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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (486228)6/7/2009 10:48:02 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1572033
 
"The same holds with missions for surface and submarine sea vehicles on recon missions."

Air and sea, sure. Those are relatively simple environments. Surface? Not any time soon. Unless you are talking about something like the Sahara desert, you have to deal with a cluttered environment. And conventional robotic techniques break down pretty quickly. Mapping a path is a non-trivial task. And a general solution, one that can be used in urban, forested, tundra etc. environments is not even on the radar yet. As I have mentioned, even navigating a room is exceptionally tricky, and no one is firing a RPG at them. So a human is going to be needed for many functions. Patrolling a controlled perimeter, probably not. For anything more challenging? You betcha.

"Expert systems are getting better and military research is a big part of it. "

There are severe restrictions on what can be done with expert systems. It is inherent in them, no way around it. They are good for certain restricted tasks where the set of all possibilities can be evaluated and rules are written. Using fuzzy logic can help in some gray areas. But that just isn't good enough for something that is capable of exercising deadly force. Which is not to say we won't field such weapons, the history of those sort of mistakes is pretty clear.

The lab isn't a battlefield.
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