CS376 Midterm Review


Format

  1. Short answer
  2. Matching
  3. Fill-in the blank
  4. Coding (short)
  5. Essay
  6. In-class (1.5 hours)
  7. Open books/open notes
Examples:

1. Match the research with the work associated with them.

1.John Hollanda.Synthetic Psychology
2.Rodney Brooksb.Prisoner's Dilemma
3.Robert Axelrodc.Intelligence is (at least partly) in the eye of the beholder
4.Valentino Braitenbergd.Intelligence without Representation
5.Douglas Blanke.Schema Theory

2. Compare and contrast Subsumption Architecture with a GA-evolved controller.

3. Describe "the law of uphill analysis and downhill invention". What does this mean to us, the robotics researchers?

4. __________________ and ____________________ and two operations that must be handled separately in the Schema Theorem.

5. How do GA's work?

6. Write a function to perform GA selection with doing any crossover.

7. Do you find Braitenberg's explaining away concepts such as "love" and "wanting" believable? Why of why not?


Materials Covered

  1. Mitchell's GA Intro
  2. Braitenberg's Vehicles
  3. IC
  4. HandyBoard
  5. Brooks' Intelligence without Representation