This meeting we came back with some answers to the previous weeks questions. For what is given we decided that:

  1) Each Robot cannot communicate.
  2) Each Robot has a 360 degree view.
  3) Robots can differentiate between other robots
  4) Each Robot will have the same programming.
  5) Each Robot is only concerned with short ranger vision. The robot does not anticipate collision until it is just about to occur.

The Reason for our selection of these answers is as follows: We hope create a robot that can be duplicated numerous times and placed in an unknown environment and complete a task which for now is to get to a targeted position colliding with objects and resolving collisions. The diagrams below are a few examples of what we are considering doing.


We still have not found a way to detect collision. In Java there is a thing called pixel grabber but we want to use methods that could possibly be applied in with real robots. Further investigation is still required.

While talking with a UTD neuroscience undergraduate, Gillian Goddard she mentioned that neurons have things called receptive fields that detect interaction between neurons. Were not sure how we can use this information but we are still looking into it.

We adjourned the meeting agreeing to spend time thinking about the composition of what the programming structure will look like as well as what options should be provided for the user.