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Message #05511
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Ian Bernstein ian@beam-online.com
Date: Sunday, 1 August 1999 2:56
Subject: BEAM and CPU's
>Hi again
>
>After giving this some more thought.... From what I've seen BEAM is very
>good for creating simple robots that can say, walk and back up when it
>bumps an object. One of these can be easily put together by almost anyone
>and it gives a certain 'adaptive' behavior. It also seems that as soon as
>you want to add multiple sensors and give the bot more gaits the circuit
>just grows dramatically and becomes very complex. I haven't even seem
>Mark attempt very many complex bots with lots of sensors (this could
>change with Roswell, he has PIR, IR, Light.....). If the basic circuit
>gives the adaptive behavior then why attempt to create a huge complex
>circuit to handle the sensors. Why not just use a cpu. The only advantage
>I can see would be the cost. All you would need is a BS1 and they are
>really easy to program.
>
>I'm up to the challenge and just wanted to see what you guys thought
>before I start. Also how many motors should I use, 4? And I was thinking
>of using servos but leave the pot in there and hook it to the stamp so it
>could tell roughly where the motor is.
>
>Laterz
>
>
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>
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