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In this paper we present a concise analysis of the requirements for effective action selection, and a centralized action selection model that fulfills most of these requirements. In this model, action selection occurs by combining sensory information from the non-homogenous sensors of an off-the-shelf robot with the feedback from competing behavioral modules. In order to successfully clean an arena, the animal robot (animat) has to present a coherent overall behavior pattern for both appropriate selection and termination of a selected behavior type. In the same way, an animat set in a chasing task has to present opportunist action selection to locate the nearest target. In consequence, both an appropriate switching of behavior patterns and a coherent overall behavior pattern are necessary for effective action selection.
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González, F.M.M., Hernández, A.M., Figueroa, H.R. (2006). An Effective Robotic Model of Action Selection. In: Marín, R., Onaindía, E., Bugarín, A., Santos, J. (eds) Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence. CAEPIA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11881216_14
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