Robotics Potential Fields

Stress Fields and Electric Potential in Piezoelectric Cylinders

Stress Fields and Electric Potential in Piezoelectric Cylinders

Potential Fields Tutorial

Rodney Brooks introduced the concept of reactive robotics, often referred to as behavior-based robotics, wherein robot architectures are built on activity-generating building blocks rather than on centralized representations and deductive logic. You will soon be familiar with these concepts when you read the paper by Brooks, Intelligence without Representation which we will discuss next time. I...

Wavelet analysis of potential fields

It is shown how a continuous wavelet technique may be used to locate and characterize homogeneous point sources from the field they generate measured in a distant hyperplane. For this a class of wavelets is introduced on which the Poisson semi-group essentially acts as a dilation.

Cosmic scalar fields with flat potential ∗

The dynamics of cosmic scalar fields with flat potential is studied. Their contribution to the expansion rate of the universe is analyzed, and their behaviour in a simple model of phase transitions is discussed. ∗Work supported by the research program FP52 of the Foundation for Fundamental Research of Matter (FOM). ∗∗e-mail: [email protected] The universe is observed to expand [1], and this ex...