This exciting study explores the novel insight, based on well-established ethological principles, that animals, humans, and autonomous robots can all be analyzed as multi-task autonomous control systems.Intelligence takes many forms. This exciting study explores the novel insight, based on well-established ethological principles, that animals, humans, and autonomous robots can all be analyzed as multi-task autonomous control systems. Biological adaptive systems, the authors argue, can in fact provide a better understanding of intelligence and rationality than that provided by traditional AI.In this technically sophisticated, clearly written investigation of robot-animal analogies, McFarland and Bösser show that a bee's accuracy in navigating on a cloudy day and a moth's simple but effective hearing mechanisms have as much to teach us about intelligent behavior as human models. In defining intelligent behavior, what matters is the behavioral outcome, not the nature of the mechanism by which the outcome is achieved. Similarly, in designing robots capable of intelligent behavior, what matters is the behavioral outcome.McFarland and Bösser address the problem of how to assess the consequences of robot behavior in a way that is meaningful in terms of the robot's intended role, comparing animal and robot in relation to rational behavior, goal seeking, task accomplishment, learning, and other important theoretical issues.

Intelligent Behavior in Animals and Robots (Complex Adaptive Systems)

Computers & Technology

Bösser, Tom

McFarland, David J.

Computer Science

MIT Press]

This comprehensive text provides a balanced and integrated introductory treatment of animal behaviour for students of biology and psychology. The book explores evolutionary explanations for behaviour patterns in animals, provides an in-depth discussion of the mechanisms of behaviour and examines complex behaviour patterns, e.g. learning processes, communication and emotion

Animal Behaviour

Science & Math

Evolution

Longman Pub. Group

<p>Luger - the very word conjures up visions of a stalemate in the trenches in 19117, or a guerrilla action with captured weapons by French Resistance fighters in Fortress Europe or a silenced "hit" in the alleys of Istanbul, Port Said or Budapest as communism and democracy locked horns in the Cold War which followed the fall of the Third Reich, The Luger has a mystique unequaled by that of any other handgun. Contents: Historical Background; Principal Features; Constituent Parts; Manipulation and Action; Cleaning; Dismantling and Assembling; Further Dismantling and Assembling; Tools and Their Uses; Final Remarks; Dimensions and Efficiency; Parabellums of the World; Tables I, II, &amp; III.</p>

The P-08 Parabellum Luger Automatic Pistol

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Desert Pubns

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