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Distributive Intelligence with Robots

ME 94: Spring 2000

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Younger Brother
Place two RCX's on the table - when you move one by hand, the other will move in the same fashion (ie. slow, fast, forward, back, left, right). Click here for more...

Gophers
Four RCX's are planted in four different locations continually collecting light data. The mother gopher drives by.... Click here for more...

Whistling Brothers
Place five RCX's down on the table. Hit run and the leftmost one should sing 220Hz, the next 440Hz, etc. Take the RCX's and rearrange them.... Click here for more...

Travel by Beacon
Set four RCX's down on the table. Each RCX has a single message (such as "wait 30 seconds", "turn around", "turn right", ...). The mothership comes by.... Click here for more...

Wandering Cyclops
Place five RCX's on the table along with a number of obstacles. All RCX's must get the light intensity information back from Com Central. Click here for more...


Phillip Lau, Brendon Lewis, Thierry Dreyfus

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9950741

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).