Reactive robotic systems

摘要

representational knowledge is avoided. Creating and maintaining accurate representations of the world is a time-consuming error-prone process. Purely reactive systems do not maintain world models, instead reacting directly to the stimuli the world presents. This is particularly useful in highly dynamic and hazardous worlds, where the environment is unpredictable and potentially hostile. 3. Animal models of behavior are often used as a basis for these systems. Models from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and ethology are used to capture the nature of the behaviors that are necessary for a robot's safe interaction with a hostile world. Reactive Robotic Systems 3 4. Demonstrable robotic results have been achieved. These techniques have been applied to a wide range of robots including six-legged walking robots, pipe-crawling robots, robots for indoor/outdoor activities, mobile manipulators, dextrous hands, and entire herds of mobile robots. As these systems are highly modular, they...