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Notes on robot design - see also lirec notes.
Deliberative vs Reactive
Think hard - then act!
- Capable of learning and prediction
- Finds strategic solution
but:
- Requires lots of computation - eg. brute force search for potential plan
- Needs a world model
- Slow
Don't think, react!
- Fast
- Powerful, biological parallel
but:
- Minimal state
- No memory
- No internal representation of the world
- Unable to plan ahead
- Unable to learn
Links
Artificial Intelligence versus classical Robotics: http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~mperkows/CLASS_479/hardware/014.Robot-Control-Architectures.ppt