Profile of a Winner: Georgia Tech

CLARK's arm was ripped off midway NOMAD 150 robots (shown in the photograph). From left to right: Tucker Balch, Juan Carlos Santamaria, and Tom Collins. Noise helps move the robot out of any local minima it encounters. In this manner, behaviors were developed for each stage of the task, for example, wander, acquire_red, acquire_blue, predock_red, predock_blue, deliver_red, and deliver_blue. The control systems sequence from one behavior to another based on perceptual cues provided by the sensors.