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Subject: Re: "Easy" way to put "AI" in realtime embedded systems?
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.192636.14633@cs.utk.edu>
From: sfp@mars.ornl.gov (Phil Spelt)
Date: 15 Apr 91 19:26:36 GMT
Reply-To: sfp@mars.epm.ornl.gov (Phil Spelt)
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Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
Summary: Do it ALL in 'C', with CLIPS
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In article <5478@mindlink.UUCP> Nick_Janow@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow) writes:
>Forth might be a good choice for adding AI to embedded systems.  Forth is
>widely used in embedded systems, and is also used in robotics and AI research.
>Using Forth for all parts of the project would save time, money, system
>resources and complexity compared with using, say, C for one part and Lisp for
>the AI.

Seems to me that one could do everything in 'C' by using CLIPS [C Language
Integrated Production System].  This system has been ported to, and compiled on,
M68020/30 processors, NCube hypercupe nodes, PC clones, Macs, and I'm sure
other machines here in our lab.  We use it for "real-time" autonomous robotic
control, including system intgerrupts to deal with moving objects in the robot's
environment.  Everything cited above for Forth is doable in 'C', and there is
a really LARGE body of users to whom one can turn for help.

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Phil Spelt, Cognitive Systems & Human Factors Group  sfp@epm.ornl.gov
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