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John Fischer

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AAAI Conference 1996 Conference Paper

Doing Tasks with Multiple Mini-Robots

John Fischer
Dirk Edmonds

We are interested in building robots that are simple and have limited computing power yet are capable of surviving in an unstructured environment while achieving their assigned task. We have shown that even with limited computing small robots can learn how to achieve their task (Hougen et al. 1996)) provided that the task is not extremely difficult and the learning algorithm is capable of fast learning.

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ICRA Conference 1996 Conference Paper

Fast connectionist learning for trailer backing using a real robot

Dean F. Hougen
John Fischer
Maria L. Gini
James R. Slagle

This paper presents the application of a connectionist control-learning system to an autonomous mini-robot. The system's design is severely constrained by the computing power and memory available on board the mini-robot and the on-board training time is greatly limited by the short life of the battery. The system is capable of rapid unsupervised learning of output responses in temporal domains through the use of eligibility traces and data sharing within topologically defined neighborhoods.

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