lect 4

Question 1

What is the difference between autonomy and automation?

Answer 1

Automation: Physically situated tools, performing highly repetetive pre planned actions for well modeled task, under closed world assumption.

Autonomy: Pyhsically situated agents, who do not perform only actions but can also adapt to the open world where the environment and tasks are not known priori

Question 2

Why does it matter that there is a difference between automation and autonomy?

Answer 2

This difference affects the:
Hardware Design : Autonomy requires higher sensing in order to monitor the key elements of the dynamic world.
Prgoramming style: For automation, focus is on formal stable control loops where for autonomy, the focus is artificial intelligence.
Kind of failures : It affects how the system breaks.