Shakey the Robot

Abstract

From 1960 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI conducted research on a mobile robot system nicknamed "Shakey." Endowed with a limited ability to perceive and model its environment, Shakey could perform tasks that required planning, route finding, and the rearranging of simple objects. Although the Shakey project led to numerous advances in AI techniques, many of which were reported in the literature, much specific in formation that might be useful in current robotics research appears only in a series of relatively inaccessible SRI technical reports. Our purpose here, consequently, is to make this material more readily available by extracting and reprinting those sections of the reports that seem particularly interesting, relevant and important.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA458918

Entities

People

  • Nils J. Nilsson

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Literature
  • Materials
  • Monitoring
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Security

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy