Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!pdn!tscs!usfvax2!mician
From: mician@usfvax2.EDU (Rudy Mician)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Light Worshipers
Message-ID: <1222@usfvax2.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 89 16:24:12 GMT
Reply-To: mician@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP (Rudy Mician)
Organization: University of South Florida at Tampa
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I'm looking for some information on "light worshipers."  From what I've heard,
they are small robots equipped with a light sensor.  When placed in a room with
a light source in the center, some will move toward the light and then circle
around it at a fixed radius, some will spiral in towards the light, and (yet)
others will circle the light at a fixed radius and then suddenly rush towards
the light (knocking aside those robots that were in their path).

Do these robots use a learning algorithm?  Do they increase their
sensitivity to light if they can't find a light source right away?

Any comments will be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

     -me-