Dr. Mark Humphrys

School of Computing. Dublin City University.

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DCU student

CASE3 student Paul Bunbury is missing since Thur 2 Feb 2012.
See appeals on crime.ie and garda.ie and facebook.

He is a great coder. See DCU page and boards.ie page.
He won major coding contests in 2010 and 2011.
He is author of the brilliant "FloodItWorld".
DCU can confirm that in Jan 2012 he passed all 6 modules comfortably.


Mark Humphrys - Research - Action Selection - House Robot movie


Movie demo of the House Robot problem




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.



Humans and dirt

Here is the basic behavior:



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



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:




Movie demo of W-learning in the Ant World problem




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