Subject: Re: Robot intelligence
From: kekoa@pixel.Stanford.EDU (Kekoa Proudfoot)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:15:31 GMT

hancu <hancu@scf-fs.usc.edu> wrote:
>> It's all a matter of framing it in the correct reward/punishment context.
>> E.g., if you want it to learn its environment, punish it for not running
>> into things, reward it for actively avoiding obstacles (which opens the 
>> question: How're you mapping the environment, but...)
>
>I just got my mindstorms kit a week ago, and I was thinking of doing this
>sort of thing using a stack or some other data type in c++... Does the 
>rcx have enough memory to make this possible?

If you use GCC to program your RCX, you have somewhere around 28K, which is
enough memory for a lot of things.

If you use anything based on the standard firmware, you have 32 registers
and no way of doing indirect addressing.  Things will be very difficult.

-Kekoa
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