Browsing AI Technical Reports (1964 - 2004) by Title
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MIT Scheme Reference Manual
(1991-01-01)MIT Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language that runs on many popular workstations. The MIT Scheme Reference Manual describes the special forms, procedures, and datatypes provided by the ... -
A Model for Deliberation, Action, and Introspection
(1980-05-01)This thesis investigates the problem of controlling or directing the reasoning and actions of a computer program. The basic approach explored is to view reasoning as a species of action, so that a program might apply ... -
Model Selection for Solving Kinematics Problems
(1990-09-01)There has been much interest in the area of model-based reasoning within the Artificial Intelligence community, particularly in its application to diagnosis and troubleshooting. The core issue in this thesis, simply ... -
Model-Based Troubleshooting of Digital Systems
(1988-08-01)This thesis describes a methodology, a representation, and an implemented program for troubleshooting digital circuit boards at roughly the level of expertise one might expect in a human novice. Existing methods for ... -
Modeling Robot Dynamic Performance for Endpoint Force Control
(1988-09-01)This research aims to understand the fundamental dynamic behavior of servo-controlled machinery in response to various types of sensory feedback. As an example of such a system, we study robot force control, a scheme ... -
Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Robot-Soil Interactions
(2001-09-01)This thesis presents the development of hardware, theory, and experimental methods to enable a robotic manipulator arm to interact with soils and estimate soil properties from interaction forces. Unlike the majority of ... -
Modelling the Somantic Electrical Response of Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons
(1989-09-01)A modeling study of hippocampal pyramidal neurons is described. This study is based on simulations using HIPPO, a program which simulates the somatic electrical activity of these cells. HIPPO is based on a) descriptions ... -
A Modern Differential Geometric Approach to Shape from Shading
(1989-06-01)How the visual system extracts shape information from a single grey-level image can be approached by examining how the information about shape is contained in the image. This technical report considers the characteristic ... -
Motion Planning with Six Degrees of Freedom
(1984-05-01)The motion planning problem is of central importance to the fields of robotics, spatial planning, and automated design. In robotics we are interested in the automatic synthesis of robot motions, given high-level ... -
Motor Control and Learning by the State Space Model
(1977-09-01)A model is presented that deals with problems of motor control, motor learning, and sensorimotor integration. The equations of motion for a limb are parameterized and used in conjunction with a quantized, multi-dimensional ... -
Multiple Mode Vibration Suppression in Controlled Flexible Systems
(1991-05-01)Prior research has led to the development of input command shapers that can reduce residual vibration in single- or multiple-mode flexible systems. We present a method for the development of multiple-mode shapers which ... -
A Multiple-Context Equality-Based Reasoning System
(1983-04-01)Expert systems are too slow. This work attacks that problem by speeding up a useful system component that remembers facts and tracks down simple consequences. The redesigned component can assimilate new facts more ... -
Multisensor Modeling Underwater with Uncertain Information
(1988-07-01)This thesis develops an approach to the construction of multidimensional stochastic models for intelligent systems exploring an underwater environment. It describes methods for building models by a three- dimensional ... -
Multistep Methods for Integrating the Solar System
(1988-07-01)High order multistep methods, run at constant stepsize, are very effective for integrating the Newtonian solar system for extended periods of time. I have studied the stability and error growth of these methods when ... -
Naive Physics, Event Perception, Lexical Semantics, and Language Acquisition
(1993-04-01)This thesis proposes a computational model of how children may come to learn the meanings of words in their native language. The proposed model is divided into two separate components. One component produces semantic ... -
The Named-State Register File
(1993-08-01)This thesis introduces the Named-State Register File, a fine-grain, fully-associative register file. The NSF allows fast context switching between concurrent threads as well as efficient sequential program performance. ... -
Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem Solving System
(1964-09-01)The STUDENT problem solving system, programmed in LISP, accepts as input a comfortable but restricted subset of English which can express a wide variety of algebra story problems. STUDENT finds the solution to a large ... -
Natural Object Categorization
(1987-11-01)This thesis addresses the problem of categorizing natural objects. To provide a criteria for categorization we propose that the purpose of a categorization is to support the inference of unobserved properties of objects ... -
New Progress in Artificial Intelligence
(1974-09-01)This report concentrates on progress during the last two years at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Topics covered include the representation of knowledge, understanding English, learning and debugging, ... -
Noise Reduction Using Low Weight and Constant Weight Coding Techniques
(1990-05-01)Signalling off-chip requires significant current. As a result, a chip's power-supply current changes drastically during certain output-bus transitions. These current fluctuations cause a voltage drop between the chip ...
