLAR CORONA
(1973-02-01)
The film SOLAR CORONA was made from data taken from August 14, 1969 through May 7, 1970, by OSO-VI, one of the Orbiting Satellite Observatories. One of the experiments on board scanned across and up and down the image of ...
Finding the Skeleton of a Brick
(1973-03-01)
TC-SKELETONs duty is to help find the dimensions of brick shaped objects by searching for sets of three complete edges, one for each dimension. The program was originally written by Patrick Winston, and then was refined ...
Proposal to ARPA for Research on Artificial Intelligence at MIT, 1970-1971
(1970-12-01)
The MIT Artificial Intelligence Project has a variety of goals all bound together by search for principles of intelligent behavior. Among our immediate goals are to develop systems with practical applications for: ...
On Boundary Detection
(1970-07-01)
A description is given of how edge erase of prismatic objects appear through a television camera serving as visual input to a computer. Two types of edge-finding predicates are proposed and compared, one linear in intensity, ...
A User's Guide to the A.I. Group LISCOM LISP Complier: Interim Report
(1970-12-01)
The LISCOM version of the AI group PDP/6 LISP compiler is a descendant of the original Greenblatt-Nelson compiler, and is a friendly sibling to the COMPLR version maintained by Jon L. White. The compiler operates in two ...