Paper:
Incorporating Motivation in a Hybrid Robot Architecture
Alexander Stoytchev, and Ronald C. Arkin
Mobile Robot Laboratory, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280, U.S.A.
This paper describes a hybrid mobile robot architecture that addresses three main challenges for robots living in human-inhabited environments: how to operate in dynamic and unpredictable environment, how to deal with high-level human commands, and how to engage human users. The architecture combines three components: deliberative planning, reactive control, and motivational drives. It has been proven useful for controlling mobile robots in man-made environments. Results are reported for a fax delivery mission in a normal office environment.
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