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  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Final project November 23, 2024 - 2:57pm
    Background:   I have always been captivated by electronic pets, particularly iDog, because of the unique way they bring joy and entertainment to people’s lives. These devices were not just toys; they were interactive companions that...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 13 November 23, 2024 - 2:56pm
    Food for thought   While the potential for robots to help people is vast, some people believes that instead of creating technology that replaces human labor, we should focus on training people as providers of those services. With the...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 12 November 23, 2024 - 2:36pm
    Unit 12 Learning and Robots   Unit 12 made a strong impression on me, as it closely relates to my previous experience in an AI course. During that course, I worked on supervised learning and specifically applied algorithms like Naive Bayes....
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 11 November 23, 2024 - 2:28pm
    Unit 11 Navigation and Group Robotics   Food for thought    Ants are tremendously effective at dead reckoning, finding their way in the vast open spaces of the desert through odometry. They seem to be much better at it than...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 10 November 23, 2024 - 1:08pm
    Unit 10 Unexpected Outcomes and Emergent Behavior   Food for thought    Besides wall-following, or following (servoing to some target), which is a natural behaviour to produce via emergence, can you think of others you might want...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 9 November 23, 2024 - 12:43pm
    Unit 9 Robot Control 5 — Coordination    Food for thought    Does it ever happen to you that you can't decide between two options?What do you do? Theories from cognitive science and neuro-sciences say that human...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 8 November 23, 2024 - 12:31pm
    Unit 8 Hybrid and behavior-based control   Food for thought   Is there an alternative to hybrid systems, or is that all there is in terms of intelligent, real-time robot behavior? Can you think of another way that a robot can be able...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang added a new discussion topic Yiming's Final Project Proposal November 12, 2024 - 12:31pm
    The Interactive Robotic Dog is a compact and engaging robotics project that detects sound signals, responds dynamically, and performs simple movements. Inspired by a pet dog’s behavior, it offers users a fun and intuitive way to explore...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 7 November 11, 2024 - 4:19pm
    Unit 7 explores two robotic control strategies: deliberative control and reactive control. Chapter 13 focuses on deliberative control, where robots rely on detailed planning before acting. It introduces the SPA model (Sensing, Planning, Action),...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 5&6 November 9, 2024 - 3:17pm
    Chapter 10 explains feedback and loop control, focusing on how closed-loop systems use feedback to fix errors and stay stable. It introduces error as the difference between the desired state and current state and shows how it helps adjust the...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 3 & 4 October 14, 2024 - 3:38pm
    The content of Unit 3 is relatively brief. It builds on the previous two units including topics related to robot effectors and actuators. Examples like remote surgery and robotic arms are provided to enhance our understanding of the subject....
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 1 & 2 October 2, 2024 - 2:23pm
    Chapter 1 introduces the definition of robots, describing them as “autonomous systems that exist in the physical world, can sense their environment, and act upon it to achieve specific goals.” It then outlines the fundamental properties...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 0 October 2, 2024 - 1:08pm
    Unit 0   Where to find resources   Sparkfun Inventor’s Kit: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sparkfun-inventors-kit-experiment-guide---v41   The landing discussions:...
  • Yiming Zang
    Yiming Zang created a wiki page Yiming's wiki page for COMP 444 September 1, 2024 - 2:10pm
    Hi everyone, my name is Yiming Zang, this will serve as my weblog for COMP 444, I will post my progress here throughout the course. I am very excited to share my experiences with you all.