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Hi Frank,
Yes I know Ed Spike.  I don't think he does the robotics club anymore.  At least as
far as I know.  He was a lab instructor for a couple of courses I have taken.  My
friend and I want to start a club though, depending on if we have time.  Where are
you located?  Right now I'm working for a company in Ottawa.

I haven't really done any AI.  The company I work for does, but I haven't gotten
much exposure to it.  It is an area of interest, but that's about it.  The company I
work for is really big on behaviour based robotics, and take high interest in the
work of Rodney Brooks at MIT.  I am probably as new or newer with AI as you are.

Well, gotta run...

Ian

Frank wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>     I've worked a little with a few different types of  home built robots
> including wheeled, flying, walking and swimming. I build my own circuits mainly,
> that way I can kinda design how I want it to work and I don't end up paying for
> features that I'm not really going to use. Cheap I guess is the best way to put
> it.
>     Your server shows U of W. Do you know Ed Spike? He heads up (or at least
> used to) a robotics club in the University. If he and the club are still around
> and active, let me know as I would like to come to a few of the meetings.
>     I see you are doing some AI. Another person on this list (say Hi John) was
> expressing some interest in this field. Since both John and I (well.. mainly me)
> are newbies at this, perhaps we can get a discussion going on subsumption
> architecture and weighting rules.
>     I still can't quite wrap my head around feeding the result back into the
> input in order to minimize the output differential. I know it sort of like using
> a rotor on a TV antenna (you turn the dial by the sofa and the aerial moves
> though a feedback loop for those of you who grew up with cable) but I really
> don't fully understand the propagation technique. Hints? Clues? Books I should
> read that can be understood by a non-engineer?
>
> appreciate all comments,
>
> frank
>
> "D. Ian MacLennan" wrote:
>
> > What type of robots have you developed?  I haven't built anything myself,
> > but I am interested in it and hope to build next term.  I am currently
> > working for a company that specializes in autonomous robotics and artificial
> > intelligence.  I'd be interested to hear what kind of projects you have
> > done.
> >
> > Have you used prebuilt microprocessor/controller circuits or do you make
> > your own circuit?  i.e. do you buy a single board computer or do you make
> > them?
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >