Experiences Looking for Niches

Lessons Learned from Implemented Software Architectures for Physical Agents

Volume

Papers from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

I've worked on over a dozen different robot systems whose software control architecture ranged from nonexistent [4] to ponderous [2]. For the past many years, I along with several others, have been developing a layered architecture that joins reactive control with more traditional symbolic reasoning [6]. I believe that this architecture is the right way to go to create physical agents that can carry out a large variety of complex tasks in realistic environments.