Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals

Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:27PM (#33633701)

> But we had made it so much more complicated because we couldn’t see the few simple rules that each of them were following.

I hope you don't mean "Boids" and the three-four simple rules, because that's just an approximation of a swarm behavior made for artistic purposes - i.e. the result is supposed to pass as a flock of birds or a school of fish to casual onlookers (e.g. gamers, audience of a movie), and not to be accurate to the real thing.

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Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by robotresearcher on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:11PM (#33634467)

Here's a project from 1998 where a Boids-like model was used for engineering purposes. A robot controller was designed to guide a simulated flock to a goal on the edge of a circular arena. The robot worked on real flocking ducks too, on the first try. The Boids sim was similar enough to the birds' behavior in this very limited domain to be used as an engineering sim.

'Robot Sheepdog' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefXVXscNDM

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Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by ablob on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:15AM (#33635923)

Even if it were "Boids", I don't think it worsens the argument by a lot. The essence of the statement is that complex behavior can emerge from a simple ruleset.

I'd like to add, that while individual behavior is difficult to predict, a general motion prediction can be much easier. (Think shepherds, for example)

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