http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US8468209 patent on “Method of rescinding previously transmitted e-mail messages”! Is this something that should be allowed to be patented? Doesn’t google have a labs feature that does this?
Price of Anarchy
I am using Bounties as a distributed approach to assigning tasks and developing roles for robots in a multi-robot system. I am trying to figure out a good learning algorithm that will get good results for this system that will scale and be general. Therefore, since I’m not that smart I have to learn about… Continue reading Price of Anarchy
Bounties are Prisoners Dillema
For my CS880 project I’m making a bounty system that will hopefully enable robots to learn what roles they should do. I’m currently going to try providing robots a tit-for-tat (or some variation of it) to learn what tasks to do. I think this method might be good since in a real life scenario we… Continue reading Bounties are Prisoners Dillema
Adaptive Checkout Lights
[written in October 2013 but decided to publish now] I think it would be awesome if checkout lights could be more useful. For example, if the light would change color depending on how full the line was. So, it could be red if it was really full, yellow if a little full, and green if… Continue reading Adaptive Checkout Lights
EMF in pipes and Mixing in Space
I was thinking that it would be cool experiment to try to see how much current would be produced by flushing magnetic particles through a system of pipes that were wrapped with wire and connected to batteries. Wonder how powerful the magnets would need to be and how the fact that they are traveling in… Continue reading EMF in pipes and Mixing in Space
Trash Water Sewer oh my
Well, I was thinking that a fun multirobotics project would be to have robots that were trash cans and their goals would be: Minimize expected time to find a trashcan Stay out of the way When full empty into “dumpster” or something Stay charged Minimal movement (don’t move when someone is using it) (Some sort… Continue reading Trash Water Sewer oh my
Repairmen and Trees
I think I have finally found a problem that has not been studied and is important. I’m calling it the K-D-Traveling Repairman Problem. K, the number of repairmen, D, the number of types of repairmen. The repairman problem is a NP-hard problem and therefore heurstics are used to solve it. The Predictics group at CMU… Continue reading Repairmen and Trees
Lua coroutines
http://www.lua.org/pil/9.1.html is a nice intro on how to use coroutines in lua. Using them for communication with the Darwins and Horde to transfer the features that horde is using to learn.
lua package.path
http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/package.path package.path and also has a link to package.cpath explanation for lua.
Bribes
Another idea is to use bribes to manipulate the system http://mpref2012.lip6.fr/proceedings/MaranMPREF2012.pdf show how to resist bribery. Can we use what they learned and instead use bribes for good as a means of inducing cooperation? The problem trying to solve is how to bring about cooperation of self-interested agents when the only/main reason they would help… Continue reading Bribes