Experiences with an architecture for intelligent, reactive agents
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
- Vol. 9 (2-3), 237-256
- https://doi.org/10.1080/095281397147103
Abstract
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 description languages which are compatible between levels. The makeup of the architecture helps to coordinate planful activities with real-time behaviours for dealing with dynamic environments. In recent years, other architectures have been created with similar attributes but two features distinguish the 3T architecture: (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 a variety of very different robot systems using different processors, operating systems, effectors and sensor suites.Keywords
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