Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems and complex missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. We argue here for cheap, fast missions using large numbers of mass produced simple autonomous robots t...
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| author | Brooks, Rodney A. Flynn, Anita M. |
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| description | Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems and complex missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. We argue here for cheap, fast missions using large numbers of mass produced simple autonomous robots that are small by today's standards, perhaps 1 to 2kg. We suggest that within a few years it will be possible, at modest cost, to invade a planet with millions of tiny robots. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/60102019-04-10T17:24:42Z Fast, Cheap and Out of Control Brooks, Rodney A. Flynn, Anita M. autonomous rovers legged robots gnat robots subsumptionsarchitecture space exploration Spur-of-the-moment planetary exploration missions are within our reach. Complex systems and complex missions usually take years of planning and force launches to become incredibly expensive. We argue here for cheap, fast missions using large numbers of mass produced simple autonomous robots that are small by today's standards, perhaps 1 to 2kg. We suggest that within a few years it will be possible, at modest cost, to invade a planet with millions of tiny robots. 2004-10-04T14:35:47Z 2004-10-04T14:35:47Z 1989-12-01 AIM-1182 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6010 en_US AIM-1182 14 p. 1439431 bytes 1111758 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | autonomous rovers legged robots gnat robots subsumptionsarchitecture space exploration Brooks, Rodney A. Flynn, Anita M. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control |
| title | Fast, Cheap and Out of Control |
| title_full | Fast, Cheap and Out of Control |
| title_fullStr | Fast, Cheap and Out of Control |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fast, Cheap and Out of Control |
| title_short | Fast, Cheap and Out of Control |
| title_sort | fast cheap and out of control |
| topic | autonomous rovers legged robots gnat robots subsumptionsarchitecture space exploration |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6010 |
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