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For Rich

I noticed that you had a nice script for Navigation with the Sonars and IRs.

Why not go a step further and make it a SMART Navigation system?

You could do that by two more steps. (use confidence and Random number selection)

First you set confidence levels from zero to three, or even as high as zero to 15.

Next you store the previous move. And use it to know if you are moving in the correct direction.

After that you have done most of it, you check the confidence level for the move you are about to make. If it is High, you make the move. If it is low, you use a random number to select a different move and go through the whole process again.

After trial and error, the robot becomes more intelligent after each move. Then he will KNOW by Learning experiences which way to go.

I have never gotten this to work 100%, but it is possible. I am just not a great programmer. But , you seem to be good enough to pull this off.

I would love to see this machine become more intelligent and actually have the capabilities to Learn.


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#1  

Watch this space;)

in the topic with r2d2 and the ping sweep avoidance I've mentioned advanced avoidance, I have many ideas but currently lack the time to put pen to paper (or fingers to keys).

advanced avoidance and scanning will be on its was soon though:)

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#3  

Yes, this topic was very interesting and could continue forever, currently lack free time enough, but always be ready to give my opinion in navigation. I think the concept that learning MovieMaker descrive navigation sounds very smart, and I think it is a step which is high in artificial intelligence: artificial intelligence + learning intelligence + evolutionary intelligence. Do not think it's easy to achieve, but if anyone can get it, this is Rich. It could also stored the information learned to reverse the movement and return to the original starting place. or divide the path into sectors to take shortcuts to other places. I think the code would be a kind of variables $ altering progress and by the code, while taking decisions on exploration.:)

#4  

I see cooperative achievements coming soon;)

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#5  

That's my plan so I hope so:) The way I see it is if I can help others understand how to put a script together then we will soon have a whole lot more awesome scripts that make out robots so much better than they already are (which is difficult as they are already awesome).

#6  

We all have different talents that we are really good at so when we put them together it will be a force to be reckoned with! From a process and organization standpoint I can arrange processes that interact but I'm still new to the scripting.

#7  

@Rich I've been reading the threads for a few weeks now and I have to tell you that I too feel you are a very talented programmer. So it is my unfortunate responsibility to inform you that, if you create Skynet I will have to send some cheesy 80's actor back from thousands of years ago, where the future has already occurred, to put you down.

LOL, I'm just kidding of course but I can tell you have a passion an aptitude for this. I can't wait to get some ezb exp to be able to chat with you more. And speaking of communications, it seems that there are only a handful of people really active in the forums. If I had to guess I'd say it's probably only about 3%-5% of ezb owners (And I feel that to be a kind estimate). I'm guessing at that number based on my observation of the forum for about 3 weeks and the assumption that there are at least 300 ezb owners. I don't know how many ezbs have been sold but I know they've been around for a few years.

I think this looks like an amazing product vs all of the other stuff out there and it's cheaper than alot of stuff that appears to be crap floating around out there. I'm just amazed that this forum isn't a little more active. I see you guys banding together here for a common goal and think, "There, that's it. That's exactly how the world is supposed to work." Why are there not more players in the game posting here? Is there another site that people are more active at? Like a hobbyist robotics site or something? Like the Droid Forums of robotics?

I haven't bought my hardware yet. I've been researching robotics pretty heavily for about 5 weeks now so I'm confident enough to dive in. It's just time and money now. I've opened ARC a couple of times and from a programming standpoint it seems pretty straight forward. But I'm looking forward to getting an ez complete and can't wait to get some experience with ezb and robotics so I will be a little more qualified to speak.

Keep it up guys. I hope to one day soon join your ranks.

#8  

I post more and ask more questions when I am actually working on a project. My wife told me with no uncertainty "NO MORE ROBOTS." So, I have to live with what I have now. But, I would like to see my robots develop more A.I.

:)