Publication Details

Research and Applications - Artificial Intelligence

by Raphael, B.

Technical Report
Institution: Stanford Research Institute
November 1970.

Note: Project 8259 Final Report
From the Nilsson archives – SHAKEY papers

This is the final report for the most recent year of a continuing program of research in the field of artificial intelligence. This work follows previous projects that resulted in the design, construction, and demonstration of a “first generation” robot system. The work reported here consists of new research aimed at the development of a more sophisticated “second generation” robot. Although the robot vehicle itself will be essentially unchanged, it will be controlled by a completely new computer hardware and software system. In particular, this report contains detailed descriptions of the computer configuration and the bottom-level software design, two new bases for problem-solving systems (called STRIPS and QA4) , and new directions in visual scene-analysis techniques.

Includes as appendicies

• “Computer Configuration” by Leonard J. Chaitin.
• “Bottom-Level PDP-10 Software for the SRI Robot” by John H. Munson. AIC Technical Note 35. August 1970.
• “The Frame Problem in Problem-Solving Systems” by Bertram Raphael. AIC Technical Note 33. June 1970.
• AIC Technical Note 43: “STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving to Problem Solving” by Nils J. Nilsson and Richard E. Fikes. October 1970.
• AIC Technical Note 42: “QA4 Working Paper” by Johns F. Rulifson, Richard J. Waldinger, Jan Dereksen. October 1970
• AIC Technical Note 46: “Some Current Techniques for Scene Analysis” by Richard O. Duda. October 1970.