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How to free form the Bicore - 0 views

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The Bicore is one of the easiest BEAM circuits to free form and can be built in 10 to 60 minutes depending on your skill level. I would recommend you read the whole tutorial first, this will GREATLY lower the chance of you making a mistake.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Bicore is one of the easiest BEAM circuits to free form and can be built in 10 to 60 minutes depending on your skill level. I would recommend you read the whole tutorial first, this will GREATLY lower the chance of you making a mistake.</div>

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BEAM From the Ground Up - 0 views

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Welcome to the leaner, cleaner, BEAM From the Ground Up! This site is designed to be a useful collection of material for BEAM roboticists of all experience levels and abilities. The unifying focus here is on learning -- so this is the place to look for tu

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Welcome to the leaner, cleaner, BEAM From the Ground Up! This site is designed to be a useful collection of material for BEAM roboticists of all experience levels and abilities. The unifying focus here is on learning -- so this is the place to look for tu</div>

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Quadcores - 0 views

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4star beam electronics microcore quadcore robot

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The quadcore, or 4-Nv net, is by far the most-common variant of Nv net. You will sometimes also hear this circuit referred to as the "Microcore" -- although this term should strictly be used in reference to a "fully dressed" quadcore,

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The quadcore, or 4-Nv net, is by far the most-common variant of Nv net. You will sometimes also hear this circuit referred to as the "Microcore" -- although this term should strictly be used in reference to a "fully dressed" quadcore,</div>

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The Complete Guide for Building a Master / Slave walker - 0 views

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This is your complete guide on how to build a Master / Slave walker.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is your complete guide on how to build a Master / Slave walker.</div>

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The "Miller" walker tutorial - 0 views

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The material in this appendix is directly derived from a set of tutorial web pages authored by Andrew Miller. Andrew has since moved on to other pursuits (that pesky "work thing," don'cha know...), so in the interests of education, I "prettied" up his tre

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The material in this appendix is directly derived from a set of tutorial web pages authored by Andrew Miller. Andrew has since moved on to other pursuits (that pesky "work thing," don'cha know...), so in the interests of education, I "prettied" up his tre</div>

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Bicores - 0 views

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4star beam bicore electronics robot

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Many BEAMbots are based on bicores (2-Nv neuron "loops") in some fashion or another (and there are two main kinds of bicores -- but more on that later). Even if you're not building a bicore-based BEAMbot, studying how bicores work will help

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Many BEAMbots are based on bicores (2-Nv neuron "loops") in some fashion or another (and there are two main kinds of bicores -- but more on that later). Even if you're not building a bicore-based BEAMbot, studying how bicores work will help</div>

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1381* - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

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1381s are CMOS voltage-controlled triggers -- these "gate" a source until the voltage is above some "trip" limit, at which point it is allowed onto a third pin.
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If you can't find 1381s locally, you might have better luck finding its European cousin, the TC-54 -- for details on it, see its data sheet.
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MC34164-* - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

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34164s are undervoltage sensing circuits ("voltage supervisors") designed for use as reset controllers in portable microprocessor based systems. We use them as 3- or 5-volt triggers (here, 3 or 5 fills in the "*" of the part number above), as the heart of the Chloroplast solar engine design.
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Solar Cells - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

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Most BEAMbot designs require at least 3 volts from their solar cell(s). This means, of course, that if you buy 0.5 V cells, you need to wire together at least six of them to do the job. This may or may not be something you want to mess with; it may or may not fit with the aesthetic design you're shooting for.
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Capacitors - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

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A device used to store charge in an electrical circuit. A capacitor functions much like a battery, but charges and discharges much more efficiently
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BEAM robots tend to use capacitors in two, very different roles -- small ones in Nv neurons and solar engines (filter capacitors), and bigger ones as energy storage devices (storage capacitors).
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Photo Diodes - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

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To use a photodiode in its photoconductive mode, the photodiode is reverse-biased; the photodiode will then allow a current to flow when it is illuminated.
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Behavior-Based Control: A Brief Primer - 0 views

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Note that behaviors themselves can have state, and can form representations when networked together. Thus, unlike reactive systems, behavior-based systems are not limited in their expressive and learning capabilities.
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York Jong on 26 May 07

Behavior-based controllers consist of a collection of behaviors. Behaviors are processes or control laws that achieve and/or maintain goals.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Behavior-based controllers consist of a collection of behaviors. Behaviors are processes or control laws that achieve and/or maintain goals.</div>

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Basis Behaviors - 0 views

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The basis behavior set of a system provides elements that are not further reducible to each other and that, when composed by sequential or concurrent execution, produce the complete behavior repertoire for the system.
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Such basis behaviors are constructed, learned, or evolved from stable, robust interaction dynamics between the agent/robot and its environment, and serve as a substrate for the system's more complex behaviors.
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My work generalized the notion of basis behaviors to multi-robot interactions, and demonstrated how a small set of basis behaviors per robot can be used to demonstrate a rich repertoire of individual and group-level behaviors, including following, flocking, homing, herding, aggregation, dispersion, and formations.
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York Jong on 26 May 07

In 1991 I introduced the notion of basis behaviors, a means for facilitating principled behavior synthesis and analysis in behavior-based systems.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In 1991 I introduced the notion of basis behaviors, a means for facilitating principled behavior synthesis and analysis in behavior-based systems.</div>

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Facilitating Robot Learning - 0 views

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5star behavior-based delicious imitation imported learning multi-robot robot theory

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multi-robot learning
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learning by imitation
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uncertainty, non-stationarity, and real-time constraints
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innate structure and knowledge
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fast generalization
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social context
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complex ecological niche
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gradually
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multitude of tasks
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goals in parallel
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not optimality
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built-in structure
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structured reinforcement
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communication
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interaction with other agents
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York Jong on 26 May 07

In our own work, we pursue an experimental approach in two highly uncertain, dynamic, and high-dimensional domains: multi-robot learning, and learning by imitation. Both force us to deal with perceptual and action uncertainty, non-stationarity, and real-t

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In our own work, we pursue an experimental approach in two highly uncertain, dynamic, and high-dimensional domains: multi-robot learning, and learning by imitation. Both force us to deal with perceptual and action uncertainty, non-stationarity, and real-t</div>

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