Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves 128
cylonlover writes "Engineers from the University of Southampton have developed what they say is the world's first control system for programming satellites to think for themselves. It's a cognitive software agent called sysbrain, and it allows satellites to read English-language technical documents, which in turn instruct the satellites on how to do things such as autonomously identifying and avoiding obstacles."
NLP + sEnglish != thinking (Score:5, Informative)
They're being programmed in a scripting language.
Nothing to see here (other than a web journalist who probably thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea). Move along.
Not completely impressed, sorry (Score:5, Informative)
Sysenglish is basically a program language, a
Check this:
Find your current position Pc. Define Hd as a 'heading direction'. Execute
" Hd = Pnxt-Pc; ". Detect obstacle position Obst in heading direction Hd. If Obst
is empty, then move with heading direction Hd. If Obst is not empty, then do the
following. Compute turned heading direction Hds from Hd. Detect obstacle
Found it on : http://wikibin.org/articles/senglish.html
Sorry, nice application, cool satelites, but not really, really new