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This document is comprised of case studies of two autonomous robot projects, namely Frank Scott's Hexapod Robots, and MIT's Robot Ant Colony. Each case study describes the behaviour each robot exhibits, and technical information on how this behaviour is executed including mechanical parts, digital circuitry and programming techniques. The case studies are followed by a discussion of embodied cognition, and how the above robots' actions can be explained in terms of embodied cognition. It also discusses emergent phenomenon, both in nature and artificially intelligent robots.

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"The Rodney series of robots refers to a group of three six-legged autonomous robots whose design is based upon Rodney Brooks' subsumption architecture. Rodney 3 is the most refined and recent robot. It supersedes both Rodney 1 & 2 and for this reason will be the focus of this summary. Rodney 3 is designed to operate in an environment featuring a slightly uneven surface that may be interrupted by many small obstacles and an occasional large obstacle, e.g. a pebbled track with the odd large stone or similar obstacle. The robot's task is to climb over the smaller objects, and to avoid objects that are too large to climb over. To achieve the climbing action, all six legs must be able to operate independently of each other. The robot travels forward in a straight line until a large object is encountered. To avoid the object, it must reverse a few steps, shift its direction and continue its forward motion."

Tags:Robotics, artificial, artificially, cognition, cognitive, embedded, emergence, emergent, intelligence, intelligent, processors, science, technology

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This paper discusses the different ways that the slaves proved to be autonomous during the time of slavery. It talks about the religion, fighting, dancing, singing and escape methods that the slaves turned to in order to be autonomous.

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"Clearly, slavery was an extremely brutal and unnecessary part of the past. The slaves were not simply robots who did what they were told and completely obeyed their masters; they were the exact opposite. The slaves exhibited so many different methods of maintaining their own lives and family. They did actually have enjoyable and comforting aspects of their lives."

Tags:autonomy, religion, revolt, slaves

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The following assignment is for a third year philosophy course. The topic of the assignment was the philosophy of education. The assignment attempts to answer the question: Is the point of education to make autonomous enlightened agents. I argue against this statement. Three works are looked at. They are by Kant, Neill and Egan.

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The Point of Education Education is one of the most important aspects of a society. It is an important part of the socialization process and provides children with a framework for surviving in their given society. However, there is a great deal of debate about the point of education. Is education supposed to create enlightened moral agents? Or is it just supposed to create docile individuals to work in factories and businesses? This essay will use the following statement as a starting point: The point of education is to form an autonomous moral agent equipped to act in his or her social milieu. It will be argued in this essay that the point of

Tags:education, point, comparative

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The statement that the point of education is to form an autonomous moral agent equipped to act in her or his social milieu is one that may seem surprising in a modern context concerned with skill training and professional qualifications. However, as will be seen - with reference to Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill - this view locates education at the centre of human development. In this regard, while Kant's approach is more rigorous in this regard, he also differs from Mill in seeing education as a social responsibility while Mill, to the contrary, contends that moral education is largely a consequence of family instruction.

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Education and Philosophy 1. The point of education is to form an autonomous moral agent equipped to act in his or her social milieu. The statement that the point of education is to form an autonomous moral agent equipped to act in her or his social milieu is one that may seem surprising in a modern context concerned with skill training and professional qualifications. However, as will be seen - with reference to Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill - this view locates education at the centre of human development. In this regard, while Kant's approach is more rigorous in this regard, he also differs from Mill in seeing education as

Tags:philosophy, education, kant

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Intelligent systems are becoming increasingly important in deep space missions, especially missions to Mars. This paper covers three intelligent technologies: (1) The intelligent space ship 'Deep Space One' and its autonomous navigation system; (2) The Mars global surveyor and the deep space terminal and (3) The 'Sojourner' and Rocky 7 and 8 rovers.
The paper includes illustrations.

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"Deep Space One marked the first mission of NASA's New Millennium Program which is aimed at testing highly advanced technologies for low-cost planetary missions [3]. The key component being tested by the mission was its AutoNav system. AutoNav is made up of three main tools: the Nav Main (simply Nav), the Nav Executive (NavExec) and the Nav Real-Time (NavRT). Nav and NavRT have architectures very similar to those of expert systems where decisions are based on algorithms built on sets of well defined rules. As well its decisions are supported by information gathered autonomously. In that respect it is very similar to the path planning software used in planetary rovers, which will be discussed later."

Tags:computer, nasa, robotics, viking

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This paper briefly analyses the role of the nervous system, the physiological systems involved in arousal, the physiological and psychological effects of prolonged or intense arousal and the relationship between stress and disease.

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"The CNS and PNS are further subdivided, the CNS as mentioned previously is divided into the brain the spinal cord and the PNS if further sub-divided into the somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system. The somatic nervous system is responsible our voluntary actions through our skeletal muscles whilst the autonomic nervous system is responsible for involuntary functions including internal organs, muscles and glands such as heart rate and breathing rate, etc where levels of arousal are high due to these functions. The autonomic nervous system is further sub-divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system."

Tags:arousal, stress, disease

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This paper explores how the autonomic nervous system functions. The structure of the autonomic nervous system and its impact on the performance of the body are clarified, and diagrams will be used to supplement this information.

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This paper looks at three women's work and contends that, then and now, it is still difficult to insert the many-faceted character that lies within the hearts of all women into a role quite specifically and narrowly defined by identities of faith and gender. It is of the writer's opinion that it is not possible to be a wife and a person in the fullest sense of the word, under the current social constructions, restrictions and restraints placed upon women during the time periods these works were written.

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"Gilman's fictional alter ego is convinced that there is a person behind the wallpaper straining to get out. The heroine, as a result of the cure, has so little sense of her own body she seems to confuse her sense of self with the objects around her. This is stressed early on in the tale as she thinks: "I lie here on this great immovable bed, it is nailed down, I believe and follow that pattern about by the hour." The bed is nailed down as the woman is nailed down, supposedly for her own well being. Unfortunately, no one around her can give her voice enough to state that truly it is she who wishes to escape the emotionally and intellectually confining roles of woman (and of wife, supposedly the highest function a woman can aspire to) society has encased and incarcerated her in. The man watches the woman helplessly at the tale's close as she crawls around her sick room, much more emotionally fraught than she was at the beginning of the book, peeling off the wallpaper. He has returned, hopefully to find her cured only he finds her even madder."

Tags:vexing, social, constructionsn, novella, personal, experiences, disastrous, symptoms, treat, relatively, brief, span, narrative

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The paper analyzes a photograph by Cindy Sherman, based on Raphael's famous portrait "Fornarina." It argues that while the original painting depicted women as "possessed" by men and therefore "owned" by the painter, the modern-era version de-objectifies the feminine form and gives women a sense of self-identity. The paper clarifies this point by pointing out that the model of the picture is also the photographer.

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"In the view of Kate Linker (1983), there has been of late, a shift in the way we conceive of texts. We have moved, to a degree, away from the expressionist model, "based on an expressive self and an emphatic reader, who reduplicates preconstituted meanings (1983, p. 391)." This shift further moves the reader or, in the case of the visual arts, the viewer, away from a fixed ideology which renders meaning as timeless and immutable rather than as shifting or in process. Linker (1983) suggests that in most representational visual art, there are abundant forms in which the very apparatus or content of work constitutes subjects as male, positioning women as unauthorized and illegitimate and as represented rather than representing."

Tags:Lacan, gender, Renaissance, satire, orientation

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This paper looks for a true description of the lives of Victorian women by comparing an autobiography by Mary Seacole and a novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans). The author states the two texts demonstrate that the lives of Victorian women were far more autonomous in practice than traditional Victorian fictional narratives might allow. The author points out that, ironically, Eliot's own personal life flouted conventional norms of femininity that she as an author never permitted her factious Victorian heroines.

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"The main narrative of the fictive Middlemarch tells the tale of Dorothea Brooke. Dorothea begins the novel as an extremely pious but wealthy young woman, seeking a larger purpose in life. She thinks she has found this greater purpose when she marries an elderly, pedantic clergyman named Casaubon. However, it soon becomes clear that her young passions have been diverted to purposeless ends."

Tags:definition, autobiography, novel, autonomous, traditional, fiction, norms, femininity