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Braitenberg Vehicle #1: Getting Around

Braitenberg Vehicle 1 is stimulated by light, making it move faster as it approaches the light source.

Click anywhere in the canvas to position the vehicle at that point.

See Braitenbot #1: Getting Around for more info.

See Braitenberg, V. (1984). Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

"Once you let friction come into the picture, other amazing things might happen. As the vehicle pushes forward against frictional forces, it will deviate from its course. In the long run it will be seen to move in a complicated trajectory, curving one way or the other without apparent good reason. If it is very small, its motion will be quite erratic, similar to 'Brownian motion', only with a certain drive added."

Valentino Braitenberg

Source code: Vehicles

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