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Parallel Algorithms for Computer Vision on the Connection Machine
(1986-11-01)
The Connection Machine is a fine-grained parallel computer having up to 64K processors. It supports both local communication among the processors, which are situated in a two-dimensional mesh, and high-bandwidth ...
Estimation of Inertial Parameters of Rigid Body Links of Manipulators
(1986-02-01)
A method of estimating the mass, the location of center of mass, and the moments of inertia of each rigid body link of a robot during general manipulator movement is presented. The algorithm is derived from the ...
A Simple Motion Planning Algorithm for General Robot Manipulators
(1986-06-01)
This paper presents a simple and efficient algorithm, using configuration space, to plan collision-free motions for general manipulators. We describe an implementation of the algorithm for manipulators made up of ...
GROK Doc: An Image Display Tool
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1986-04-14)
The image display tool GROK provides a facility for displaying images on the black-and-white screen of a Symbolics 3600 monitor. It allows display of images and their manipulation through a special window it manages. Images ...
Critical Analysis of Programming in Societies of Behaviors
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1986-12)
Programming in societies of behavior-agents is emerging as a promising method for creating mobile robot control systems that are responsive both to internal priorities for action and to external world constraints. It is ...
Hermeneutics: From Textual Explication to Computer Understanding?
(1986-05-01)
Hermeneutics, a branch of continental European philosophy concerned with human understanding and the interpretation of written texts, offers insights that may contribute to the understanding of meaning, translation, ...
Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Linear Inequalities
(1986-05-01)
Time and space are sufficiently similar to warrant in certain cases a common representation in AI problem-solving systems. What is represented is often the constraints that hold between objects, and a concern is the ...
Classifying Objects from Visual Information
(1986-06-01)
Consider a world of 'objects.' Our goal is to place these objects into categories that are useful to the observer using sensory data. One criterion for utility is that the categories allow the observer to infer the ...
Program Translation via Abstraction and Reimplementation
(1986-12-01)
Essentially all program translators (both source-to-source translators and compilers) operate via transliteration and refinement. This approach is fundamentally limited in the quality of the output it can produce. In ...
Visual Attention in Brains and Computers
(1986-09-01)
Existing computer programs designed to perform visual recognition of objects suffer from a basic weakness: the inability to spotlight regions in the image that potentially correspond to objects of interest. The brain's ...