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Braitenberg vehicle

A Braitenberg vehicle is an imaginary robot or creature used as the subject of a thought experiment to study embodied cognition. It was introduced by the Italian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg in his 1984 book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. In the thought experiment, a vehicle equipped with sensors and actuators moves through a…

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Braitenberg vehicleis aimaginary robot or creature used as the subject of a thought experiment to study embodied cognition0.90text
Braitenberg vehicleis aautonomous agent that moves through its environment based on sensory input0.90text
pursuit or avoidance are achieved by differential steering based on sensory inputinstance ofwhere orienting behaviors0.80text
odorinstance ofRobotics researchers have used the idea to develop robots that can autonomously orient toward or away from stimuli0.80text
soundinstance ofRobotics researchers have used the idea to develop robots that can autonomously orient toward or away from stimuli0.80text
such as in path planninginstance ofRobotics researchers have used the idea to develop robots that can autonomously orient toward or away from stimuli0.80text
humans playing musicinstance ofBraitenberg studied the cerebellum to understand its role in complex timing behaviors0.80text
non-monotonicityinstance ofand nonlinearities in the stimulus-motor activation0.80text
sensory thresholdinginstance ofand nonlinearities in the stimulus-motor activation0.80text
Memristive wiresinstance ofvehicle-inspired robots have been constructed from materials0.80text
moleculesinstance ofvehicle-inspired robots have been constructed from materials0.80text
Braitenberg vehiclerelated to External linksValentino Braitenberg's0.60section

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