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#Underwater Robot created by MIT will Plan their Own Missions and adapt them Very Soon, there is going to be a robot that will have the ability to execute and plan its missions in deep seas and oceans. Researchers at Massachusetts institute of technology developed this robot that has its own ognitiveabilities. When deploying a AUVS (autonomous underwater vehicles), much of engineer time is spent writing scripts or low-level commands in order to direct a robot to carry out a plan of mission. The MIT has developed a new programming approach that in enabling the robots to perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals. The new programming approaches developed by MIT engineer enables robots perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals. For example, an engineer could provides a robot a listing of goal locations to explore, in conjunction with any time constraints, furthermore as physical directions, like staying an explicit distance higher than the seafloor. Using the system devised by the university team, the robot will then set out on a mission, selecting the locations to explore, in what order, at intervals a given timeframe. If an unforeseen event prevents the robot from finishing a task, it will like better to drop that task, or reconfigure the hardware to get over a failure, on the fly. Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions, and adapt, execute, and re-plan them alone, without any human support, By giving robots control of higher-level decision-making would free engineers to have confidence overall strategy. Such a system might additionally scale back the scale of the operational team required on analysis cruises, he added. ou might send ocean vessels that send one autonomous vehicle; however that does not show you lots. This technology can give entire new ways to observe the ocean, that is exciting, he added during a report appeared within the university Technology Review n

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