<div dir="ltr">David,<div> It will be interesting how the garden weeder robot pans out. The $250 cost point would make it affordable enough for a home owner. I am not so interested in gardening, however I would be interested in a unit that kept my shrubbery beds clean of weeds and secondary scrub suckers. It would have to ride over mulch and eliminate non-scrub/flowers targets. Keeping landscape beds clean is a major nuisance.</div><div><br></div><div> I have both of those books on my shelves. I found them when I used to search Half Price books for interesting books. Amazon has them available at reasonable cost. Both are very good reads and excellent references. The Joesph Jones book shows up in a lot of college lectures, but is also suitable for the hobbyist roboticist. It is my favorite of the two.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a link to an MIT lecture about the same topic. <a href="http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.189/fall2005/pub/lectures/Releases/2005_09_08_lecture2.pdf">http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.189/fall2005/pub/lectures/Releases/2005_09_08_lecture2.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Doug P.</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:20 AM, David Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davida@smu.edu" target="_blank">davida@smu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hey, DPRG! Anybody out there? <br>
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Joe Jones is starting a kick-starter campaign for a roomba-style
robot to weed your garden:<br>
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<a class="m_1324130364783772588moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-your-garden/" target="_blank"><https://www.technologyreview.<wbr>com/s/602836/a-roomba-for-<wbr>your-garden/></a><br>
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You may remember Joesph Jones as the author of "Behavior Based
Robotics", which at one time we had in the DPRG library, back when
we had a library:<br>
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<a class="m_1324130364783772588moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Programming-Practical-Behavior-Based-Robotics/dp/0071427783" target="_blank"><https://www.amazon.com/Robot-<wbr>Programming-Practical-<wbr>Behavior-Based-Robotics/dp/<wbr>0071427783></a><br>
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as well as, with Anita Flynn, the classic "Mobile Robots" <br>
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<a class="m_1324130364783772588moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Robots-Inspiration-Implementation-Second/dp/1568810970" target="_blank"><https://www.amazon.com/<wbr>Mobile-Robots-Inspiration-<wbr>Implementation-Second/dp/<wbr>1568810970></a><br>
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which was my first introduction to subsumption. I still have my
original edition, (although my memory is that he was very unhappy
with the second edition, which was published without his input or
approval).<br>
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cheers!<br>
dpa<br>
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