Polly: a vision-based artificial agent

Ian Horswill

Polly: a vision-based artificial agent

Ian Horswill^*

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Computer Science

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Abstract

In this paper I will describe Polly, a low cost vision-based robot that gives primitive tours. The system is very simple, robust and efficient, and runs on a hardware platform which could be duplicated for less than $10K US. The system was built to explore how knowledge about the structure the environment can be used in a principled way to simplify both visual and motor processing. I will argue that very simple and efficient visual mechanisms can often be used to solve real problems in real (unmodified) environments in a principled manner. I will give an overview of the robot, discuss the properties of its environment, show how they can be used to simplify the design of the system, and discuss what lessons can drawn for the design of other systems.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Publisher	Publ by AAAI
Pages	824-829
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0262510715
State	Published - Dec 1 1993
Event	Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Washington, DC, USA Duration: Jul 11 1993 → Jul 15 1993

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Name	Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Other	Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
City	Washington, DC, USA
Period	7/11/93 → 7/15/93

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Artificial Intelligence

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