Evolution of machine intelligence for mobile robots
Gunji Sugimoto · Advanced Robotics · 1991
Active research and development is carried out for various mobile robots or robotic vehicles. This paper tries to find a new principle of the evolution of machine intelligence for robotic vehicles. The machine intelligence of robotic vehicles is the integrated ability composed of sensors, actuators, and computers, which produces the travel versatility of robots. Therefore, the relation between the performances of sensors, actuators, and computers, and the produced travel versatility was examined on 18 previously reported wheeled robotic vehicles with reference to the study on the evolution of vertebrate brains. The obtained hypothetical principles are as follows. Computer power varies in proportion to the summation of both rates of information input from sensors and information output to actuators for robots with the same grade of travel versatility. Robotic vehicles with a high grade of travel versatility have greater computer power than those with a low grade.