Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01922
To: "beam@corp.sgi.com" beam@corp.sgi.com
From: James Wilson jameswilson@globalserve.net
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:44:25 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Socer bots/ Hive behaviour
This is really where the tire meets the road. The concept of Beam
(and I'm sure if there are people out there that disagree with me they
will tell me so) is to create robots with innate intelligence, i.e.
humans have innate intelligence in all of our cells. They know when
they are hungry or when they are full they can fight disease or heal
wounds. Other examples would include placing your hand on a red hot
oven burner and quick as lightning yoink its off then you think wow that
was hot then you feel an adrenaline rush then comes the pain. All
increasing in orders of though levels or processes.
To make bots that work together weather it be as a hive or as a
soccer team one thing is certain. Beam alone can not do it. I can
think of only one way pure beam bots would work together but it would
not be as a team more as a group of individuals with a common goal.
Place an IR. tag on the 'ball', set two teams of bots after that ball.
One team would be attracted to the ball and once they are in contact
with the ball a new process starts move to the new IR. signal. If
contact with the ball is lost it reverts to seek out the ball's IR.
signature. This would end up with a Rugby like scrum occurring but
instead of two teams opposing each other we would end up with two groups
of like minded bots opposing each other very different.
Thus, to make a group of bots work as a team we must give them a
brain with higher order intelligence. Many if then else statements
that, although could be built, are better programmed. A language that
would be very good for this would be LISP, as it is recursive and has
the ability to alter it self after it has been started. There are many
old processors out there we just need to increase our knowledge base to
incorporate innate intelligence (instinct) with higher level functions.
Just think of the code saved already by not having to tell it how to
walk!!!
James
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