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Message #02661
To: Jakub Pietracha whraven@free.com.pl
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:36:19 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM environment.
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Chiu
> Jakub Pietracha wrote:
>
> Last night I had a wision: a BEAM "plant" and BEAM bots feeding on it. The
> BEAM "plant" - something resambling the Green Thumb equiped with big solar
> cels and capacitors produces and stores power and diferent "species" of BEAM
> robos feed on it. Finding the plant is quite easily solvable (perhaps an IR
> LED on the "plant" and BEAM robots equiped with the instinct of IR-throphizm
> instead of photo-thropizm) but geting the power from the "plant" to the
> robot's is the problem. I thought of some kind of electrical contacts but the
> "plant" must serve several types of bots. Does anyone have any sugestions on
> solving the problem?
>
> The construction of the robot must be also modified:
> - it has to store more power (maby an acumulator instead of a capacitor, or
> radical cut on the power consumption);
> - it can't just stay near the plant and just feed (maybe some kind of explore
> and hunger instincts). The hunger instinct could be a voltage detector - when
> the voltage drops below some point the hunger instinct overrides the explore
> instinct.
>
> This type of environment could be an interesting place to observe. Just
> imagine a turbot cravling twards the plant and "kiling" other bots just to get
> "food".
>
> Jakub Pietracha
> whraven@free.com.pl
>
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Chiu-Yuan Fang
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