Braitenberg Creatures (1991)
| Venue: | MIT Media Lab |
| Citations: | 7 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Hogg91braitenbergcreatures,
author = {David W. Hogg and Fred Martin and Mitchel Resnick},
title = {Braitenberg Creatures},
journal = {MIT Media Lab},
year = {1991},
volume = {13}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes 12 autonomous "creatures" built with Electronic Bricks. Electronic Bricks are specially-modified lego bricks with simple electronic circuits inside. Although each Electronic Brick is quite simple, the bricks can be combined to form robotic creatures with interesting and complex behaviors, similar to the fictional machines described in Valentino Braitenberg's book Vehicles (1984). Introduction This paper describes a collection of artificial "creatures" made from lego bricks. The creatures were inspired by Valentino Braitenberg's book Vehicles (1984). In Vehicles, Braitenberg describes a set of thought experiments in which increasingly complex vehicles are built from simple mechanical and electronic components. Each of these imaginary vehicles in some way mimics intelligent behavior, and each one is given a name that corresponds to the behavior it imitates: "Fear," "Love," "Values," "Logic," etc. Braitenberg uses these thought experiments to explore psychological id...
Keyphrases
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