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Newbie / Hello, and opinions on robotics
« on: May 13, 2015, 03:47:46 AM »
Greetings!

Although this question is not strictly related to DB, I was hoping I could have your insight... I have been an enthusiast in BEAM robotics for a while (click here for details) but have started to shift away from analog circuits to microprocessor designs in order to simulate greater complexity. Although using a processor means I could just directly program in behavior, that somewhat defeats the purpose of making the robot biomorphic.

Basically the only requirements are that the design be biologically-inspired in some way and fits on an arduino-like microcontroller (atmel, picaxe, parallax propeller), though the ability to learn and give time-dependent output would be nice too. The sensors/inputs will not be very complex, being something along the lines of 2 microphones, 2 light sensors and 3 touch sensors, while the output would be movement direction, pan/tilt for the light/sound sensors, and a speaker. By time-dependent output I'm refering to the ability to give output that changes with time as well as sensor input, such as leg motor movement (where the leg must move up for say, half a second, move forward, move down, move back, and repeat).

I've been considering a lot of options, such as cellular automata, neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc... But I was hoping I could have your viewpoint as well. Thoughts?

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