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CSMARRT. Group 10 Cameron Kinard Leaundre Zeno Megan Wiedmaier Heath Carley . What is CSMARRT?. Creative, Self-Learning, Multi Sensory, Adaptive, Reconfigurable, Robotics Toolbox
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CSMARRT Group 10 Cameron Kinard Leaundre Zeno Megan Wiedmaier Heath Carley
What is CSMARRT? • Creative, Self-Learning, Multi Sensory, Adaptive, Reconfigurable, Robotics Toolbox • A new neural technology being developed for the US military but also shows promise for civilian application. • The software is designed to be used in robots giving them the ability to learn, develop, and adapt.
What is CSMARRT? • Software allows robots to carry out physical operations and overcome challenges that arise during the operation. • CSMARRT utilizes Creativity Machine, a special form of a neural network, as a basis for problem solving.
Who developed it? • CSMARRT is being developed for the Air Force Research Laboratory by a company called Imagination Engines Inc. (IEI). • IEI is a small company, founded by Stephen Thaler, specializing in synthetic intelligence. • The project is driven by software created by Thaler.
What does it do? • The Creativity Machine Paradigm gives CSMARRT the ability to generate new ideas from existing information. • This type of software is a new evolution of neural network used to produce an output function. • The software is written in a new form of XML called Robotic Markup Language (RML). • This allows designers to tailor the robot to a specific purpose.
Special Features • Special to neural networks is the use of perturbations to agitate existing information and arrive at new ideas. • Perturbations are the source or trigger that stimulates the Creative Machine into new ideas. • To take those new ideas and compare it to existing knowledge so that the unusable information can be filtered out and discarded.
More About Creativity Machines • Creativity Machines learn from their mistakes and create and execute strategies to overcome these mistakes. • The important issue as it applies to CSMARRT is that Creativity Machine neural networks are capable of generating solutions opposed to only recognizing patterns.
What has it done? • The project has already shown impressive results. The software has written music, discovered minerals, and designed soft drinks. • In early testing, Thaler claims the software evaluates a situation and finds a quick solution to the task at hand.
CSMARRT In Progress • A test robot adopted a two-legged gait rising up on its hind legs so that it could move faster when necessary. • In simulations the robots grouped together in order to overcome obstacles. • They worked in teams to map their environment and strategically derived quick and effective ways to overcome these obstacles.
Military Work • The military hopes to use this problem solving software in robots that can carry out particular missions ranging from projected scenario results to long range tactical searches. • The military wants to utilize the robots in missions similar to the operations in Afghanistan.
Military Work • They would be sent out to explore underground bunkers, map facilities, and identify what is in them. • It will have the ability to eliminate human involvement in very dangerous search missions, thus saving lives. • The robots would also be able to go into areas that a human could not.
Military Work • This innovative new technology will allow the military to do things with robots that could not previously be done. • CSMARRT gives the robots the flexibility to enter an area and deal with unknown obstacles without human control.
