Say you had a robot with a Linux kernel and directory structure, could one "teach" such a robot some action by feeding parralle inputs to the physical bot and the computer, where the computer stores the input as a binary in the file structure to be accessed as required. Just add 52.
I think they do this with some automated manufacturing robot arms and things.
What they do is have an identical (or scaled down) replica of the robot's arm, with feedback sensors but no motors, and lightweight enough to be manipulated by hand. During programming, the sensory feedback from the training replica arm is passed to the actual arm, which mimics the action exactly, and the training operator uses the arm to walk the system through one complete production cycle, the complete list of motor commands and relevant sensor feedback being logged by the computer. The training arm is then disconnected, and the computer attempts to reproduce the sequence repeatedly in full production. Obviously, if this were all that was needed, a computer would be overkill, and a signal record and playback system would be enough. However, it is quite possible to then add error-correction algorithms and things to the computer so that, say if the arm overshoots, it can recover the correct sequence and not end up performing its actions relative to an incorrect origin after that point, for example.
Theoretically, even more complex artificial intelligence could be added to analyse the required actions and improve on the original set of motions, or come up with a better process altogether...
Tom
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