Ada: constructing a synthetic organism

Author

Eng, Kynan ; Babler, Andreas ; Bernardet, Ulysses ; Blanchard, Mark ; Briska, Adam ; Conradt, Jörg ; Costa, Marcio ; Delbruck, Tobi ; Douglas, Rodney J. ; Hepp, Klaus ; Klein, David ; Manzolli, Jonatas ; Mintz, Matti ; Netter, Thomas ; Roth, Fabian ; Ruti

Author_Institution

Inst. of Neuroinformatics, Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1808

Abstract

Despite immense progress in neuroscience, we remain restricted in our ability to construct autonomous behaving robots that match the competence of even simple animals. The barriers to the realisation of this goal include: the lack of knowledge of system integration issues, engineering limitations and organisational constraints common to many research laboratories. In this paper we describe our approach to addressing these issues by constructing an artificial organism within the framework of the Ada project - a large-scale public exhibit for the Swiss Expo.02 national exhibition.

Keywords

artificial life; interactive systems; mobile robots; project engineering; Ada project; artificial organism; autonomous robots; interactive systems; large-scale behavioural integration; mobile robots; service robot; Animals; Knowledge engineering; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Neuroscience; Orbital robotics; Organisms; Robots; Space technology; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2002. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7398-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRDS.2002.1044018

Filename

1044018