"The Autonomous robot vehicle (1938)" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Dec 2014 12:44 p.m. PST |
"Experiments with electromechanical computers (« endomécanique ») carried out in 1938 by Mr François Dussaud. Dussaud ordered from SATME, a company building railroad equipment) an « endomechanical » truck.
This vehicle was controlled by a programmable automaton using two separate perforated bands of paper constituting "separate memories" (the word "memory" is used in the 1938 text but in my opinion "program" would be more appropriate…although program must be stocked in a memory) which alternated according to information supplied by the front bumper or a photo-electric sensor.
This true mechanical computer enabled the vehicle to follow a pre-determined path (the base program which enabled such functions as "start, stop, move away, move back, hoot") or upon sensing an obstacle to avoid it (using the alternate program)…"
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| Privateer4hire | 27 Dec 2014 12:14 p.m. PST |
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