This paper reviews key concepts of the Autonomous Robot Architecture (AuRA). Its structure,
strengths, and roots in biology are presented. AuRA is a hybrid deliberative/reactive robotic …

Work in behavior-based systems focuses on functional modeling, that is, the synthesis of life-
like and/or biologically inspired behavior that is robust, repeatable and adaptive. Inspiration …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …

Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary
field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational …

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 Spatial Semantic Hierarchy is a model of knowledge of large-scale space consisting of
multiple interacting representations, both qualitative and quantitative. The SSH is inspired by …

This paper describes an implementation of the 3T robot architecture which has been under
development for the last eight years. The architecture uses three levels of abstraction and …

The concept of affordances was introduced by JJ Gibson to eXplain how inherent “values”
and “meanings” of things in the environment can be directly perceived and how this …

A formalism is presented for computing and organizing actions for autonomous agents in
dynamic environments. We introduce the notion of teleo-reactive (TR) programs whose …

This paper describes the main properties of behaviour-based approaches to control.
Different approaches to designing and using behaviours as basic units for control …