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Newbie / Re: Hello, and opinions on robotics
« on: May 22, 2015, 04:57:54 PM »You probably don't want just the amount of battery left to affect behavior or the correct solution is to just stay in the charger ("the only winning move is not to play..."). At the simplest you could also have it try to move towards sounds. Balancing that "instinct" with the battery "instinct" should create interesting behavior.
That actually gives me a great idea... using battery voltage for reward, the neural network could experience "pain" if the voltage goes too low *or* too high, meaning remaining in the charger for too long will be painful (kind of like "overeating").
Right now I'm reading the neural networks and deep learning link you gave, it seems rather helpful though at this point I'm not sure a cpld/fpga would work, considering there's no way to change the weights in a neural network on one without reprogramming it, unless memory is also programmed into the fpga, meaning it must be that much more complex...
Anyway, most of what remains to be worked out is hardware, so I'll be heading out. If you guys care to see what the results are I'd be happy to show it here once it's done. Also, feel free to post more suggestions if you think of anything, I'll still check by from time to time.