Mark Humphrys - Research - Action Selection - House Robot movie

Movie demo of the House Robot problem

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Introduction

See full description of the House Robot problem. The creature investigates all humans, following strangers and avoiding getting in the way of family. When not occupied it defaults to a hoover.

This is a demonstration of the artificial world itself, with a hand-coded creature. See elsewhere for demonstration of a W-learning creature.

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Humans and dirt

Here is the basic behavior:

"House Robot" movie, 200 steps.
See WMV:

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Humans, dirt and smoke

We complicate things by making the robot a smoke detector and investigator as well.

Here it is too busy stamping out fire to attend to anything else:

"Fire fighter" movie, 200 steps.
See WMV:

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Movie demo of W-learning in the Ant World problem

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