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Architecture for Hybrid Robotic Behavior

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Software architectures for agent technology and robots have been polarized between reactive architectures and architectures based on planning and reasoning. Although hybrid architectures have been shown to offer benefits from both, these seem complicated to integrate. In this paper we integrate the reactive nature of finite state machines and the reasoning capabilities of non-monotonic logics to produce intelligent autonomous robots. In particular, we demonstrate this with a robotic poker player. The robotic player integrates vision, sound recognition, motion control and the reasoning to perform competitively as a player in a complex game with incomplete information.

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  1. ICT/IIIS, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia

    David Billington, René Hexel & Andrew Rock

  2. Visiting Scholar, Universitat Popeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Vladimir Estivill-Castro

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  1. Grupo de Investigación GICAP, Área de Lenguajes Higher Polytechnic School, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, 33 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT, USA

    Xindong Wu

  3. Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5400, 02015 HUT, Finland

    Erkki Oja

  4. Grupo de Investigación GICAP, Área de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Campus Vena, Francisco de Vitoria, 09006, Burgos, Spain

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Billington, D., Estivill-Castro, V., Hexel, R., Rock, A. (2009). Architecture for Hybrid Robotic Behavior. In: Corchado, E., Wu, X., Oja, E., Herrero, Á., Baruque, B. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. HAIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5572. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02319-4_18

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