Knowledge, Understanding, and Behavior

Abstract

What does it mean to know something? What is understanding? How does understanding influence behavior? These are philosophical questions that have occupied the best human minds since the time of the ancient Greeks. Only in the last 50 years have scientists been able to address these issues with empirical methods. Only in the last decade has the computational power become widely available to pursue these questions beyond the domain of toy problems. Recent results in the field of autonomous ground vehicles are yielding insights into how to acquire and structure knowledge so as to produce intelligent behavior in the domain of autonomous ground vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 04, 2003
Accession Number
ADP021346

Entities

People

  • James Albus

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Brain
  • Cognitive Science
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computational Processes
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Language
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Neurosciences
  • Reasoning
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design