Finite State Machines
Mordechai Ben‐Ari, Francesco Mondada · 2017
Robots have embedded computers with memory that can be used to store the current state of an algorithm. Finite state machines specify the conditions under which the state of the robot changes and the actions taken when the state changes. Finite state machines are demonstrated first by Braitenberg vehicles and then by an algorithm that causes the robot to search for an object and then approach it. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.