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I'm looking for the LISP code and supporting files that make up the m68HC11
port of Rodney Brooks' subsumption architecture that was used to program
SQUIRT.  The little robot that hides in the shadows and tends to gravitate
to the center of activity when all is quiet.

SQUIRT was discussed in:

AIM-1120 (MIT AI Lab)
Anita M. Flynn, Rodney A. Brooks, William M. Wells III, and David S.
Barrett, `` SQUIRT: The Protypical Mobile Robot for Autonomous Graduate
Students,'' July 1989. 31 pgs. (AD-A212337).

This paper describes an exercise in building a complete robot aimed at being
as small as possible but using off-the-shelf components exclusively.  The
result is an autonomous mobile robot slightly larger thaan one cubic inch
which incorporates sinsing, actuation, onboard computation, and onboard
power supplies.  Nicknamed Squirt, this robots acts as a ``bug,'' hiding in
dark corners and venturing out in the direction of last heard noises, only
moving after the noises are long gone.


There is also a 1986 paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation by Brooks
that introduced subsumption architectures.  I have that article and the SQUIRT
one with the LISP code attached, but I want to know if anything else has been
developed that would be useful.

Anyone?
James


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