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6. Odometry
This chapter has been devoted to some interesting application-con-
cepts for the AAR-robot. The ideas refer to studies and art-projects.
Maybe developing such software will inspire us in programming
micro-controllers.
6.1 Line-seekers, color-lovers and color-haters
Light-sensitive sensors will allow us to program robots to be-
have like line-seekers, color-lovers or color-haters. In the first o
these examples the robot should be expected to follow a line in an
8-shaped curve, which in an endless loop will force it to run around
eternally.
The second and third example teaches the robot to avoid red light
sources and maybe feel attracted by green light simultaneously.
These kind of behavior patterns already will be considered as practi-
cal survival patterns for simple living organisms such as worms.
6.2 Cowards and music-lovers
Quite interesting is also a behavior pattern which depends on envi-
ronmental noise. A jumpy robot equipped with a sensitive micropho-
ne may be taught to avoid heavy base music but simultaneously be
attracted by high-toned flute-music. The attraction of high frequen -
cies may even override the fear for heavy low frequencies. This way
the robot may be forced to feel attracted by the source of the high
flute-music in spite of the heavy-metall music.
Behavior patterns which depend on high and low frequencies, light
and colors merely need a few sensors, two frequency filters and a
couple of light-dependent sensors, equipped with color filters.