Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, Brian Scassellati, Mit Artificial, Intelligence Laboratory
the Czech robota (forced labor). Limited to work too tedious or dangerous for humans, today s robots weld parts on assembly lines, inspect nuclear plants, and explore other planets. Generally, robots...
Abstract Technologies for Human/Humanoid Natural Interactions (2008)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Brian Scassellati
There are a number of reasons to be interested in building humanoid robots. They include (1) since almost all human artifacts have been designed to easy for humans to interact with, humanoid robots...
Abstract Learning to Coordinate Behaviors (2008)
We describe an algorithm which allows a behavior-based robot to learn on the basis of positive and negative feedback when to activate its behaviors. In accordance with the philosophy of...
A Critique of Common Lisp (2008)
Rodney A. Brooks, Richard P. Gabriel
Amajor goal of the COMMON LISP committee was to define a Lisp language with sufficient power and generality that people would be happy to stay within its confines and thus write inherently...
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, Brian Scassellati, Mit Artificial, Intelligence Laboratory
the Czech robota (forced labor). Limited to work too tedious or dangerous for humans, today s robots weld parts on assembly lines, inspect nuclear plants, and explore other planets. Generally, robots...
Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence (2007)
Panel Statement Bart, Bart Selman, Rodney A. Brooks, Thomas Dean, Eric Horvitz, Tom M. Mitchell, ...
Introduction: Bart Selman AI textbooks and papers often discuss the big questions, such as "how to reason with uncertainty", "how to reason efficiently", or "how to improve...
Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence (2007)
Panel Statement Bart, Bart Selman, Rodney A. Brooks, Thomas Dean, Eric Horvitz, Tom M. Mitchell, ...
Introduction: Bart Selman AI textbooks and papers often discuss the big questions, such as "how to reason with uncertainty", "how to reason efficiently", or "how to improve...
Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence (2007)
Panel Statement, Bart Selman, Rodney A. Brooks, Thomas Dean, Eric Horvitz, Tom M. Mitchell, ...
Introduction: Bart Selman AI textbooks and papers often discuss the big questions, such as "how to reason with uncertainty", "how to reason efficiently", or "how to improve...
Planning Collision Free Motions for Pick and Place Operation (2007)
Abstract. An efficient algorithm which finds collision free paths for a manipulator witii 5 or 6 revolute joints is described. It solves the problem for four degree of frcedonl pick and place...
Alternative Essences of Intelligence (2007)
Brooks, Rodney A., Breazeal, Cynthia, Irie, Robert, Kemp, Charles C., Marjanovic, Matthew, Scassellati, Brian, ...
We present a novel methodology for building humanlike artificially intelligent systems. We take as a model the only existing systems which are universally accepted as intelligent: humans. We...
Building Brains for Bodies (2006)
Brooks, Rodney A., Stein, Lynn A.
We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We will build an integrated physical system including vision, sound...
Evolutionary, Developmental Neural Networks for Robust Robotic Control (2006)
The use of artificial evolution to synthesize controllers for physical robots is still in its infancy. Most applications are on very simple robots in artificial environments, and even these examples...
Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Interaction Cues (CD-ROM) (2005)
ELECTRONIC FILE CHARACTERISTICS: 74 files; Adobe Acrobat (.PDF). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 CD-ROM; 4 3/4 in.; 207 MB. ABSTRACT: We proposed developing the perceptual and intellectual abilities of...
Certified by.......................................................... (2000)
Holly A. Yanco, Rodney A. Brooks, A. Yanco
An assistive robotic wheelchair system should allow its user to travel more efficiently and with greater ease. The robotic wheelchair system described in this thesis, Wheelesley, performs...
Humanoid robots: a new kind of tool (2000)
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, Brian Scassellati, Mit Artificial, Intelligence Laboratory
as a derivative of the Czech robota (forced labor). Limited to work too tedious or dangerous for humans, today’s robots weld parts on assembly lines, inspect nuclear plants, and explore other...
Meso: A virtual musculature for humanoid motor control (2000)
Rodney A. Brooks, Arthur C. Smith, Bryan Adams, Bryan Adams
Humanoid behavior requires a system with access to humanoid variables. Our humanoid robot, Cog, has two arms that are structurally similar to those of humans; however, the sensory system only...
Humanoid Robots New, Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, Brian Scassellati, Mit Artificial, ...
rom radically different research agendas and underlying assumptions. At the MIT AI ab, three basic principles guide our research . We design humanoid robots to act autonomously and safely, without...
Humanoid robots: a new kind of tool (2000)
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, Brian Scassellati, Mit Artificial, Intelligence Laboratory
as a derivative of the Czech robota (forced labor). Limited to work too tedious or dangerous for humans, today’s robots weld parts on assembly lines, inspect nuclear plants, and explore other...
Cambrian intelligence : the early history of the new AI (1999)
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The Cog project: Building a humanoid robot (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Matthew Marjanović, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson
Abstract. To explore issues of developmental structure, physical embodiment, integration of multiple sensory and motor systems, and social interaction, we have constructed an upper-torso humanoid...
The Cog project: Building a humanoid robot (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson
Abstract. To explore issues of developmental structure, physical embodiment, integration of multiple sensory and motor systems, and social interaction, we have constructed an upper-torso humanoid...
The Cog project: Building a humanoid robot (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson
Abstract. To explore issues of developmental structure, physical embodiment, integration of multiple sensory and motor systems, and social interaction, we have constructed an upper-torso humanoid...
Robot Arm Control Exploiting Natural Dynamics (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Arthur C. Smith, Matthew M. Williamson, Matthew M. Williamson
This thesis presents an approach to robot arm control exploiting natural dynamics. The approach consists of using a compliant arm whose joints are controlled with simple non-linear oscillators. The...
The Cog project: Building a humanoid robot (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Matthew Marjanović, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson
Abstract. To explore issues of developmental structure, physical embodiment, integration of multiple sensory and motor systems, and social interaction, we have constructed an upper-torso humanoid...
The Cog project: Building a humanoid robot (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Matthew Marjanović, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson
Abstract. To explore issues of developmental structure, physical embodiment, integration of multiple sensory and motor systems, and social interaction, we have constructed an upper-torso humanoid...
Robot Arm Control Exploiting Natural Dynamics (1999)
Rodney A. Brooks, Arthur C. Smith, Matthew M. Williamson, Matthew M. Williamson
A Subdivision Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation. (1998)
Brooks,Rodney A., Lozano-Perez,Tomas
In this paper the authors present an algorithm for finding collision-free paths for a rigid polygonal object moving through space that is cluttered with obstacle polygons. The paths can include...
Self Calibration of Motion and Stereo Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation. (1998)
Brooks, Rodney A., Flynn, Anita M., Marill, Thomas
We report on experiments with a mobile robot using one vision process (forward motion vision) to calibrate another (stereo vision) without resorting to any external units of measurement. Both are...
A Robot that Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network. (1998)
Most animals have significant behavioral expertise built in without having to explicitly learn it all from scratch. This expertise is a product of evolution of the organisms; it can be viewed as a...
Squirt: The Prototypical Mobile Robot for Autonomous Graduate Students. (1998)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A., Barrett, David S.
This paper describes an exercise in building a complete robot aimed at being as small as possible but using off the shelf components exclusively. The results is an autonomous mobile robot slightly...
Panel Review of the Semi-Automated Forces. (1998)
Brooks, Rodney A., Buchanan, Bruce G., Lenat, Douglas B., McKeown, David M., Fletcher, J. D.
This report documents a review of the technical approach used to develop the semi-automated forces (SAFOR) portion of DARPA's Advanced Simulation Technology Program. The review was conducted in...
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control. (1998)
Brooks, Rodney A., Flynn, Anita M.
Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. The longer the...
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A.
In the four years that the MIT Mobile Robot Project has been in existence, we have built ten robots that focus research in various areas concerned with building intelligent systems. Towards this end,...
Twilight Zones and Cornerstones. A Gnat Robot Double Feature. (1998)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A., Taurow, Lee S.
We want to build tiny gnat-sized robots, a millimeter or two in diameter. They will be cheap, disposable, totally self-contained autonomous agents able to do useful things in the world. This paper...
Piezoelectric Micromotors for Microrobots. (1998)
Flynn, Anita M., Tavrow, Lee S., Bart, Stephen F., Brooks, Rodney A.
Mobile robots are able to carry more and more intelligence (and in smaller packages) onboard everyday. Now we would like to match the brawn of our robots to the same scale as the brain. Towards this...
Intelligence without Reason. (1998)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together define Artificial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Artificial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Interaction Cues (1998)
When a person gives a task to another person there are at least two sorts of very human processes at work. At the surface level, each person both displays and perceives cross-cultural cues which...
Piezoelectric Micromotors for Microrobots. (1998)
Flynn, Anita M., Tavrow, Lee S., Bart, Stephen F., Brooks, Rodney A., Ehrlich, Daniel J.
Alternative essences of intelligence (1998)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal (ferrell, Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew Marjanović, Brian Scassellati, ...
We present a novel methodology for building humanlike artificially intelligent systems. We take as a model the only existing systems which are universally accepted as intelligent: humans. We...
Certified by..................................................... (1998)
Junji Yamato, Rodney A. Brooks, Arthur C. Smith, Junji Yamato
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Alternative essences of intelligence (1998)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal (ferrell, Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Brian Scassellati, Matthew Williamson
We present a novel methodology for building humanlike artificially intelligent systems. We take as a model the only existing systems which are universally accepted as intelligent: humans. We...
Alternative Essences of Intelligence (1998)
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal (Ferrell), Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati, ...
We present a novel methodology for building humanlike artificially intelligent systems. We take as a model the only existing systems which are universally accepted as intelligent: humans. We...
Visually-guided obstacle avoidance in unstructured environments (1997)
Liana M. Lorigo, Rodney A. Brooks
This paper presents an autonomous vision-based obstacle avoidance system. The system consists of three independent vision modules for obstacle detection, each of which is computationally simple and...
The Intelligent Room Project (1997)
Rodney A. Brooks, Darren Dang, Jeremy De Bonet, Joshua Kramer, Tomas Lozano-perez, John Mellor, ...
At the MIT Arti cial Intelligence Laboratory we have been working on technologies for an Intelligent Room. Rather than pull people into the virtual world of the computer we are trying to pull the...
Visually Guided Reaching for an Autonomous Mars Rover (1997)
Mars Rover, Rodney A. Brooks, Frederic R. Morgenthaler, Chandana Paul, Chandana Paul
This thesis describes the design and implementation of an engineering solution to the problem of autonomous geological sampling with a manipulator mounted on a robot Mars Rover. Most of the research...
The Intelligent Room Project (1997)
Rodney A. Brooks, Darren Dang, Jeremy De Bonet, Joshua Kramer, John Mellor, Polly Pook, ...
At the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory we have been working on technologies for an Intelligent Room. Rather than pull people into the virtual world of the computer we are trying to pull the...
Visually-Guided Obstacle Avoidance in Unstructured Environments (1997)
Liana M. Lorigo, Rodney A. Brooks
This paper presents an autonomous vision-based obstacle avoidance system. The system consists of three independent vision modules for obstacle detection, each of which is computationally simple and...
Prospects for human level intelligence for humanoid robots (1996)
Both direct, and evolved, behavior-based approaches to mobile robots have yielded a number of interesting demonstrations of robots that navigate, map, plan and operate in the real world. The work can...
Both direct, and evolved, behavior-based approaches to mobile robots have yielded a number of interesting demonstrations of robots that navigate, map, plan and operate in the real world. The work can...
Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence (1996)
Bart Selman, Rodney A. Brooks, Thomas Dean, Eric Horvitz, Tom M. Mitchell, Nils J. Nilsson
Introduction: Bart Selman AI textbooks and papers often discuss the big questions, such as "how to reason with uncertainty", "how to reason efficiently", or "how to improve...
Prospects for Human Level Intelligence for Humanoid Robots (1996)
Both direct, and evolved, behavior-based approaches to mobile robots have yielded a number of interesting demonstrations of robots that navigate, map, plan and operate in the real world. The work can...
Challenge problems for artificial intelligence (1996)
Bart Selman, Rodney A. Brooks, Thomas Dean, Eric Horvitz, Tom M. Mitchell, Nils J. Nilsson
AI textbooks and papers often discuss the big questions, such as "how to reason with uncertainty", "how to reason efficiently", or "how to improve performance through...
Rodney A. Brooks, Robert Eiichi Irie, Robert Eiichi Irie
Localizing sounds with different frequency and time domain characteristics in a dynamic listening environment is a challenging task that has not been explored in the field of robotics as much as...
Robust Sound Localization: An Application of an Auditory Perception System for a Humanoid (1995)
Rodney A. Brooks, Frederic R. Morgenthaler, Robert Eiichi Irie, Robert Eiichi Irie
Localizing sounds with different frequency and time domain characteristics in a dynamic listening environmentisachallenging task that has not been explored in the field of robotics as much as other...
Building Brains for Bodies (1994)
Rodney A. Brooks, Andrea Stein
We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We are building an integrated physical system including vision, sound...
Building Brains for Bodies (1994)
Rodney A. Brooks, Lynn Andrea Stein
We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We will build an integrated physical system including vision, sound...
Interaction and Intelligent Behavior (1994)
Rodney A. Brooks, Frederic R. Morgenthaler, Maja J Mataric, Maja J Mataric
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Building Brains for Bodies (1994)
Rodney A. Brooks, Lynn Andrea Stein
We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We will build an integrated physical system including vision, sound...
Building Brains for Bodies (1994)
Rodney A. Brooks, Lynn Andrea Stein, Andrea Stein
We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We are building an integrated physical system including vision, sound...
Building Brains for Bodies (1994)
Rodney A. Brooks, Lynn Andrea Stein
We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We will build an integrated physical system including vision, sound...
Artificial Life and Real Robots (1992)
The first part of this paper explores the general issues in using Artificial Life techniques to program actual mobile robots. In particular it explores the difficulties inherent in transferring...
Artificial Life and Real Robots (1992)
The first part of this paper explores the general issues in using Artificial Life techniques to program actual mobile robots. In particular it explores the difficulties inherent in transferring...
Intelligence Without Reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together define Artificial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Artificial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
Intelligence Without Reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together define Artificial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Artificial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
Piezoelectric Micromotors for Microrobots (1991)
Flynn, Anita M., Tavrow, Lee S., Bart, Stephen F., Brooks, Rodney A.
By combining new robot control systems with piezoelectric motors and micromechanics, we propose creating micromechanical systems which are small, cheap and completely autonomous. We have fabricated...
Piezoelectric Micromotors for Microrobots (1991)
Flynn, Anita M., Tavrow, Lee S., Bart, Stephen F., Brooks, Rodney A.
By combining new robot control systems with piezoelectric motors and micromechanics, we propose creating micromechanical systems which are small, cheap and completely autonomous. We have fabricated...
Intelligence without representation (1991)
Artificial intelligence research has foundered on the issue of representation. When intelligence is approached in an incremental manner, with strict reliance on interfacing to the real world through...
Intelligence without representation (1991)
Artificial intelligence research has foundered on the issue of representation. When intelligence is approached in an incremental manner, with strict reliance on interfacing to the real world through...
New Approaches to Robotics (1991)
In order to build autonomous robots that can carry out useful work in unstructured environments new approaches have been developed to building intelligent systems. The relationship to traditional...
Intelligence without representation (1991)
Artificial intelligence research has foundered on the issue of representation. When intelligence is approached in an incremental manner, with strict reliance on interfacing to the real world through...
Intelligence without reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together de ne Arti cial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Arti cial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
Intelligence without reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together de ne Arti cial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Arti cial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
Intelligence Without Reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together define Artificial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Artificial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
How to Build Complete Creatures Rather than Isolated Cognitive Simulators (1991)
this paper for subsumption programs have physical embodiments as copper wires which provide the medium to support the serial sensing of messages. Herbert has 30 infrared proximity sensors for local...
Integrated Systems Based on Behaviors (1991)
Behavior based systems require an orthogonal view of integration issues. In this paper we highlight those issues, discuss what is easy, what is hard, and where the research frontiers lie....
The Role of Learning in Autonomous Robots (1991)
Applications of learning to autonomous agents (simulated or real) have often been restricted to learning a mapping from perceived state of the world to the next action to take. Often this is couched...
Intelligence without reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together de ne Arti cial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Arti cial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
Intelligence without reason (1991)
Computers and Thought are the two categories that together de ne Arti cial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Arti cial Intelligence over the last thirty years has...
The Behavior Language; User's Guide (1990)
The Behavior Language is a rule-based real-time parallel robot programming language originally based on ideas from [Brooks 86], [Connell 89], and [Maes 89]. It compiles into a modified and extended...
The Behavior Language; User's Guide (1990)
The Behavior Language is a rule-based real-time parallel robot programming language originally based on ideas from [Brooks 86], [Connell 89], and [Maes 89]. It compiles into a modified and extended...
Elephants don't play chess (1990)
Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he leads the mobile robot group. He has authored two books, numerous scientific papers, and is...
The behavior language; user's guide (1990)
The Behavior Language is a rule-based real-time parallel robot programming language originally based on ideas from [Brooks 86], [Connell 89], and [Maes 89]. It compiles into a modi ed and extended...
Colin M. Angle, Rodney A. Brooks
We argue that small rovers on the order of I to 2 Kg are suitable for planetary exploration [Brooks and Flynn 89]. Not only are they extremely cost effective, but they also enable a number of new...
The behavior language; user's guide (1990)
The Behavior Language is a rule-based real-time parallel robot programming language originally based on ideas from [Brooks 86], [Connell 89], and [Maes 89]. It compiles into a modified and extended...
Elephants don't play chess (1990)
Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he leads the mobile robot group. He has authored two books, numerous scientific papers, and is...
Learning to Coordinate Behaviors (1990)
P. Maes, R. Brooks, Pattie Maes, Rodney A. Brooks
We describe an algorithm which allows a behavior-based robot to learn on the basis of positive and negative feedback when to activate its behaviors. In accordance with the philosophy of...
Challenges for Complete Creature Architectures (1990)
In recent years there has been a move within the artificial intelligence and robotics communities towards building complete autonomous creatures that operate in the physical world. Certain approaches...
Colin M. Angle, Rodney A. Brooks
Introduction We argue that small rovers on the order of I to 2 Kg are suitable for planetary exploration [Brooks and Flynn 89]. Not only are they extremely cost effective, but they also enable a...
Elephants don't play chess (1990)
Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he leads the mobile robot group. He has authored two books, numerous scientific papers, and is...
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1989)
Brooks, Rodney A., Flynn, Anita M.
Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems and complex missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. We argue...
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1989)
Brooks, Rodney A., Flynn, Anita M.
Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems and complex missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. We argue...
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A.
In the four years that the MIT Mobile Robot Project has benn in existence, we have built ten robots that focus research in various areas concerned with building intelligent systems. Towards this end,...
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A.
In the four years that the MIT Mobile Robot Project has benn in existence, we have built ten robots that focus research in various areas concerned with building intelligent systems. Towards this end,...
Twilight Zones and Cornerstones: A Gnat Robot Double Feature (1989)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A., Tavrow, Lee S.
We want to build tiny gnat-sized robots, a millimeter or two in diameter. They will be cheap, disposable, totally self-contained autonomous agents able to do useful things in the world. This paper...
SQUIRT: The Prototypical Mobile Robot for Autonomous Graduate Students (1989)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A., Barrett, David S.
This paper describes an exercise in building a complete robot aimed at being as small as possible but using off-the-shelf components exclusively. The result is an autonomous mobile robot slightly...
SQUIRT: The Prototypical Mobile Robot for Autonomous Graduate Students (1989)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A., Barrett, David S.
This paper describes an exercise in building a complete robot aimed at being as small as possible but using off-the-shelf components exclusively. The result is an autonomous mobile robot slightly...
Twilight Zones and Cornerstones: A Gnat Robot Double Feature (1989)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A., Tavrow, Lee S.
We want to build tiny gnat-sized robots, a millimeter or two in diameter. They will be cheap, disposable, totally self-contained autonomous agents able to do useful things in the world. This paper...
A Robot that Walks: Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network (1989)
Most animals have significant behavioral expertise built in without having to explicitly learn it all from scratch. This expertise is a product of evolution of the organism; it can be viewed as a...
A Robot that Walks: Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network (1989)
Most animals have significant behavioral expertise built in without having to explicitly learn it all from scratch. This expertise is a product of evolution of the organism; it can be viewed as a...
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System (1989)
Rodney A. Brooks, Anita M. Flynn
Complex systems and complex missions take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. The longer the planning and the more expensive the mission, the more catastrophic if it...
Fast, cheap and out of control (1989)
Rodney A. Brooks, Anita M. Flynn
Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems and complex missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. The...
Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control: A Robot Invasion Of The Solar System (1989)
Rodney A. Brooks, Anita M. Flynn
this paper, we demonstrate that technology has progressed to the stage where we can tackle both of these problems simultaneously by creating swarms of totally autonomous microrovers in the I to 2 Kg...
Herbert: A Second Generation Mobile Robot (1988)
Brooks, Rodney A., Connell, Jonathan, Ning, Peter
In mobile robot research we believe the structure of the platform, its capabilities, the choice of sensors, their capabilities, and the choice of processors, both onboard and offboard, greatly...
Herbert: A Second Generation Mobile Robot (1988)
Brooks, Rodney A., Connell, Jonathan, Ning, Peter
In mobile robot research we believe the structure of the platform, its capabilities, the choice of sensors, their capabilities, and the choice of processors, both onboard and offboard, greatly...
MIT Mobile Robots - What's Next? (1987)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A.
The MIT Mobile Robot Project began in January of 1985 with the objective of building machines that could operate autonomously and robustly in dynamically changing environments. We now have four...
MIT Mobile Robots - What's Next? (1987)
Flynn, Anita M., Brooks, Rodney A.
The MIT Mobile Robot Project began in January of 1985 with the objective of building machines that could operate autonomously and robustly in dynamically changing environments. We now have four...
Planning is Just a Way of Avoiding Figuring Out What To Do Next (1987)
The idea of planning and plan execution is just an intuition based decomposition. There is no reason it has to be that way. Most likely in the long term, real empirical evidence from systems we know...
Planning is Just a Way of Avoiding Figuring Out What To Do Next (1987)
The idea of planning and plan execution is just an intuition based decomposition. There is no reason it has to be that way. Most likely in the long term, real empirical evidence from systems we know...
Self Calibration of Motion and Stereo Vision for Mobile RobotsNavigation (1987)
Brooks, Rodney A., Flynn, Anita M., Marill, Thomas
We report on experiments with a mobile robot using one vision process (forward motion vision) to calibrate another (stereo vision) without resorting to any external units of measurement. Both are...
Self Calibration of Motion and Stereo Vision for Mobile RobotsNavigation (1987)
Brooks, Rodney A., Flynn, Anita M., Marill, Thomas
We report on experiments with a mobile robot using one vision process (forward motion vision) to calibrate another (stereo vision) without resorting to any external units of measurement. Both are...
Self calibration of motion and stereo vision for mobile robot navigation (1987)
Rodney A. Brooks, Anita M. Flynn, Thomas Marill
Abstract. We report on experiments with a mobile robot using one vision process (forward motion vision) to calibrate another (stereo vision) without resorting to any external units of measurement....
Elsevier Intelligence without representation* (1987)
Artificial intelligence research has foundered on the issue of representation. When intellig-ence is approached in an incremental manner, with strict reliance on interfacing to the real world through...
Achieving Artificial Intelligence through Building Robots (1986)
We argue that generally accepted methodologies of Artificial Intelligence research are limited in the proportion of human level intelligence they can be expected to emulate. We argue that the...
Achieving Artificial Intelligence through Building Robots (1986)
We argue that generally accepted methodologies of Artificial Intelligence research are limited in the proportion of human level intelligence they can be expected to emulate. We argue that the...
A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot (1985)
We describe a new architecture for controlling mobile robots. Layers of control system are built to let the robot operate at increasing levels of competence. Layers are made up of asynchronous...
A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot (1985)
We describe a new architecture for controlling mobile robots. Layers of control system are built to let the robot operate at increasing levels of competence. Layers are made up of asynchronous...
An Approach to Automatic Robot Programming (1985)
Lozano-Perez, Tomas, Brooks, Rodney A.
In this paper we propose an architecture for a new task-level system, which we call TWAIN. Task-level programming attempts to simplify the robot programming process but requiring that the user...
An Approach to Automatic Robot Programming (1985)
Lozano-Perez, Tomas, Brooks, Rodney A.
In this paper we propose an architecture for a new task-level system, which we call TWAIN. Task-level programming attempts to simplify the robot programming process but requiring that the user...
We are building a mobile robot which will roam around the AI lab observing and later perhaps doing. Our approach to building the robot and its controlling software differs from that used in many...
We are building a mobile robot which will roam around the AI lab observing and later perhaps doing. Our approach to building the robot and its controlling software differs from that used in many...
Planning Collision Free Motions for Pick and Place Operations (1983)
An efficient algorithm which finds collision free paths for a manipulator with 5 or 6 revolute joints is described. It solves the problem for four degree of freedom pick and place operations....
Planning Collision Free Motions for Pick and Place Operations (1983)
An efficient algorithm which finds collision free paths for a manipulator with 5 or 6 revolute joints is described. It solves the problem for four degree of freedom pick and place operations....
Model-based three-dimensional interpretations of two-dimensional images (1983)
ACRONYM IS a comprehensive domain independent modelbased system for vision and manipulation related tasks. Many of its sub-modules and representations have been described elsewhere. Here the...
A Subdivision Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation (1982)
Brooks, Rodney A., Lozano-Perez, Tomas
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...
A Subdivision Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation (1982)
Brooks, Rodney A., Lozano-Perez, Tomas
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...
Symbolic Error Analysis and Robot Planning (1982)
A program to control a robot manipulator for industrial assembly operations must take into account possible errors in parts placement and tolerances of the parts themselves. Previous approaches to...
Symbolic Error Analysis and Robot Planning (1982)
A program to control a robot manipulator for industrial assembly operations must take into account possible errors in parts placement and tolerances of the parts themselves. Previous approaches to...
Solving the Find-Path Problem by Representing Free Space as Generalized Cones (1982)
Free space is represented as a union of (possibly overlapping) generalized cones. An algorithm is presented which efficiently finds good collision free paths for convex polygonal bodies through space...
Solving the Find-Path Problem by Representing Free Space as Generalized Cones (1982)
Free space is represented as a union of (possibly overlapping) generalized cones. An algorithm is presented which efficiently finds good collision free paths for convex polygonal bodies through space...
Solving the find-path problem by representing free space as generalized cones (1982)
Abstract. Free space is represented as a union of (possibly overlapping) generalized cones. An algorithm is presented which efficiently finds good collision free paths for convex polygonal bodies...
Data Acquisition and Data Reduction in the Neuro-PET
Sank, Victor J., Brooks, Rodney A.
The proposed computer data acquisition rate in the Neuro-PET of 1.5 Mhz has been exceeded by using a combination of DMA and micro-coding with the limiting rate being 1.67 Mhz. This high rate can only...
Energy Dependence of the Hounsfield Number
A standard definition is proposed for the Hounsfield number. Any CT number can be converted to the Hounsfield scale after performing a simple calibration using air and water. The energy dependence of...
Rodney Brooks Mit, Rodney A. Brooks, Darren Dang, Jeremy De Bonet, Joshua Kramer, John Mellor, ...
At the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory we have been working on technologies for an Intelligent Room. Rather than pull people into the virtual world of the computer we are trying to pull the...