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From: ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Robots and neural nets?
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Date: 5 Jun 90 16:40:54 GMT
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In article <2639@skye.ed.ac.uk> ruth@aiai.UUCP (Ruth Aylett) writes:
>But assuming it is an appropriate place, does anyone have any references
>to the use of neural nets in robotics? Is there any practical work in
>the area using this approach? Any references gratefully received.

I have heard of the ALVINN project at Carnegie Mellon.  It used
backpropagation training on simulated roads with visual and laser
rangefinder inputs, and after extenisve learning it had
some real-world navigational ability in the NavLab's truck they
use for testing autonomous navigation systems.

I'm sure someone from CMU can add to what I have said (I only read the
technical report).

-Thomas Edwards
 Looking for an AI/Robotics/Neural Net style Ph.D. program