A research project applying artificial intelligence techniques to the development of
integrated robot systems Is described. The experimental facility consists of an SDS-940 …

Mobile robots, if they are to perform useful tasks and become accepted in open
environments, must be fully autonomous. Autonomy has many different aspects; here the …

A representation for robot plans is proposed. The representation of a given plan reflects the
structure of the process which produced the plan. This information is useful in both the …

This paper discusses issues related to the design of the control architectures for an
autonomous mobile robot capable of performing tasks efficiently and intelligently, ie in a …

This paper describes a novel approach to high-level robot programming based on a highly
developed logica] theory of action. The user provides a specification of the robot's basic …

The creation of intelligent robots is surely one of the most exciting and ch-lenginggoals of
Arti? cial Intelligence. A robot is,? rst of all, nothing but an inanimate machine with motors …

Mobile robots, if they are to perform useful tasks and become accepted in open
environments, must be autonomous: capable of acquiring information and performing tasks …

A long-standing goal of AI is to enable robots to plan in the face of uncertain and incomplete
information, and to handle task failure intelligently. This paper shows how to achieve this …

In the mid-1980's Rodney Brooks touched off a firestorm of interest in autonomous robots
with the introduction of the Subsumption architecture1 [Brooks86]. At the time, the dominant …

The industrial robot's principal advantage over traditional automation is programmability.
Robots can perform arbitrary sequences of pre-stored motions or of motions computed as …