Monday, December 2, 2019

A.s.a. H.'s subconscious/unconscious

What is the subconscious (unconscious)? Everything that isn't part of current "consciousness?" Outside of short term memory?
1. Cases/patterns that are not currently activated?
2. Subsymbolic patterns?
3. reflexes?
4. pre and post processors?
5. A.s.a. H.'s core algorithms (for learning, extrapolating, interpolating, etc.)?

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Use of simulators

It is advisable to use simulators to do as much of the robotics development work as possible. John Blankenship had a nice example in the second issue of Servo Magazine this year. (Developing Robotic Behaviors)