The Braitenberg Vehicles

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This video explores the world of simple logical robots as described by Valentino Braitenberg in his book Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. With very simple linkages between sensors and actuators you can develop robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behaviors.
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[@Chr0nalis]

These types of topics are much more interesting than classical control theory.

[@SecretCollage]

Thank you Brain, you have such deep knowledge with complex subjects. Extremely glad to have found you on Utube!!!

[@nrdesign1991]

I found the term Braitenberg through browsing a 23 year old university website on robot navigation, remembered "mousey the junkbot" from my youth, read a little about Braitenberg and then later just searched for Braitenberg vehicles on KZbin. This is downright fascinating.

[@LithiumLogica]

BEAM Robotics. Super simple robots that exhibit emergent behaviors depending on their component properties and how they interact with the environment. Neurons and neural nets. Really neat stuff.

[@dilaturkmen2941]

I guess watching this video made me understand the deep learning principle better. “The notion of depth in a neural network is linked to the idea that you can express something complicated by doing many simple things in sequence”. I think this really makes sense with what Braintenberg demonstrates.

[@dkdatiger]

Currently taking a mechatronics class and that op-amp vehicle circuit is exactly something I want to try to build with what I learned! Thanks for the information as always!

[@tylersakimoto4725]

Fantastic video, as per usual. It was nice to hear about some robotics stuff that didn't directly pertain to control systems. Thanks for your consistently awesome videos!

[@emiliotanowe4323]

While studying Digital Signal Processing (digital filters, Fourier and Wavelet transforms, etc) my professor also used to say that "synthesis is easier than analysis"

[@CSharpa]

This is a great video.I am an mechatronics engineering student and we recently learned about this stuff.This video comes as a recap.Thank you

[@mousaalsaeed9410]

The best video I've watched on youtube

[@hollowbats]

Thank you Mr. Douglas. This whole idea of running away from light and imitating a bug on a microcontroller is severely awesome! :-D Vielen Dank!

[@oogalook]

My God, sir. This is the most beautiful, the most moving piece of engineering thought I've ever seen. Thank you.

[@hadijf4294]

magnificent, the way how you explained to link emotion to the way of controlling the interaction of the report was amazing

[@mhz7799]

Your channel is one of inspirations am doing my thesis in control. awesome work.

[@a.j.alriyadh2699]

Brian, thank you for the video and the book recommendation. i loved the concept. two things i wanna suggest for future videos. 1) programming the arduino theoughout simulink is a lot more interactive than coding i think. Mathworks have their own free arduino support package. 2) i am currently working on neural networks and i think it is really interesting to explore such an amazing control systems tool and educate others about it. i always look up for ur videos and i am thinking about starting my own inspired-by-you channel. love and respect. AJ

[@BrianBDouglas]

+abduljaleel alriyadh Thanks for the suggestions and for the kind words. I would encourage you to start your own channel, it's a great way to share your knowledge to anyone who is interested. When you post your first video let me know and I'll get the word out about it. Cheers!

[@a.j.alriyadh2699]

+Brian Douglas thanks for getting back to me. wanted to mention that i teach control systems at Idaho state university and couple of weeks ago i played one of your videos in class and told students that i learned controls from u and that everyone who interested in controls should keep in mind visiting ur channel. just thought i will let u know. best wishes.

[@quantumresonance8201]

Brian is gift to the World!

[@johnodonnell2495]

Brilliant Brian! That was a great tutorial and really sparked some thought. Can't wait for next video

[@SyedRizvii]

Now that's awesome, loved the theory and application.

[@AgnaldoC]

I always wait for a new video. Let's watch it then

[@Rawrieshizzle]

Your explanation is by far the best, and so cute to follow! Making it fun and easy to listen to. Thank you - very helpful :)

[@LAUANGIU]

I have read this book 35 years ago. Very very interesting. And your video is also very interesting. Do you have a video with other types of vehicles?

[@SuperAnotherUser]

Nice. I loved this book, and have thought about doing this for a long time, happy to see it!

[@satychary]

Fantastic video, idea, and explanations :)

[@pixiepurls]

This is pretty wild, thanks for such a lovely simplified explanation to a concept that is new to me!

[@eddietowers5595]

Great video I use some of the same concepts, without programmable chips, and is based on Mark Tildens BEAM Bots which uses logic chips, of course, to do the same functions, though I use it as a learning tool for friends and family

[@mnada72]

Thanks, as usual another great video.

[@rfernand2]

Awesome treatment! I am half way thru book and was wondering if anyone had animated or built some of the robots. Beautiful job!

[@jams8728]

your channel is amazing

[@kitsbits5002]

Brilliantly explained and perfectly demonstrated thank you for sharing

[@davidd.purington7915]

Good video, easy to understand. It makes you think in laymens terms

[@Rnjeazy]

Hey Brian, I'm really interested in learning how robots work in a swarm. Would be really helpful if you could make some videos in the subject of swarm robotics. Thanks! :)

[@aistartupfren]

Thank you Master Brian

[@davidliddelow5704]

This was a lovely charming video but a thought occurs to me. If we take these simple proportional controllers as exhibiting an emotion or goal, then we also have to accept that other things have the same feelings. But then again, humans and other animals evolved only to survive and reproduce. Sentience must be a byproduct of existence or it would not have evolved at all.

[@trialen]

+David Liddelow Unless sentience enhances the ability to survive in some way.

[@marcelodtrevisani]

Your lessons are awesome! I suggest you to make a lesson about state space, it's an interesting topic in control engineering! Regarding from Brazil !

[@aistartupfren]

this just made my day

[@AV1461]

Nice! 15.02 The Agressive meets the Lover.

[@LIVERPOOLFRANK]

Amazing indeed!

[@zikomo8913]

Amazing!

[@eggrute]

They look so lovely.

[@sleepyhead444]

Hi Brian! This was a wonderful video, thank you so much for creating it! I am curious about the robots you demonstrated at the end. One of the robots seems to exhibit selectivity in its 'love' and keeps docking to a specific robot when faced with the option of two, if I am not wrong. What programming logic did you use to make the robot exhibit that kind of behavior?

[@user-xf3ok4sh4o]

Щоразу чекаю новий відос про альткоїни, але все ніяк! Сподіваюся, він скоро все ж з'явиться

[@1220metalero]

fucking awesome! Brian you are the best channel I have ever followed.

[@manamuncher3994]

this video was AWESOME i actually learned something usefull :)

[@nasim3269]

The great thing is that those robots could be made without a microcontroller! You could just do it with a simple circuit.

[@MarcoJFJunior]

Excelent! Arduino's awesome... Great video! Ty...

[@BenOmarbaOmar]

awesome mate :)

[@saigovindaraonimmalapudi462]

Love it!!

[@enigma4174]

I am here for automation class at D39C

[@enigma4174]

HARAMBE NANEH ROblox rule 34 memerz

[@mikeli9941]

Give some lectures about model reduction or robust control, having tough time on those subjects, just cannot understand the boring math forms. Maybe you know how to demonstrate!!!!

[@Lanny2010]

Potential fields....

[@owenhe5070]

Hi, can you tell me which software you are running to draw all of these? Is it smoothdraw?

[@myperspective5091]

I am design a animal behavior robot and I like your recommendation.

[@luchadorito]

I dont even code or anything, why was this in my recommended? My immediate thought to the final video of multiple robots interacting is that given a specific enough trigger like a particular colour of light to react to simple robots could perform compicated tasks and works as a swarm in a domestic enviroment

[@godofbiscuitssf]

Maybe stop calling it "AI" because it's still really just Searle's version of "ML"? You can still grant Cole and everyone else their critiques of Searle, but there's no AI in there doing semantics. There's no "book" big enough or comprehensive enough to statically cover a predestinate set of answers. Plus? You should have spent more time on the Vehicles book. :)

[@eduardomiranda5601]

very boring

[@DeveshT]

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[@hadijf4294]

magnificent, the way how you explained to link emotion to the way of controlling the interaction of the report was amazing