Artificial intelligence research has foundered on the issue of representation. When intelligence
is approached in an incremental manner, with strict reliance on interfacing to the real …

Most animals have significant behavioral expertise built in without having to explicitly learn it
all from scratch. This expertise is a product of evolution of the organism; it can be viewed as …

Reconstructive tomography is compared with conventional focal plane tomography. Methods
of reconstruction-back projection, iterative reconstruction and analytic reconstruction-are …

… Brooks turned the field of AI on its head by introducing the behavior-based approach to …
recent humanoid robots such as Brooks' Cog. This book represents Brooks' initial formulation of …

The new approaches that have been developed recently for artificial intelligence (AI) arose
from work with mobile robots. This chapter outlines the context within which this work arose …

There is an alternative route to Artificial Intelligence that diverges from the directions pursued
under that banner for the last thirty some years. The traditional approach has emphasized …

We describe model-based vision systems in terms of four components: models, prediction of
image features, description of image features, and interpretation which relates image …

In order to build autonomous robots that can carry out useful work in unstructured environments
new approaches have been developed to building intelligent systems. The relationship …

Free space is represented as a union of (possibly overlapping) generalized cones. An
algorithm is presented which efficiently finds good collision-free paths for convex polygonal …

As a polychromatic X-ray beam passes through matter, low energy photons are preferentially
absorbed, and the (logarithmic) attenuation is no longer a linear function of absorber …