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This paper describes a codesign environment based on the WWW (World Wide Web) and its implementation. Tool invocations and their respective results are linked using hypertext documents. We show how to configure a WWW browser for spawning design tools and how frequent tasks like documentation generation and retrieval are facilitated. The design flow can be adopted to the given application very easily. In addition we introduce the concept of a work flow called ‘design by documentation’. A WWW link to the results is given and experience using it in a codesign project is described.
Cognitive robotics aims at understanding biological processes, though it has also the potential to improve future robotics systems. Here we show how a biologically inspired model of motor control with neural fields can be augmented with additional components such that it is able to solve a basic robotics task, that of obstacle avoidance. While obstacle avoidance is a well researched area, the focus here is on the extensibility of a biologically inspired framework. This work demonstrates how easily the biological inspired system can be used to adapt to new tasks. This flexibility is thought to be a major hallmark of biological agents.