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| author | Hur |
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I'll be honest, I picked this up because of the cover endorsement from Celeste Ng. |
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Applications of AI Memo 864
The paper, properly titled “A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot”, describes a control system architecture based on layers of competency. Each layer consists of a series of modules, interconnected finite state machines that together achieve a high-level goal. Each higher competency is stacked upon the those below it and can override their inputs and outputs. In this design, adding a higher layer does not require modifications to the lower ones.
I am interested in exploring applications of this idea to other autonomous systems (not necessarily robotic in nature).