CS4630 Intelligent Robotics and Perception

Study questions for mid-term exam

Out: Fri Feb 8

The test will cover chapters 1-5 in the book as well as lecture
material.  The lecture slides will be up on the web later today.
You should be familiar with the questions below as well as the
take home quiz questions.

Chapter 1 Exercises

1.2
1.3
1.7

Chapter 2 Exercises

2.1
2.2
2.6

Chapter 3 Exercises

Why use biology as a source of ideas for programming robots?
3.2
3.5

Chapter 4 Exercises

4.1
4.4
4.14
4.18 a and b (do this by drawing arrows on a 10x10 graph)

Chapter 5 Exercises

5.3
5.6

From in class discussion

Know A* cold.

Why is it that a fixed group of behaviors won't normally work for a 
complex robotic task?

There are at least two ways to specify when a robot should switch 
between active groups of behaviors: a policy and a sequence (or FSA).   
A policy specifies a look-up table kind of mapping between situations 
and actions.  Why not always use policies?  Are there tasks or problems 
that sequencing can solve that policies can't?