Quick question here from a Forth AI practitioner:

If we have an off-the-shelf AI Mind in Win32Forth at

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth

and robotic control software in RoboForth at

http://www.strobotics.com/roboforth.htm

can the AI Mind send signals for the RoboForth
control software to execute in the real world,
or must both elements of the system (the AI Mind
and the AI Motorium) be written in the same
dialect of Forth? In other words, would I
have to rewrite Mind.Forth AI in RoboForth, or
persuade the author of RoboForth to recode the
control routines in Win32Forth or 64-bit iForth?

I ask this question because just today I found

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth/message/14466

as a message from the author of RoboForth at

http://www.strobotics.com

which I am adding to my list of robot vendors:

http://www.dontronics.com

http://www.hansonrobotics.com

http://www.strobotics.com

http://www.trendrobotics.com

http://www.trossenrobotics.com

http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/robots

In closing, the theory of mind implemented in

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt

selects and executes a motor proposal stored
in motor memory not by sending a single signal
to the motor engram, but by letting pro and con
signals cause the motor release "capacitor"
to wax and wane in strength below a discharge
threshold. Only if the AI Mind thinks positively
and prolongedly about a motor option engram,
does the AI-Minded robot execute the action.
But first the AI Forthmind needs the sort of
motor output software that RoboForth provides.

TIA (thanks in advance/total information awareness)

Arthur
--http://cyborg.blogspot.com

Quick question here from a Forth AI practitioner:

If we have an off-the-shelf AI Mind in Win32Forth at

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth

and robotic control software in RoboForth at

http://www.strobotics.com/roboforth.htm

can the AI Mind send signals for the RoboForth
control software to execute in the real world,
or must both elements of the system (the AI Mind
and the AI Motorium) be written in the same
dialect of Forth? In other words, would I
have to rewrite Mind.Forth AI in RoboForth, or
persuade the author of RoboForth to recode the
control routines in Win32Forth or 64-bit iForth?

Forthminder wrote:
Quick question here from a Forth AI practitioner:

If we have an off-the-shelf AI Mind in Win32Forth at

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth

and robotic control software in RoboForth at

http://www.strobotics.com/roboforth.htm

can the AI Mind send signals for the RoboForth
control software to execute in the real world,
or must both elements of the system (the AI Mind
and the AI Motorium) be written in the same
dialect of Forth? In other words, would I
have to rewrite Mind.Forth AI in RoboForth, or
persuade the author of RoboForth to recode the
control routines in Win32Forth or 64-bit iForth?

In a former life, I controlled a robot made and programmed in Forth by
IBM with a Z-80 running 8080 Forth. The interconnect was a serial port
because that's what IBM supplied.

You will find interesting control hardware with a Forth flavor athttp://www.newmicros.com/

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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