Artificial intelligence, human factors, robotics, and computer simulation. Foreign trip report, August 2, 1990-August 22, 1990.

摘要

Traveler was invited to participate in information exchange between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and CISC/JAERI on four topics: Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors, robotics, and computer simulation. This exchange took the form of 9 (2-hour) lectures presented by traveler on work done in CS&HF Group, and four presentations by Japanese for traveler's edification. Seven of traveler's lectures were to CISC/JAERI, one to Toshiba Corporation, and one to the AI Steering Committee of JAERI. There was also a presentation by Toshiba Corporation on HF work connected with their Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) control room. Final discussion between traveler and JAERI personnel concerned an umbrella agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) permitting researcher exchange similar to nuclear researchers. Conclusions are: the US has definite advantages in most areas of AI progress; the Japanese are creating a Monte Carlo radiation dose calculation simulation which will operate at the level of radiating particles (neutrons) with doses calculated for all major organ systems of humans, and major circuits for robots; they are gaining experience in creating major integrated simulations of human/robot activity in a nuclear reactor; and that it would be advantageous for us to have a formal agreement permitting scientists to visit there for more than 15 days at a time.