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                     CSGO Research Seminar
	
CSGO, the Computer Science Graduate Organization, sponsors seminars to bring 
together students and researchers in the areas of Computer Science and 
Engineering, introducing the students to the researchers and providing a 
chance for the researchers to get to know the students.

There will be one seminar every week of approximately one hour duration 
followed by a question and answer session.
		  
Next week the seminar will be:


		BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED CONTROL OF ROBOTS

		Speaker : Dr. George A. Bekey
			  Professor of Computer Science
			  USC Computer Science Department

The control of  robots is generally performed by methods derived from control
theory,  which are well suited to control of linear systems, but may not
perform well with highly complex, nonlinear systems, capable of locomotion as
well as manipulation. In this talk we will present an alternate approach to
control of robotic systems which is based on biological models. We will begin
by presenting the Phony Pony, a quadruped walking machine designed and built
at USC some 25 years ago. Then we will discuss the USC-Belgrade robot hand
(controlled by an expert system), the Beer artificial cockroach (controlled
by a neural network),  and some of Brooks' behavior based machines . Finally,
we will introduce the walking machines designed by Tony Lewis at USC and
discuss the application of genetic algorithms to enabling one of these robots
to learn to walk.


		Date:  Tuesday, 8/9/92
		Time:  10:00 - 11:00
		Place: SAL 324
		Host:  CSGO