Countering murphys law: the use of anticipation and improvisation via an episodic memory in support of intelligent robot behavior

Recently in robotics, substantial efforts have been invested on critical applications such as military, nursing, and search-and-rescue. These applications are critical in a sense that the robots may directly deal with human lives in life-or-death situations, and they are therefore required to make h...

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Main Author: Endo, Yoichiro
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26466