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The Fundamental Eel Equations
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1975-12)
Details of the kinematics, statics, and dynamics of a particularly simple form of locomotory system are developed to demonstrate the importance of understanding the behavior of the mechanical system interposed between the ...
Evolving Parallel Programs
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-05)
Message passing is directed toward the production of programs that are intended to execute efficiently in a computing environment with a large number of processors. The paradigm attempts to address the computational issues ...
Mini-Robot Group User's Guide Part 2: Access From ITS
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1978-06)
Part 2 of the MINI-ROBOT USER'S GUIDE describes those devices attached to the mini-robot system which may be accessed from ITS, and describes the appropriate software for accessing them. Specifically, the photowriter, ...
Mini-Robot Group User's Guide Part 1: The 11/45 System
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1978-06)
This USER'S GUIDE is in two parts. Part 1 describes the facilities of the mini-robot group 11/45 and the software available to persons using those facilities. It is intended for those writing their own programs to be run ...
Using Message Passing Instead of the GOTO Construct
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1978-04)
This paper advocates a programming methodology using message passing. Efficient programs are derived for fast exponentiation, merging ordered sequences, and path existence determination in a directed graph. The problems ...
The Position of the Sun
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1978-03)
The appearance of a surface depends dramatically on how it is illuminated. In order to interpret properly satellite and aerial imagery, it is necessary to know the position of the sun in the sky. This is particularly ...
What is Delaying the Manipulator Revolution?
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1978-02)
Despite two decades of work on mechanical manipulators and their associated controls, we do not see wide-spread application of these devices to many of the tasks to which they seem so obviously suited. Somehow, a variety ...
Application of Data Flow Computation to the Shaded Image Problem
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1978-05)
This paper presents a method of producing shaded images of terrain at an extremely fast rate by exploiting parallelism. The architecture of the Data Flow Computer is explained along with an appropriate "program" to compute ...
Hierarchy in Knowledge Representations
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-11)
This paper discusses a number of problems faced in communicating expertise and common sense to a computer, and the approaches taken by several current knowledge representation languages towards solving these problems. The ...
Numerical Shape from Shading and Occluding Contours in a Single View
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-11)
An iterative method of using occluding boundary information is proposed to compute surface slope from shading.
We use a stereographic space rather than the more commonly used gradient space in order to express occluding ...