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Experiences with an architecture for intelligent, reactive agents

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Intelligent Agents II Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL 1995)

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This paper briefly describes a robot architecture that has been under development for the last eight years. This architecture uses several levels of abstraction and description languages that are compatible between levels. The makeup of the architecture helps to coordinate planful activities with real-time behaviors for dealing with dynamic environments. In recent years, many architectures have been created with similar attributes. The two features that distinguish this architecture from most of those are: 1) a variety of useful software tools have been created to help implement this architecture on multiple real robots; and 2) this architecture, or parts of it have been implemented on over half a dozen very different robot systems using a variety of processors, operating systems, effectors and sensor suites.

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  1. Metrica, Inc. Robotics and Automation Group, NASA Johnson Space Center - ER4, 77058, Houston, TX

    R. Peter Bonasso & David Kortenkamp

  2. The MITRE Corporation - MS Z421, 7525 Colshire Drive, 22102, Mclean, VA

    David P. Miller & Marc Slack

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Bonasso, R.P., Kortenkamp, D., Miller, D.P., Slack, M. (1996). Experiences with an architecture for intelligent, reactive agents. In: Wooldridge, M., Müller, J.P., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents II Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1037. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540608052_67

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