Adaptive

<Top level summary, most common definitions for adaptive>

Within the robotics community, the term adaptive may or may not imply on-board decision making beyond the most simple sense/act decisions.

In current parlance, it is often used to refer to a robot that modifies the parameters of its algorithms in response to its environment (ref. learning)

History

<Summary of the history of the term - how the definition has changed over time>

In the mid-1980s, "adaptive" referred to a robot that adapts its behavior to its environment (ref. reactive; historical use of adaptive from industrial robotics community, mid-1980s)

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Contextual Uses

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Other Definitions

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