Abstract
True multiplication of personal, human power via androids will result from the effective utilization of teams of robotic effecting mechanisms for the accomplishment of a single goal or task. This objective is of identical import for the extension of handicapped persons’ capabilities as well as for the non-handicapped. Such technology would allow a specialization and sharing of the robots between/among problems and problem-solvers (users.)We are using a single-board microcomputer as an onboard, control computer for wheeled and tracked models. These models are an experimental workshop for solving blocks movement, group navigation, and group control problems. Communication between the mobile robots and the central, coordination computer is accomplished with an FM-radio, local-area-network, which has been developed for this purpose.The central, coordination computer being used currently is an IBM-PC, but we are planning to supplement this with a 68000-based machine with one or more processing units organized around the PF474 string-matching chip. Such a computer as this promises to be effective in the execution of PROLOG, which offers an avenue for combining heuristic and factual information into a distributed, multi-robot control system.
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