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At the completion of our present project in August 1969, we will have
assembled a complex automaton system composed of some hardware and a large
amount of programs integrated together to control a simple vehicle in a realistic environment. The construction of the initial system and our experiments with it provide us with an excellent base from which we can
make further progress in automata research. The goal of this research is
to learn about processes controlling a vehicle that can .interact with its
environment to perform useful tasks. The results of previous research are
well documented in a series of reports and papers and this outline
will describe the essential features of our proposed program for next year.
For purposes of discussion, the proposed work can be divided into four
major parts. Three of these are: (1) problem-solving, (2) representation
or modeling, and (3) sensory perception. The fourth is the integration
of results in these three areas into one complete automaton system.
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